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unusual facts about Fred J. Hume



Basic American Foods

The company is led by Jack and Bill Hume's sons, George and Jerry.

Charles B Macgibbon

Charles and Fred J. Boyd actively worked to create a society for hospital pharmacists.

Dawn and Dusk Club

Foundation members of 'the Duskers', a small and exclusive group of friends were Daley, Fred J. Broomfield, James Philp, Herbert Low (journalist), William Bede Melville (a reporter for the Sydney newspaper, The Star), Angus Sinclair (writer), Bertram Stevens and Randolph Bedford.

Edward H. Hume

From 1903-1905 Hume was in Bombay as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service to monitor the Plague outbreak that had started in 1896.

Frank Finn

The weaver bird Ploceus megarhynchus was originally described from a specimen collected by A. O. Hume from Kaladhungi near Nainital in 1869.

Fred J. Boyd

Fred J. Boyd was an Australian pharmacist, qualified accountant and X-ray technician, and the founding president of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia.

Fred J. Broomfield

Before coming to Sydney in the 1880s, where he gained employment as an accountant, Broomfield worked for the Kyneton (Victoria) Guardian and as a correspondent for the Melbourne Age.

Fred J. Cook

Cook's 1964 book, Goldwater: Extremist on the Right, initiated a series of events which in the end led to the Supreme Court decision in what is known as the Red Lion case: After the book appeared, Cook was attacked by conservative evangelist Billy James Hargis on his daily Christian Crusade radio broadcast, on WGCB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.

His 1964 exposé, The FBI Nobody Knows, was central to the plot of one of Rex Stout's most popular Nero Wolfe novels, The Doorbell Rang (1965).

Fred J. Douglas

Douglas was elected as a Republican to the 75th and to the three succeeding Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1937 to January 3, 1945.

Fred J. Hume Award

The Fred J. Hume Award was first presented after the Canucks' inaugural season in 1970–71 and was named after former Mayor of Vancouver Fred J. Hume, who was also owner of the Canucks while they were in the Western Hockey League and an active campaigner to bring the NHL to Vancouver.

Fred J. Kern

In 1901, Kern was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress, where he served from March 4, 1901 through March 3, 1903.

Kern was elected as Chief enrolling clerk of the State senate in 1892, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Kern ran for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress, but was unsuccessful, and resumed his newspaper pursuits in Belleville, Illinois.

Fred J. Lincoln

Lincoln was married several times, most notably to Patti Rhodes-Lincoln and Tiffany Clark, both pornographic actresses.

Lincoln was one of the interviewees in Legs McNeil's oral history, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry (Regan Books, 2006).

Fred J. Scollay

He made numerous appearances in such programs as Studio One, Kraft Television Theatre, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Naked City, The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, and Gunsmoke, among many others.

His last part was a recurring role as a judge on several episodes of Law & Order (1991-1996).

Fred J. Shields

He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate, Rhode Island to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the Eastern Nazarene College on the advice of John W. Goodwin.

Fred J. Slater

In 1937, he was injoined by federal judge John Knight to refrain from selling stock of the Craig Gold Mine, of Madoc, Ontario.

Fred Murphy

Fred J. Murphy (1886–1956), American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator

Frederic Lincoln

Fred J. Lincoln (1938–2013), American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, editor and cinematographer of pornographic films

Great Famine of 1876–78

Among the British administrators in India who were unsettled by the official reactions to the famine and, in particular by the stifling of the official debate about the best form of famine relief, were William Wedderburn and A. O. Hume.

Guyle Fielder

3x Fred J. Hume Cup winner; awarded to the most gentlemanly player in the WHL, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69

Jordan Cronenweth

Cronenweth was initially hired as the director of photography for the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension but halfway through production producers replaced him with Fred J. Koenekamp.

Kirk Fordham

He got his start in politics an intern for his congressman, one-term Republican Fred J. Eckert.

Robert Hume

Robert H. Hume (born about 1923), the 1941 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion in the outdoor mile run in the United States

Wedderburn, Oregon

Wedderburn was founded by R. D. Hume, a prominent local businessman in the fishing industry, who named the community after the home of his ancestors, Wedderburn Castle in Scotland.


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