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2 unusual facts about Lester L. Wolff


Guillermo Hernández-Cartaya

Rep. Lester L. Wolff stated on 60 Minutes that Cartaya's WFC arranged for Castro a 100 million USD loan to Colombia (the Colombian officials agreeing to aid cocaine smuggling).

Lester L. Wolff

He lost his bid for re-election to John LeBoutillier who was helped by Reagan's coattails in the 1980 House election.


Demag

In 1908, they designed what was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast, which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Dolorimeter

In 1940, James D. Hardy, Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell of Cornell University introduced the first dolorimeter as a method for evaluating the effectiveness of analgesic medications.

Enoch seminar

the United Kingdom (Lester L. Grabbe, Michael A. Knibb, Darrell D. Hannah, Loren Stuckenbruck)

the United Kingdom (Philip R. Davies, James R. Davila, Lester L. Grabbe, Charlotte Hempel, Michael A. Knibb, Timothy H. Lim)

Joseph C. Wolff

In 1864, he enlisted in the 2nd New York Light Cavalry Regiment as a bugler, and took part in the battles of Opequon, Cedar Creek and Five Forks.

Lester L. Grabbe

Lester L. Grabbe is a retired American scholar and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, England.

Lester L. Westling, Jr.

He was also the founding Vicar of the Emmanuel Mission, Tondo, Manila.

Following this early work in the United States, in January 1960 he continued his ministry overseas in the Republic of the Philippines, serving as Director of Easter School (Baguio City) and St. Elizabeth's School (Benguet Mines) in addition to circuit riding a dozen outstation missions in the Mountain Provine of Luzon.

In the article, "Prayers That Hurt," Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff writes of his time as a Naval officer in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, crediting Westling as the chaplain who inspired him to "grow as a Jew," and then make the decision to become a rabbi.

Louis Althusser

Althusser's influence is also seen in the work of economists Richard D. Wolff and Stephen Resnick, who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a conception of class different from the normally understood ones.

Richard D. Wolff

One of his students, George Papandreou, went on to become Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011.

Both would then be part, along with Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Rick Edwards, of the "radical package" that was hired in 1973 by the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Wolff has been full professor since 1981.

State capitalism

A relatively recent text by Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class Theory and History, explores what they term state capitalism in the former Soviet Union, continuing a theme that has been debated within Trotskyist theory for most of the past century.

Susan Millar

Her great grandfather Tommy Millar worked in Harland & Wolff building RMS Titanic and then sailed on her maiden voyage in 1912, as a crewmember.


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