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Edward Davidson

Edward S. Davidson, professor of electrical engineering and computer science


Allan Davidson

Allan A. Davidson, lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada

Andrew Davidson

Andrew B. Davidson (1831–1902), Scottish professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages

Ballantyne, Davidson, McIntyre v. Canada

Elizabeth Evatt, Nisuke Ando, Marco Tulio Bruni Celli and Vojin Dimitrijević filed a concurrence stating that the term "minority" shouldn't be interpreted "solely on the basis of the number of members of the group in question in the State party".

Cambodian genocide denial

On June 6, 1977, he and his collaborator, Edward S. Herman, published a review of Barron and Paul's, Ponchaud's, and Porter's books in The Nation.

David A. Davidson

Promoted from the rank of inspector, Davidson served as acting Chief of Police from November 19, 1938 to June 23, 1939, and was succeeded by Arthur C. Hohmann, a police lieutenant who was appointed chief by the Police Commission.

David Davidson

David A. Davidson, Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department

Doublespeak

Edward S. Herman, political economist and media analyst, has highlighted some examples of doublespeak and doublethink in modern society.

Edward Herman

Edward S. Herman (born 1925), American economist and media analyst

Edward Mann

Edward S. Mann (1905–2005), educator and former president of the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts

Edward S. Bragg

He was appointed consul general in Havana, Cuba in May, 1902, and in Hong Kong, then a British crown colony, in September, 1902, serving from 1903 to 1906.

Edward S. Herman

Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".

Herman and Chomsky challenged the veracity of media accounts of war crimes and repression by the Vietnamese communists, stating that "the basic sources for the larger estimates of killings in the North Vietnamese land reform were persons affiliated with the CIA or the Saigon Propaganda Ministry" and "the NLF-DRV 'bloodbath' at Hue in South Vietnam was constructed on flimsy evidence indeed".

Edward S. Jordan

Jordan supported his own way through the University of Wisconsin–Madison and achieved high grades while working as a sports reporter for a Madison, Wisconsin newspaper and the Milwaukee Journal.

Edward S. Lacey

He attended the public schools and Olivet College and engaged in various business pursuits and in banking.

Lacey was elected as a Republican to represent Michigan's 3rd congressional district in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1881 to March 3, 1885.

Edward S. Rogers, Sr.

Roger Sr father was a director with Imperial Oil Company and formerly a partner in Samuel and Elias Rogers Coal Company (Elias Rogers and Company) founded 1876 by his Quaker father Samuel Rogers and uncle Elias Rogers (d. 1920).

Edward S. Walker, Jr.

Edward S. Walker was born in Abington, Pennsylvania.

He started the negotiations with Libya which lead to Libya's decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost 3 billion US dollars in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 as well as UTA Flight 772.

Eric Davidson

Eric H. Davidson (born 1937), developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology

Gordon Davidson

Gordon B. Davidson (born 1926), American business attorney and sponsor of Muhammad Ali

Henry Faulds

Whilst accompanying a friend (American archeologist, Edward S. Morse) to an archaeological dig he noticed how the delicate impressions left by craftsmen could be discerned in ancient clay fragments.

J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson

In this post he was forced to deal with cuts in naval expenditure proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, especially regarding the construction of new cruisers.

James W. Davidson

Leaving in 1914, he spent CAN$250,000 of his own money to establish branches of Rotary International in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, Burma, Siam (Thailand), Java, and in several of the Malay states including Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Penang, Ipoh, Klang and Singapore.

In June 1897, he was appointed by President Cleveland consular agent for the island of Formosa, where he remained nine years, during which time he wrote numerous monographs on Formosan affairs.

In 1904, Davidson was appointed to Dalny, Manchuria, one of the political consulates, where he was expected to promote Secretary Hay's “open door” policy.

John Joseph Braham, Sr.

In the early teens Edward S. Curtis (ethnographer, photographer, and soon to be film maker whose major subject was the North American Indian) commissioned Braham to compose a score for In the Land of the Head Hunters.

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

Attorney General Cummings received novel advice from Princeton University professor Edward S. Corwin in a December 16, 1936 letter.

Kenneth S. M. Davidson

In November 1942, Davidson started to run test on seaplane hulls for the Bureau of Aeronautics.

Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory

Current investigators include members of the Eric Davidson lab working on various marine biology related projects.

Lawrence Denny Lindsley

This association led him to work for Edward S. Curtis, where Lindsley developed some of the color negatives (orotones), known as the “gold tones”, for Curtis’ famous “Indians of North America” series.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, is an analysis of the news media, arguing that the mass media of the United States "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".

Margo L. Davidson

In late 2011, she voted for a bill to place more regulations on abortion clinics, she stated this was in reaction to the death of her cousin Semika Shaw, who died as a result of seeking an abortion with Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist who continued to operate in part because of the state not having more stringent regulations on facilities that perform abortions.

Rainier Club

E. H. Harriman, John Burroughs, John Muir, Edward S. Curtis and Henry Gannett set out to Seal Island and other Bering Sea islands and to the coast of Siberia and the Bering Strait from the Club, and celebrated there on their return.

Rise of Rome

Such views would be echoed in the late 20th century by Edward S. Herman who emphasized the impossibility of ruling without support of the media and professions who were generally responsible for maintaining ethical codes and drawing attention to transgressions of the codes.

Robert H. M. Davidson

Davidson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1891).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-eighth through Fiftieth Congresses).

Salvage ethnography

Photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was preceded by painter George Catlin (1796–1872) in attempting to capture indigenous North American traditions that they believed to be disappearing.

Schell Bridge

Designed by Edward S. Shaw, the bridge was built by the New England Structural Company of East Everett, Massachusetts.

Segretissimo

A first series with the same name was launched in October 1960, featuring 12 spy novels all by Jean Bruce; the series was then restarted from #1, which (apart Bruce) has featured mainly translations of American or British authors, such as James Hadley Chase, Edward S. Aarons, Stephen Gunn and others, as well as the Nick Carter series and the SAS series by Gérard de Villiers and his followers.

Tahoma Vista Comfort Station

The design was supervised by Park Service Chief Architect Thomas Chalmers Vint, and site selection and development were undertaken by Park Service landscape architect Ernest A. Davidson.

Timothy Long

The group performs music including the original score for a newly restored print of Edward S. Curtis’ 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters.

United States and state terrorism

Notable works include Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's The political economy of human rights (1979), Herman's The real terror network (1985), Alexander L. George' Western state terrorism (1991), Frederick Gareau's State terrorism and the United States (2004) and Doug Stokes' America's other war (2005).

Walter Mason Camp

Camp visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield many times, in the company of such notable participants as Curley, Peter Thompson, Gen. Edward S. Godfrey, Sgt. Daniel Knipe, Stanislaus Roy, George Herendeen, and others.

William B. Davidson

He started in films in 1914 with Vitagraph and supported such well known stage and film actresses as Ethel Barrymore, Mabel Taliaferro, Charlotte Walker, Olga Petrova, Viola Dana, June Caprice, Edna Goodrich, and Mae West.


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