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Mary E. Cobb

The industry which she pioneered would outpace her own company under her son's direction who lacked the innovative speed of new innovators like Max Factor and Elizabeth Arden.


Albert Taylor Goodwyn

He successfully contested as a Populist the election of James E. Cobb to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from April 22, 1896, until March 3, 1897.

Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

He also made films aimed at the English speaking audience, his 1968 caper movie 'They came to rob Las Vegas' featured Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb and Jack Palance.

Camp Wyonegonic

Wyonegonic was founded by organized camping pioneer Charles E. Cobb in 1902.

Center for Process Studies

Its current co-directors include the process scholars Philip Clayton, John B. Cobb, Monica Coleman, Roland Faber, David Ray Griffin, and Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki.

Charles Hartshorne

In turn Hartshorne has been a seminal influence on the theologians Matthew Fox, Daniel Day Williams, Norman Pittenger, Gregory A. Boyd, Schubert Ogden and John B. Cobb, on the American philosopher Frank Ebersole and on the Australian biologist-futurologist Charles Birch.

Cobb Stadium

It is named after former UM Chairman of the Board, Charles Cobb.

Consumers Cooperative Services

It was founded in 1920 by a group of socially minded women, among them Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, Dorothy Kenyon, Mary LaDame and Ruth True.

Cuatro Torres Business Area

Designed by Henry N. Cobb and built by Obrascón Huarte Lain, the 57-storey Torre Espacio (Spanish for Space Tower) is 224.5 metres (736 feet) tall.

Fulbright Commission Iceland

The Cobb Family Fellowship is funded by a former US Ambassador to Iceland Charles E. Cobb.

George Cobb

George H. Cobb (1864–1943), acting Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1910

George H. Cobb

He was a member of the Nw York State Commsission for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.

George T. Cobb

He returned to New Jersey, and was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863, and declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862.

Humphrey Cobb

Another American writer named Cobb, the unrelated Irvin S. Cobb, also wrote a World War I book called Paths of Glory (1915), a non-fiction account of his journalistic experiences during the war.

James E. Cobb

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to April 21, 1896, when he was succeeded by Albert T. Goodwyn, who contested his election.

Cobb was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895).

Jefferson B. Snyder

Guests included the Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb and the journalist Bob Davis, the columnist who penned "Bob Davis Recalls" for the Joseph Pulitzer newspaper chain.

John B. Cobb

Gary Dorrien has described Cobb as one of the two most important North American theologians of the twentieth century (the other being Rosemary Radford Ruether).

Karl E. Peters

His thesis compliments the thinking of theologians such as John B. Cobb, Arthur Peacocke, and Ted Peters and American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Majczek and Marcinkiewicz

The details of the case were used as the basis of the 1948 movie Call Northside 777 starring James Stewart and Lee J. Cobb.

Mary Butler

Mary E.L. Butler (1874–1920), Irish writer and Irish-language activist

Mary E. Britton

In 1859, along with older sister Julia Britton Hooks (later known as a gifted musician and educator, as well as Berea's first African American teacher), she was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, and was placed in the late Mr. WM.

Mary E. Mann

It was directed by Orla O'Loughlin and written by Steven Canny.

Mary E. Surratt Boarding House

In April, 2011 the house gained some attention with the release of a film about Mary Surratt, The Conspirator by director Robert Redford.

Mary E. Sweeney

When the Morrill Act passed in 1862, the "mechanic arts" became an important curricular reform movement for the U.S., offering wider access to education which until that time had focused on preparing young men for white-collar professions.

A model for child development laboratories, the research and model programs coming out of this institution eventually led to the development of national standards for the federal Head Start Program.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky on October 11, 1879, to Dr. W. O. Sweeney and Margaret Prewitt Sweeney, Mary E. Sweeney attended Transylvania University where she received her bachelor's degree in 1899.

Mary Surratt House

Mary E. Surratt Boarding House, in Washington, D.C., also known as Mary E. Surratt House

Masao Abe

He has been perennially involved with: the East-West Philosophers' Conference at the University of Hawaii; and the International Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter (the "Abe-Cobb group") which, along with Professor John B. Cobb, Jr., Abe directed.

Michael Clemente

Clemente was reportedly the inspiration for the character of waterfront boss "Johnny Friendly", played by Lee J. Cobb, in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.

Norvell P. Cobb

Col. Cobb was himself a direct descendant of a number of early prominent colonist including Ambrose Cobbs, Edward Stratton, Richard Cocke of Bremo and John Pleasants, as well as the interpreter William Woodward by his daughter Martha who married thrice William Bigger, Gideon Macon and Nathaniel West (captain).

Pete Dexter

Dexter was roughed up at that meeting and later returned with his friend heavyweight prizefighter Randall "Tex" Cobb.

Roberta Shore

Shore was featured very prominently as a series regular within the first three seasons of The Virginian as Betsy Garth, the daughter of Shiloh Ranch owner Judge Garth played by Lee J. Cobb.

Roland Faber

Roland Faber (born 1960) is an author and Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Process Studies at Claremont Lincoln University and Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University.

Stephen A. Cobb

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress.

The Left Hand of God

Set at a small American mission in China in 1947, at a time of civil war, it stars Humphrey Bogart masquerading as a Catholic priest and Gene Tierney in the role of a nurse, with a supporting cast including Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E. G. Marshall, and Carl Benton Reid.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

The novel was made into a movie in 1956, starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones as Tom and Betsy Rath, with Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Keenan Wynn and Marisa Pavan in supporting roles.

Thomas Cobb

Thomas W. Cobb (1784–1830), United States Representative and Senator from Georgia

Thomas R. Cobb

Cobb was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses).

Wilson Magnet High School

Mary E. Clarke, was a director of the Women's Army Corps and the first woman to attain the rank of major general in the United States Army.

World Trade Center Barcelona

WTCB building structure was inspired by the shape of a boat surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, and created by American architect Henry N. Cobb.


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