I am the Emperor of the Nine Layered Heavens of the Myriad Domain! My decree is so vast that in this world, there is no one who dares to disobey it! This was the story of an ordinary boy like Lin Dong growing up to become the Nine Heavens Emperor! Experts were as numerous as the clouds, and they could also be seen how Lin Dong managed to carve a path through countless geniuses and powerhouses! If a beauty falls in love, how could the main character choose?
In the 1890s, young cocksure Theodore Roosevelt, years before the White House, was appointed police commissioner of corrupt, pleasure-loving New York, then teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, illegal casinos and all-night dance halls. The Harvard-educated Roosevelt, with a reformer’s zeal, tried to wipe out the city’s vice and corruption. He went head-to-head with Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles looking for derelict cops, banned barroom drinking on Sundays and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. The city rebelled big time; cartoonists lampooned him on the front page; his own political party abandoned him but Roosevelt never backed down. Island of Vice delivers a rollicking narrative history of Roosevelt’s embattled tenure, pitting the seedy against the saintly, and the city against its would-be savior.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs
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ISBN: LOC:00186595324
Category: United States Virgin Islands
Page: 148
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Considers H.R. 8534 and similar H.R. 8535, H.R. 8536, and H.R. 8537, to amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for the election of a Resident Commissioner to the U.S. for a four-year term; and considers H.R. 7665, to provide for a Virgin Island delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Dec. 14 hearing was held in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I.; and Dec. 15 hearing was held in St. Croix.
