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2 unusual facts about Howard E. Coffin


Aircraft Board

Chaired by Howard E. Coffin, the Aircraft Board was also removed from the control of the Council of National Defense and placed under the Secretaries of War and the Navy.

Howard Coffin

Howard E. Coffin (1873–1937), automobile and aircraft engineer and industrialist


American University School of Public Affairs

Howard E. McCurdy, space policy expert and author of Space and the American Imagination

B. B. Dickerson

He now lives in Southern California and tours with Howard E. Scott, Lee Oskar and Harold Brown as the Lowrider Band.

Charles D. Coffin

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew W. Loomis and served from December 20, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Château Beauregard

In 1932 the architectural firm of Henry M. Polhemus and Lewis Augustus Coffin designed and built a replica of the château on the expansive Gould-Guggenheim estate in Port Washington, Long Island, NY, for Mrs Daniel Guggenheim named "Mille-Fleurs"; it still stands in a Nassau County park.

Clitocybe albirhiza

American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith first described the species officially in 1963, from specimens collected in June, 1954, near Payette Lake, Idaho.

Cornelian automobile

The 1914 Cornelian was manufactured by Howard E. Blood (of the Allegan, Michigan-based Blood Brothers Machine Company), who had joined forces with Swiss racecar driver Louis Chevrolet.

Howard A. Coffin

He worked as a representative for the book publishers, Ginn & Co., 1901-1911; controller, Warren Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, 1911-1913; manager, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of Michigan, 1913-1918; secretary, Detroit Pressed Steel Company, 1918-1921; assistant to president, Cadillac Motor Company, of Detroit, 1921-1925; vice president and later president, White Star Refining Company, 1925-1933; general manager, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, 1933-1946.

Howard E. Babcock

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Howard E. Johnson

Although never a prominent figure in jazz, during a career which lasted from the 1930s to the 1980s he worked and recorded with many of the most famous jazz musicians of his time, including Benny Carter, Don Redman, Dizzy Gillespie, Bessie Smith, Teddy Hill, Chick Webb, and Panama Francis' Savoy Sultans.

Howard E. Koch

The movie subsequently spawned controversy because of its positive portrayal of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union.

Howard E. McCurdy

McCurdy, Howard E. with David H. Rosenbloom, editors, Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public Administration, Georgetown University Press, 2006.

Howard E. Scott

-- with Deacon Jones from the LA Rams"?title=Eric Burdon">Eric Burdon and Lee Oskar stopped in to hear them play.

Howard E. Wasdin

SEAL Team Six was released May 10, 2011, only a week after DEVGRU took part in the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden.

Howard Ross

Howard E. Ross (1921–2010), national president of the Canadian Home Builders' Association

Lowrider Band

The Lowrider Band consists of four of the five surviving original core group members of the multi-platinum selling band War: Howard E. Scott, B.B. Dickerson, Lee Oskar, and Harold Brown.

Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow

In 1956, Barr married mycologist Howard E. Bigelow and was awarded a Ph.D. for her work The taxonomic position of the genus Mycosphaerella as shown by comparative developmental studies one week later.

Native Sons of the Golden West

Howard E. Dorsey (1904–1937), Los Angeles City Council member, 1937

Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo

In 2001, Dave Sim and his collaborator Gerhard founded the Howard E. Day Prize for outstanding achievement in self-publishing, in tribute to Sim's mentor, Gene Day.

Thomas Coffin

Thomas C. Coffin (1887–1934), a United States politician who was a United States Representative from Idaho

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors.


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