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2 unusual facts about Ira J. McDonald


Craig, Nebraska

Ira J. McDonald, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–43, born in Craig

Ira J. McDonald

McDonald was born May 1, 1895, in Craig, Nebraska, the son of John S. McDonald and Amanda B. Hildreth, both of Jamestown, Tennessee.


Andrew J. McDonald

McDonald opposed a Three Strikes Law favored by Governor Jodi Rell to mandate life terms to career violent criminals; that measure failed to pass.

Archie McLeod

Helen (died in 2007) was married to retired Church of Scotland minister and former Moderator Alexander "Sandy" McDonald and they had three children, the youngest of whom is actor David Tennant.

Aristide and the Endless Revolution

Rossier was the first media professional to get exclusive access to Aristide while in exile and the resultant interview is featured in the film, as well as interviews with many experts on Haiti, including U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, noted economist Jeffrey Sachs and Aristide's lawyer Ira J. Kurzban.

Arthur B. McDonald

Theoretical models of the Sun predict that neutrinos should be made in staggering numbers.

McDonald and Yoji Totsuka were awarded the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics "for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass".

Charles McDonald

Charles C. McDonald (born 1933), general in the United States Air Force

Craig Unger

According to Newsweek, George W. Bush couldn't have been involved with the Carlyle Group, which owned BDM, when the $1.18 billion deal was made, because "former president Bush didn't join the Carlyle advisory board until April, 1998—five months after Carlyle had already sold BDM to another defense firm."

David J. McDonald, Jr.

He is married to Maura McDonald and has two sons: Sean McDonald and Charles McDonald.

Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald

, 107 Fed. Appx. 18 (9th Cir. 2004).

Donald Blackburn

Following his retirement from military service, Blackburn took a position with Braddock Dunn & McDonald, where he served as vice president, special projects until he retired in 1979.

Edward F. McDonald

McDonald was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Harrison on November 5, 1892 just a few days before the Congressional election.

Eugene F. McDonald

Moving to Chicago in 1904, he became an automobile salesman with the Franklin Auto Company and, as a publicity stunt, once drove a car up the steps of the General Logan Monument in Grant Park—with a photographer present and a policeman there to arrest him.

Frank B. McDonald

From 1982 to 1987, as NASA Chief Scientist, McDonald was a principal adviser to the NASA administrator and other senior officials.

In 1959, McDonald became one of the first scientists to join NASA's new Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

He was a key force behind several initiatives and programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for which he served as chief scientist.

Frank McDonald

Frank B. McDonald (1925–2012), astrophysicist and creator of the Voyager probe

Hot Coffee

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, a 1994 product liability lawsuit involving spilt hot coffee

Ira J. Kurzban

He has also litigated numerous cases under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victim Protection Act, including obtaining a $500 million judgment against Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former dictator of Haiti.

J.M. McDonald

After about six months in Kemmerer, McDonald went to Spokane, Washington, to assists his brothers in a department store venture there.

In April 1905, McDonald moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming to assist James Cash Penney, a former neighbor of his in Hamilton, in operating his first store.

Upon his death, Mr. McDonald bequeathed the nucleus of the McDonald Farms herd of 365 head to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, to be maintained for a long-time breeding research program.

Joseph McDonald

Joseph A. McDonald (1866–1930), American businessman influential in the steel industry

Joseph E. McDonald (1819–1891), U.S. Representative and Senator from Indiana

Levelland, Texas

However, several prominent UFO researchers, among them Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University, disputed this explanation.

Matthew Riddle

Riddle faced Che Mills on February 16, 2013 at UFC on Fuel TV: Barao vs. McDonald.

Mr. Monk in Outer Space

This appears to be a take on Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, aka the "Hot Coffee Case", in which a woman in Albuquerque, New Mexico spilled her cup of coffee while in her car and suffered extensive third degree burns to her crotch.

Northern Wedding

Vice Admiral Wesley L. McDonald, Commander, Second Fleet, gave a news conference to a group of U.S. and international journalists in the carrier’s ‘War Room’ on the 9th, describing in some detail the significance of the exercise – normally held every four years – in preparing the allies to resist a Soviet-led attack against the West.

Renee Forte

In his next fight, Forte made his lightweight debut against Terry Etim on February 16, 2013 at UFC on Fuel TV: Barao vs. McDonald.

Richard Mandell

Architects such as A. W. Tillinghast, Donald Ross, Charles B. McDonald, and Seth Raynor inspired him through books, drawings and the courses they designed (which he was fortunate enough to play on occasion).

Robert A. McDonald

In 1989 he transferred to Toronto to lead P&G's Canadian Laundry business, and moved to the Philippines as General Manager in 1991.

P&G also divested its remaining food business, Pringles, exited the pharmaceutical business, increased its focus on discontinuous innovation through the establishment of transformational platform technologies and a new business creation group, and initiated a five-year, $10 billion productivity program.

Sexual abuse scandal in Bridgeport diocese

Bishop William E. Lori has opposed legislation by State Representative Michael P. Lawlor and State Senator Andrew J. McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it into the hands of laymen.

Trans-Oceanic

Zenith's founder, Commander Eugene F. McDonald, was a great admirer of advanced technological development and believed that his company's products should include the latest, most practical advances in a well-built product that continued to enhance the company's reputation.

Trinity Forum

The Trinity Forum was founded by author and social critic Os Guinness and Alonzo L. McDonald.

William E. Lori

Lori has opposed legislation in Connecticut proposed by State Rep. Michael P. Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it in the control of the laity.


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