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unusual facts about David T. Disney


Toledo War

In June 1835, Lucas dispatched a delegation consisting of U.S. Attorney Noah Haynes Swayne, former Congressman William Allen, and David T. Disney to Washington D.C. to confer with President Andrew Jackson.


1994 in radio

April 15 – Roy Disney's Shamrock Broadcasting, which merged with Cleveland-based Malrite Communications Group's radio group in the previous year, spins off Cleveland stations WHK and WMMS to OmniAmerica, headed by former Malrite executives Carl Hirsch and Dean Thacker.

Ansted, West Virginia

It was named after a British scientist and geologist, Dr. David T. Ansted (1814–1880), who in 1853, mapped out the nearby seams of high grade bituminous coal and once owned the land the town now occupies.

Association of Real Estate Taxpayers

David T. Beito, Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).

Casque and Gauntlet

Notable members of past delegations include Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Nelson Rockefeller, David T. McLaughlin, James Nachtwey, and Robert Reich.

David Abercrombie

David T. Abercrombie (1867–1931), American entrepreneur whose outfitting company, with co-founder Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch, came to exemplify, at start of 20th century, modern American outdoor lifestyle brand

David Daniels

David T. Daniels (born 1957), Republican member of the Ohio Senate

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

David T. Beito

Black Maverick is a biography of civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur and self-help advocate, T.R.M. Howard, who was a mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer, and was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Harper's Magazine, and other publications.

David T. Caldwell

The Second Judicial District also includes Bienville and Claiborne parishes; each of the three parishes in the district has a separate judge based in Jonesboro, Arcadia and Homer, respectively.

David T. Friendly

In 1994, Friendly joined Davis Entertainment as President, where he produced Daylight and Digging to China, as well as overseeing the development and production of many other Davis films.

David T. Johnson

In 1995, Johnson became Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House and Spokesman for the United States National Security Council.

David T. Kenney

With the wealth derived from his patents, Kenney became a benefactor of Catholic institutions, particularly Mount St. Mary Academy in North Plainfield, New Jersey and was named a Papal Chamberlain in 1906.

David T. Walker

Recently he has gained popularity in Japan for playing guitar for the pop music group Dreams Come True, and on band member Miwa Yoshida's solo albums, and has also performed live with them.

David T. Wilentz

Wilentz built his case against Hauptmann on mostly circumstantial evidence, supported by both eyewitness and expert witness testimony.

David T. Wong

Wong was born in Hong Kong, and began his undergraduate studies in chemistry at National Taiwan University.

David Wong

David T. Wong (born 1936), Chinese-American scientist whose work contributed to the invention of Fluoxetine (Prozac)

Dream On Silly Dreamer

The film was produced and released in the midst of a public corporate battle between The Walt Disney Company's CEO Michael Eisner and Roy E. Disney, formerly a Disney board member and the chairman of Feature Animation.

Eugene Siler

His war-time experiences left him, according to David T. Beito, "cold to most proposals to send American troops into harm's way."

Franklin Hills, Los Angeles

Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric and St. George during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their first animation studio, located a few blocks away at Hyperion and Griffith Park Blvd.

Howard Ashman

The 2010 documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, about Disney's animation renaissance, is dedicated to him, as well as Frank Wells, Joe Ranft, and Roy E. Disney.

Kearney, Missouri

Kearney was unofficially founded in the spring of 1856 by David T. Duncan and W. R. Cave, and was originally called Centerville.

KTAB-TV

Shamrock Broadcasting, Roy E. Disney's broadcasting company, bought the station from the Terry group in the late 1980s, then sold it to Shooting Star Broadcasting in 1997.

Louisa Collings

She also took time in 1862 to compile a list of 150 species of lichens that appear on the island of Guernsey, and presented it to the geologist David T. Ansted, who was working on a book about the Channel Islands.

Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man

Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man is a book by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke about author and filmmaker Michael Moore, criticizing him and his works.

Morning Light

Morning Light is a 2008 film directed by Mark Monroe and executive produced by Roy E. Disney.

Outerwall

March 25, 2008 Roy Disney, used his Shamrock Activist Value Fund of Burbank to ask for regulatory changes in Outerwall governance.

Pensacola Dam

Eventually, on September 18, 1937, with the help of Oklahoma Representative Wesley E. Disney, Senator Elmer Thomas and engineer W. R. Holway, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved $20 million in funding through the New Deal's Public Works Administration for the dam.

Psychopathy

David T. Lykken, using Gray's biopsychological theory of personality, argued that primary psychopaths innately have little fear while secondary psychopaths innately have increased sensitivity to rewards.

Pyewacket

Pyewacket (yacht), a MaxZ86-class sailing yacht commissioned in 2004 by Roy E. Disney; also a Santa Cruz 70 sailed by the Disney family.

Rock Solid Guitar

Rock Solid Guitar is the seventh studio album by guitarist David T. Chastain.

Rosario Kennedy

On November 4, 1978, Kennedy married former City of Miami Mayor, David T. Kennedy.

Roy Disney

Roy E. Disney (1930–2009), his son, director emeritus of The Walt Disney Company

Roy O. Disney (1893–1971), Walt Disney's elder brother and the financier of his efforts

Roy O. Disney

While Walt was the creative man, Roy was the one who made sure the company was financially stable; Roy and Walt both founded Disney Studios as brothers, but Walt would buy out most of Roy's share in 1929 and, unlike Max and Dave Fleischer of rival Fleischer Studios, Roy was not a co-producer.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

As president, Clinton was attracted to welfare expert and Harvard University Professor David Ellwood’s proposal on welfare reform and thus Clinton eventually appointed Ellwood to co-chair his welfare task force.

United States federal government credit-rating downgrades

August 7, 2011, video with David T. Beers, Standard & Poor's Global Head of Sovereign Ratings, and John B. Chambers, Chairman of the Sovereign Ratings Committee

Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera

Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera is a comic opera by David T. Little, to a libretto by Royce Vavrek.

Walt Disney Classics

This move was rejected by chairmen Roy E. Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg, out of the concern that, once again Cinderella would lose its value if it were to be released on video.

Warren W. Wilentz

He was the son of New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz, who prosecuted Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, and the brother of New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Wilentz.

William Nelson Page

Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the “front man” in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers.

Page became a protégé of Dr. David T. Ansted, a noted British geologist with large land holdings in southern West Virginia.


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