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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.


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.

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 Davenport

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

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. 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.

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.

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.


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