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unusual facts about Edward R. Meek



13th Primetime Emmy Awards

Fred W. Friendly, David Lowe, Edward R. Murrow for CBS Reports, (Episode: "Harvest of Shame"), (CBS)

Black-appeal stations

Edward R. Murrow and a young collaborator, Fred W. Friendly, had transformed their documentary radio series Hear It Now into See It Now.

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.

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. Ayrton

In 1904-05 he excavated and recorded graves of several ancient princesses found in the funerary temple complex of king Mentuhotep II at Deir al-Bahari, as part of the expedition led by Édouard Naville and Henry Hall.

On the 18 May 1914 he drowned while on a shooting expedition, in an accident on the Tissa Tank lake, Tissamaharama, in southern Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

Edward R. Burke

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

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. Dudley

In New York, Dudley worked odd jobs, among them as stage manager for Orson Welles at a public works theater project.

Edward R. Madigan State Fish and Wildlife Area

Founded in 1971 as Railsplitter State Park, it was renamed in 1995 in honor of Edward R. Madigan, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the town of Lincoln and a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

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. Stettinius

They had four children, among them Stettinius's namesake, Edward Stettinius, Jr., who also worked as a business executive, and was Secretary of State for a time.

When the United States entered the war, he went to work in its War Department.

Edward R. Tinsley

Tinsley won a five-person Republican primary to succeed Pearce, but he lost the November 4 general election to the Democrat Harry Teague, an oilman from Hobbs, the first Democrat to win the post since 1978, the year that Domenici was elected to his second term as senator.

Edward R. Vick

Edward Vick established the Vick Foundation in 2004, which inaugurated the Bulgarian Novel of the Year prize.

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.

Edward Rell Madigan

In 1995, Edward R. Madigan State Fish and Wildlife Area, a state park near Lincoln, was renamed in Madigan's honor.

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.

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

He graduated from Oberlin College in 1850 and from the Albany Medical College in 1853, where he attracted the notice of Professor James Hall, state geologist of New York, through whose influence he was induced to join in an exploration of Nebraska Territory, with Fielding B. Meek to study geology and collect fossils.

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).

GlobalPost

In 2011, GlobalPost's "On Location" video series was recognized with a Peabody Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

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 Hope Foundation

The plight of migrant farmworkers was first documented in the 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame presented by CBS news anchor Edward R. Murrow.

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.

Howie Schneider

His best-known comic strip, Eek & Meek, ran from 1965 to 2000 in more than 400 newspapers through Newspaper Enterprise Association.

Ida Lou Anderson

One of Anderson's earliest and most impressive students was Edward R. Murrow who went on to a legendary broadcasting career at CBS.

Ira Glass

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

James W. Smith

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

Joe Skeen

In the 2002 Republican primary to choose a nominee to succeed Skeen, the party turned to Steve Pearce, who defeated Edward R. Tinsley, an attorney and businessman who owns the K-Bob's Steakhouse restaurant chain.

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.

Office of Migrant Education

The Office of Migrant Education was created out of a response from the public out-cry resulting from Edward R. Murrow's 1960 documentary "Harvest of Shame." This documentary described the deplorable working conditions and interrupted educational experiences of many migrant children.

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.

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.

Ronald L. Meek

In 1946 Meek moved to Cambridge, England with a Strathcona studentship to read for a Ph.D. under Piero Sraffa and Maurice Dobb.

S. P. Meek

He served as Chief, Small Arms Ammunition Research, in 1923-1926, and Chief Publications Officer, Ordnance Dept., in 1941-1945.

Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein

Paintings from Bernstein's art collection and portraits of showmen Edward R. Murrow and P. T. Barnum adorned the interior of the studios to inspire creativity among Granada employees.

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.

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.

Thomas P. Meek

For a six-month period in 1999 during the height of the Kosovo crisis, Meek was dispatched by DIA to serve as Defense Attaché in Tirana, Albania.

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.


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