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unusual facts about Harry J. Davenport


Harry Davenport

Harry J. Davenport (1902–1977), Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.


Assassin of Youth

The film's title refers to an article of the same year by U.S. "drug czar" Harry J. Anslinger that appeared in The American Magazine and was reprinted in Reader's Digest in 1938.

Bucktown

Bucktown, Davenport, an historic area in the eastern end of downtown Davenport, Iowa

Bucktown, Davenport

When the Tri City Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1916, it was the twelfth in the nation but having drawn two-thirds of its membership from the Strasser Marching Band, it is debated by many as the oldest music organization in the country to have formed a symphonic orchestra.

Business intelligence

Thomas Davenport argues that business intelligence should be divided into querying, reporting, OLAP, an "alerts" tool, and business analytics.

Castle in the Clouds

The interiors were designed by Irving & Casson-A.H. Davenport.

Ford Flivver

Ford's chief test pilot was Harry J. Brooks, a young employee who had become a favorite of Ford.

Hampton National Cemetery

First Sergeant Harry J. Mandy (1840-1904), Medal of Honor recipient for action at Front Royal, Virginia during the Civil War.

Harry J. Boyle

Boyle's writing was primarily autobiographical fiction dealing with life in rural southern Ontario during the interwar period.

Harry J. Brooks

A first attempt launched on 24 January 1928, witnessed by Henry Ford, landed short in a forced landing at Asheville, North Carolina.

A first attempt launched on 24 January 1928, witnessed by Henry Ford, landed short in Asheville, North Carolina.

Harry J. Cargas

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Cargas as one of the original members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which laid the groundwork for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He was also an executive councilman for the U.S. Holocaust Council and the only Catholic ever appointed to the Advisory Committee for Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Harry J. Haiselden

Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 - June 18, 1919) was the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago in 1915 who refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.

Harry J. Malony

In 1935, he attended the Army War College and subsequently became a Member of the Field Artillery Board.

Harry J. Tindell

He is the Chair of the House Budget Subcommittee and is a member of the House State and Local Government Committee, the House Local Government Subcommittee, the House State Government Subcommittee, the Joint Pensions and Insurance Committee, the Joint Lottery Oversight Committee, the Joint Tennessee Education Lottery Corp.

Henry Cosgrove

In 1903 he was quoted in the national media calling Davenport "the wicked city of its size in America" because of its notorious Bucktown District, an area of speakeasies and houses of prosititution, which were down the hill from the cathedral.

Herbert J. Davenport

He was a relentless critic of Alfred Marshall, his last book being a critique of The Economics of Alfred Marshall (1935).

James Davenport

James H. Davenport (born 1953), professor of information technology at the University of Bath

James S. Davenport (1864–1940), American lawyer, U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma

James H. Davenport

He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust.

Marihuana Tax Act of 1937

The head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), Harry J. Anslinger, argued that, in the 1930s, the FBN had noticed an increase of reports of people smoking marijuana.

Risch algorithm

The case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport.

Rose Eytinge

Among her principal later parts were Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist, Gervaise in Drink, Ophelia to the Hamlet of E. L. Davenport, and Desdemona with James W. Wallack as Othello and Davenport as Iago.

Roy M. Davenport

In 1954, the popular television program, This Is Your Life with host Ralph Edwards, recounted his wartime events with close family appearing with him.

Davenport’s cousin, Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy, did not appear, as only immediate family, and those who interacted in Davenport’s wartime adventures, were invited.

Symbolic integration

It was first implemented in Reduce in the case of purely transcendental functions; the case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport; the general case was solved and implemented in Axiom by Manuel Bronstein.

The Heptones

The Heptones remained at Studio One well into the reggae era, where they cut tunes such as "Message from a Black Man", "Love Won't Come Easy", "I Hold (Got) The Handle", "I Love You" and a successful cover version of "Suspicious Minds", then went on to record with Joe Gibbs and Harry J in the early 1970s.

Trulaske College of Business

The first faculty was appointed on February 18, 1914 with professor Herbert J. Davenport as the first Dean.

William Rockhill Nelson

In one legendary encounter, Kansas City Mayor Joseph J. Davenport was thrown down a stairwell at the Star building by editors (including William Allen White) when he was believed to have physically threatened Nelson.


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