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unusual facts about George S. Chase


George S. Chase

In this period he published also a series of 78RPMs on Thomas J. Valentino's Major Records label under his real name, some of them together with the French library musician Roger Roger.


Arlen F. Chase

The LiDAR system was installed in an aircraft flown over Caracol.

Battle of Saint-Mihiel

As a result, by September 1918, Colonel George S. Patton Jr. had finished training two tank battalions - 144 French-built Renault FT light tanks organized as the 344th and 345th battalions of the United States Tank Corps - at Langres, France for an upcoming offensive at the St. Mihiel salient.

Black No More

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations by George S. Schuyler (pronounced Sky-ler).

Charles Pattinson

In 1998, he and fellow producer George Faber set up their own independent production company, Company Pictures.

Chase City, Virginia

Chase City was incorporated in 1873 and named for Salmon P. Chase, United States Chief Justice and Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury.

Chester A. Dolan, Jr.

On November 8, Dolan and his outfit participated in the first Allied invasion of Casablanca along with General George S. Patton's Western Tank Force.

Chicken curry

In 1940, Mrs. W.L. Bullard from Warm Springs, Georgia served this dish under the name "Country Captain" to Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president of the United States of America) and to General George S. Patton (a distinguished U.S. Army General).

Corporate foresight

To operationalize the need for "peripheral vision", a concept closely linked to corporate foresight George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker propose 24 questions.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Criminal law in the Chase Court

During the tenure of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, the fundamental structure of the federal criminal system—arising from the Judiciary Act of 1789—underwent several legislative modifications.

Edwin S. Porter

He collaborated with several other filmmakers, including George S. Fleming.

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

Equisetopsida sensu lato

However in 2009, in an article titled "A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III," Mark W. Chase and James L. Reveal proposed a much broader sense for the Equisetopsida class name.

General Greene

George S. Greene (1801–1899), Union general during the American Civil War

George Faber

George S. J. Faber, co-founder of British production company Company Pictures

George Gregory

George S. Gregory (1846–?), Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1887–1888

George Myers

George S. Myers (1905–1985), American ichthyologist from Stanford University

George S. Boutwell

As Treasury Secretary, Boutwell's primary achievements were reorganizing and reforming the Treasury Department, improving bookkeeping by customs houses, incorporating the United States Mint into the Treasury and reducing the national debt.

George S. Brooks

Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.

George S. Mercouris

Mercouris was re-elected to parliament, in September 1932, and made vice-president of the People's Party which he left in November after a disagreement with its leader Panagis Tsaldaris.

George S. Messersmith

While he did not personally interview Albert Einstein, Messersmith cleared the way for the scientist to leave Germany.

He was best known in his day for his controversial decision to issue a visa to Albert Einstein to travel to the United States.

George S. Mickelson Trail

The trail is named after George S. Mickelson, the South Dakota governor who helped spearhead the project.

George S. Stuart

When Stuart moved to Ojai, California in 1959, he opened The Gallery of Historical Figures and began teaching workshops on figural construction, costuming and sculpting faces.

George S. Talbot

George Thomas Surtees Talbot (1875 – 1918) was an English composer and writer.

George Stuart

George S. Stuart (born 1929), American sculptor, raconteur and historian

Greta Nissen

In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback.

Hans Cramer

During his repatriation journey, he was allowed to see Montgomery's 21st Army Group preparing for the invasion of Europe, but was told he was in Kent, where Patton's mythical 1st U.S. Army Group was preparing for its invasion.

Harry B. Chase

Chase ran for a second term in office in the 2008 Alberta general election, he was re-elected holding the electoral district with a comfortable plurality.

Harry Chase

Harry B. Chase (born 1947), Canadian politician in the Alberta legislature

Henry B. Chase

Sources conflict as to whether this marriage took place in August 1896 in Catawba, North Carolina, or in 1900 in Hickory, North Carolina.

Henry VIII Novices' Chase

The event is named after Henry VIII, who commandeered Esher (the location of Sandown Park) as a royal hunting ground in the sixteenth century.

Israel Tal

Israel Tal's picture appears in the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor's "Wall of Greatest Armor Commanders" along with compatriot Moshe Peled, Americans George S. Patton and Creighton Abrams and German field-marshal Erwin Rommel.

Jewson Novices' Chase

The race was initially sponsored by Jewson and was established in 2011 as a new race at the Festival.

Kate Chase

Katherine Jane ("Kate") Chase Sprague (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899) was the daughter of Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary during President Abraham Lincoln's first administration and later Chief Justice of the United States.

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey's pseudonyms, taken from the protagonist of the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; that character was in turn based on dramatic critic and raconteur Alexander Woollcott.

Namwianga Mission

Namwianga also contains the George Benson Christian College, which trains secondary teachers in the areas of Math-Religious Education or English-Religious Education, and many graduates go on to plant churches around Zambia.

Peover Hall

During the Second World War the house was requisitioned and used by General George Patton and his staff.

Ray P. Chase

Chase was elected as a Republican to the 73rd congress (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935) during a period when the state elected all Representatives at-large.

Remington Model 51

General George S. Patton owned a Remington 51 and was thought to favor the weapon.

Robert H. Johnson

In 1972, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, which nominated the U.S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for the U.S. presidency.

San Germán, Puerto Rico

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor, by General George S. Patton, thus becoming the first Puerto Rican recipient of said military decoration.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.

The Body in the Seine

What makes The Body in the Seine interesting to collectors of Broadway cast albums is the theatrical performers assembled for the recording, including Alice Pearce, George S. Irving, Barbara Ashley and future U.S. Congressman, Jim Symington.

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

The title of the short is a reference to the 1942 Warner Brothers film version of the 1939 George S. Kaufman Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, in which an overbearing house-guest threatens to take over the lives of a small-town family.

The Washington Bee

Supported by William C. Chase as the head editor, The Washington Bee quickly became one of the most famous African American newspaper in the nation.

William A. Massey

He moved to Reno, Nevada and resumed the practice of law, and was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Nixon by Governor Tasker Oddie.

William Marshall Swayne

Swayne was a self taught artist who sculpted many figure from history and from life including General Anthony Wayne, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, William H. Seward, Andrew Johnson, Bayard Taylor, General George Meade, Sam Houston, and John Hickman.


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