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unusual facts about Frank P. Woods


Frank Woods

Frank P. Woods (1868–1944), member of the United States House of Representatives


Arthur Addison

A son Walter C. Addison, a champion rifle shooter of Orroroo, married Gertrude Madeleine Woods (19 Oct 1872 – ), daughter of E. J. Woods, on 8 May 1900.

Arthur B. Woods

As was the case with many non-prestige British films of the 1930s, little attention or care was given to Woods' films after their original cinema run, and most of his films from the mid-1930s are now considered lost.

This was a thriller, but Woods spent the next four years making comedies and musical films (including three with popular singer Keith Falkner which represented Falkner's entire screen output) before starting also to take on crime films, starting with The Dark Stairway, made in 1937 and released in early 1938.

Many of his films involved collaborations with producer Irving Asher, cinematographer Basil Emmott and screenwriter Brock Williams, while another frequent association was with actress Chili Bouchier.

Consolidated P-30

When the Detroit Aircraft Corporation failed, the chief designer of the YP-24, Robert J. Woods was hired by Consolidated Aircraft.

David Woods

David B. Woods, USN Admiral, former commandant Guantanamo prison camp

E. J. Woods

Bishop Augustus Short called, informing him that the church authorities would have nothing to do with any other local architect, and in 1869 he left the partnership with Wright, and was soon entrusted with the preparation of working drawings for the Cathedral.

Edmond Butler

During 1869, while assigned to guard the Fort WallaceDenver stage route, Butler volunteered to join an expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Woods against the Pawnees.

Frank Austin

Frank P. Austin (1937–2002), interior designer and antique dealer

Frank Bohn

Frank P. Bohn (1866-1944), Republican Congressman from Michigan

Frank P. Bohn

He then won the general election to the United States House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district for the 70th Congress and the two succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1933.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the 73rd Congress in 1932, losing in the general election to Democrat Prentiss M. Brown.

Frank P. Briggs

He resumed the newspaper publishing business and was chairman of the Missouri State Conservation Commission in 1955-1956; from 1961 to 1965 he was Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife.

Frank P. Pellegrino

His father and mother emigrated from Italy in 1891 from Cerisano in Calabria, Italy.

Frank P. Rice

He was instrumental in obtaining land for the right-of-way for extension of the Richmond and Danville Railroad and Georgia Pacific Railway.

Frank P. Sargent

Sargent was first tapped for government service during the Republican administration of William McKinley, when he declined appointment to head the nation's currency-issuing authority, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

In his capacity as BLF chief Sargent played a role in the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888 as well as the 1894 Great Northern Railroad strike conducted by the American Railway Union headed by Sargent's former BLF associate, Eugene V. Debs.

Frank P. Treanor

He attended the College of St. Francis Xavier, and the College of the Holy Cross.

Frank P. Walsh

Walsh was active in KC municipal improvement projects, and was a member of the Commercial Club in 1913 when he was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to head the newly formed Commission on Industrial Relations.

In 1885 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and began working in the office of noted KC lawyer Gardiner Lathrop (who is famous for co-founding the Kansas City Country Club, among other things).

Frank Woods

Frank E. Woods (1860–1939), screenwriter and one of the 36 founders of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Harry McGregor

Harry M. Woods (Henry MacGregor Woods, 1896–1970), Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist

Ickey Shuffle

The Ickey Shuffle was a touchdown celebration done by former National Football League fullback Elbert "Ickey" Woods of the Cincinnati Bengals after he would score a touchdown.

James B. Woods

He was a business partner with his brother-in-law J. Shannon Clift in a commission merchant and ship brokerage business in St. John's.

James P. Woods

Woods was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of Carter Glass.

He was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from February 25, 1919, to March 3, 1923.

James Shannon Clift

Clift operated a commission merchant and ship brokerage business in St. John's in partnership with James B. Woods, his brother-in-law.

Jeffrey Colwell

In late 2011 newly appointed camp commander David B. Woods, the officer who controlled the captive's daily life, ordered new, highly restrictive rules on lawyers communicating with their clients.

Johann Reichhart

He cooperated with Allied chief executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods in the preparations for further executions of those found guilty and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials.

Louis E. Woods

In 1944, Wood also had the distinction of sending off to war a 42-year-old pilot named Charles Lindbergh.

Shortly after his return to the United States in August 1926, he was ordered to Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., for duty in the Aviation Section of the Major General Commandant's Department.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics

After 1929, his primary mathematical preoccupation entailed resolving the account of logical necessity he had articulated in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—an issue which had been fiercely pressed by Frank P. Ramsey.

Mail privileges of Guantanamo Bay detainees

According to the United Press International an unnamed military official attributed the change in policy to the recent appointment of the new camp commandant Rear Admiral David B. Woods.

Max Neal

According to a June 24, 1922 article in The New York Times titled "Woods Back with 40 Foreign Plays", producers Albert H. Woods and Charles B. Dillingham traveled to Europe to collect plays to re-produce in the States, of which Parquette No. 6 by Max Neal and Hans Gerbeck were one.

Organization of the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force

The Air Service, Second Army Air Service was activated on October 12 with Col. Frank P. Lahm as chief, and the Air Service, Third Army Air Service was created immediately after the armistice to provide aviation support to the army of occupation, primarily from veteran units transferred from the First Army Air Service.

Paragraph 170 appointed Colonel Frank P. Lahm as Chief of Air Service, Second Army, thus establishing a separate Air Service organization.

Philip Spratt

He joined the Union Society, the University Labour Club and a private discussion society called the Heretics, of which Charles Kay Ogden was President; Frank P. Ramsey, I.A. Richards and Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett often attended.

Reginald Purdell

He tried his hand at film directing in 1937 with two comedies Don't Get Me Wrong, a Max Miller vehicle co-directed with Arthur B. Woods, and Patricia Gets Her Man.

Rich Field

He was born in Indiana, and had been instructed to fly by Lt. Frank P. Lahm in May 1913, then crashed his Wright Model C into Manila Bay on November 14, 1913, the tenth U.S. pilot to die in a flying accident.

Samuel D. Woods

He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903.

Woods was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion De Vries.

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

Thomas H. Woods

He also served as the first president of Citizens National Bank, also known as Citizens Savings Bank which was started in 1888.

United States v. Dion

Before hearings on an amendment to extend protection to the golden eagle, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Frank P. Briggs wrote a letter to the subcommittee acknowledging the religious significance of the golden eagle to many Indian tribes of the southwest.

Viper of Melody

# "Midnight Stars and You" - 3:22 (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry Woods)

Wampus cat

A musical ensemble who recorded several tracks in 1937 and 1938, and consisting of six or seven string musicians including Oscar "Buddy" Woods, were billed as 'The Wampus Cats'.

When the Moon Comes over the Mountain

"When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain" is a popular song, published in 1931, and credited as written by Howard Johnson, Harry M. Woods, and Kate Smith.


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