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Edward R. Burke

He was a Washington representative and general counsel for Hawaiian Statehood Commission until 1950, when he retired to Kensington, Maryland.


66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Colonel Patrick E. Burke - mortally wounded at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads on May 16, 1864 while commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.

Andrew Burke

Andrew H. Burke (1850–1918), American politician who served as governor of North Dakota

Andrew H. Burke

He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

The state participated in the 1892 U.S. presidential election, when Grover Cleveland was elected to a second term as President of the United States.

Anthony Burke

Anthony Burke, Australian international relations scholar and political theorist

Charles Eric Maine

He published three issues of a science fiction magazine called The Satellite which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke.

Chris Hansen

Hansen has received seven Emmy Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion awards, the Overseas Press Club award, an IRE, the National Press Club award, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Award; as well as awards for excellence from the Associated Press and United Press International.

College of Staten Island High School for International Studies

In 1999, she became assistant principal of social studies at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn before taking the job as the founding principal of CSIHSIS.

Daniel Burke

Daniel J. Burke (born 1951), Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives

Edmond Hall

It was produced and narrated by Edward R. Murrow and contains many clips of the All Stars with Edmond Hall, while in Europe and Ghana.

Edward Bradley

Edward R. Bradley (1859–1946), American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder

Edward Pease

Edward R. Pease (1857 - 1955), first cousin twice removed of Edward Pease (1767-1858), founder of the Fabian Society

Edward R. Dewey

Dewey first became interested in cycles while Chief Economic Analyst of the Department of Commerce in 1930 or 1931 because President Hoover wanted to know the cause of the Great Depression.

Edward R. Murrow Award

Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy, given to a U.S. State Department employee by the Fletcher School at Tufts University

Edward R. Pease

In 1886, he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, began working as a cabinet-maker and formed a branch of the National Labour Federation.

Edward R. Pressman

Pressman was born in New York City, the son of Lynn and Jack Pressman, known as the "King of Marbles", who founded the Pressman Toy Corporation.

Edward R. Weidlein

Edward Ray Weidlein (born July 14, 1887) was a chemist and later Director, Chairman, and President at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research.

Faces of Freedom

It revisits Edward R. Murrow’s Harvest of Shame, filmed 40 years ago, and reveals that little has changed over the past 4 decades in the lives of migrant farm workers in America.

Fireman Farrell

In the other stories in Showcase #1, Farrell fights a fire in a circus, and is profiled on a television news program called Let's Take a Look (based on Edward R. Murrow's See It Now).

Flying Hawk

Three years later, U.S. Commissioner for Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke was asked to resign for the Oklahoma scandal.

Frank Burke

Frank G. Burke (born 1927), Acting Archivist of the United States

Gloria Tristani

In 2000, the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) awarded her the Edward R. Roybal Award for Outstanding Public Service and was selected as Hispanic Business magazine's as one the nation's 100 most influential Hispanics for the years 1996 and 1998.

Harvest of Shame

Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers.

Hermis

He was purchased as a two-year-old by Cincinnati theatre man Henry M. Ziegler and would be sold to L. V. Bell who in turn sold him in 1903 to banker, Edward R. Thomas.

Hostages Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.

Ira Glass

In 2009, Glass was named the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio.

James F. Burke

At one point the United States Golf Association asked him to prepare a set of rules which was ultimately presented to the international committee at St Andrews in Scotland.

James W. Smith

A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm, Edward R. Bradley, for whom he

Jicarilla language

Axelrod, Melissa; Gómez de García, Jule; Lachler, Jordan; & Burke, Sean M. (Eds.).

Justice Burke

Edward T. Burke (1870–1935), American judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota

Anne M. Burke (born 1944), Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the First Judicial District

Kevin Burke

Kevin M. Burke (born 1946), American attorney and politician in the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Lorne Saxberg

Saxberg received an Edward R. Murrow Award award for his work on the coverage of the 60th anniversary of the bomb at Hiroshima.

Marcel Boussac

He acquired the U.S. Triple Crown winner Whirlaway and sold the mare La Troienne to Edward R. Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm in Lexington, Kentucky who became one of the most influential mares to be imported into the U.S. in the 20th century.

Marquette Sports Law Review

Anne M. Burke, justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, "2008 Joseph E. O’Neil Award Acceptance Speech," 19 Marq. L. Rev. 339 (2008).

Parnell Commission

On 6 May 1882 two leading members of the British Government in Ireland, Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland T.H. Burke were stabbed to death in Phoenix Park, Dublin by the Irish National Invincibles (see Phoenix Park Murders).

Patrick Burke

Patrick E. Burke (1830–1864), lawyer, Missouri state legislator, and Civil War officer

Raymond H. Burke

Raymond Burke was personnel and employment manager for The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company tool works, a major Hamilton, Ohio employer, from 1918 to 1923.

Richard Heffner

A protégé of Edward R. Murrow, Heffner helped establish what is now WNET (Channel 13) in New York City and was its first general manager, from 1961–63.

Richard J. Burke

He was married on October 19, 1940 to Josephina Battaglia the daughter of Carmelo Battaglia of Monte Maggiore Belsito, Palermo, Sicily, and Antonia Fasulo of Burgio, Agrigento, Sicily.

Robert Pierpoint

As a close associate of Edward R. Murrow on radio and television, he was seen as having been a member of the second generation of Murrow's Boys.

Society of Friends of Russian Freedom

In 1892, the executive committee of the society included William Pollard Byles, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, Mrs. Edwin Human, Mrs. Oharies Mallet, Mrs. Marjory Pease and Edward R. Pease, G.H. Perris, J Allonson Ploton, Herbert Rix, George Standring, Adolphs Smith, Robert Spence Watson, Ethel Lilian Voynich and Wilfrid Voynich, and William W. Mackenzie.

Sodium Reactor Experiment

Edward R. Murrow’s television program See It Now featured the event as a special news report, broadcast on November 24, 1957.

Susan L. Burke

The lawsuit, which stemmed from the firefight in Nisoor Square in Baghdad, alleged Blackwater had violated the federal Alien Tort Statute by committing extrajudicial killing and war crimes, and that the company was liable for assault and battery, wrongful death, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and negligent hiring, training and supervision.

T. J. Burke

On January 22, 2010, Burke performed a rendition of Larry Platt's "Pants on the Ground" when criticizing conservative opposition leader David Alward during a session of the New Brunswick provincial legislature, garnering international attention.

The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs

In 2008 (Vol. 32), it published a special issue to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward R. Murrow.

The Prosecution of an American President

The Prosecution of an American President is a 2012 American documentary film about the Iraq War directed by Dave Hagen and David J. Burke.

Thomas Whitfield Davidson

On January 22, 1936, Davidson was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by Edward R. Meek.

Tichnor, Arkansas

Lloyd L. Burke, awarded a Medal of Honor for this actions in the Korean War, was born in Tichnor.

William H. Burke, Jr.

Burke began his political involvement in 1934 when he assisted James Michael Curley during his successful run for Governor of Massachusetts.


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