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unusual facts about Gladys J. Commons


Gladys J. Commons

In 1971, she moved to the Office of Naval Research, taking a job as a Budget Analyst with the Office of Naval Research's Comptroller.


Doctors' Commons

The Court of Probate Act 1857 abolished the testamentary jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and gave common lawyers the right to practise in areas which before had been the exclusive domain of civilians, while offering the token compensation that the civilians could practise in the common law courts.

Frank J. Weber

In the Assembly Weber worked for the passage of laws establishing the Wisconsin Industrial Commission (with Charles H. Crownhart and John R. Commons he wrote the industrial commission law in 1911), workmen's compensation, the state system of technical education, and other statutes favorable to the interests of the working class.

Herbert Jenner-Fust

Jenner-Fust, surname initially Jenner, was second son of Robert Jenner of Doctors' Commons, proctor, and of Chislehurst, Kent, by his second wife, Ann, eldest daughter of Peter Birt of Wenvoe Castle, Glamorganshire.

John Scott Porter

On 1 January 1826 he received a unanimous call from the Presbyterian congregation in Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons, London, and was ordained there on 2 March, in succession to John Hoppus His views were Arian, and he became the editor (1826–8) of an Arian monthly, the Christian Moderator; but he was in friendly relations with Thomas Belsham, the leader of those of Joseph Priestley's opinion.

Perspectives on capitalism

It emphasizes the legal foundations of capitalism (see John R. Commons) and the evolutionary, habituated, and volitional processes by which institutions are erected and then changed (see John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and Daniel Bromley.)

William Rothery

William Rothery (1775 – 1864), was chief of the office of the king's proctor in Doctors' Commons - a society of lawyers practising civil law in London.


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