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Peter Brennan

Peter J. Brennan (1918–1996), United States Secretary of Labor under Presidents Nixon and Ford


Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University

Works featured in recent seasons have included Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, Beethoven's Symphonies 6 and 7, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (narrated by the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes), and Villa-Lobos' Sinfonietta No. 1.

Bernard Segal

In 1981, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review devoted a unique issue to Segal, with tributes from Supreme Court Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judges Arlin M. Adams and Louis H. Pollak and other legal luminaries.

British Entomological and Natural History Society

Another title published by BENHS was New British Beetles - species not in Joy's practical handbook by Peter J. Hodge and Richard A. Jones, a companion volume to Norman H. Joy's A Practical Handbook of British Beetles.

Burnham v. Superior Court of California

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote an opinion also joined by three other Justices.

College of Insurance

The Manhattan location of the college now houses many graduate business and professional programs of St. John's Peter J. Tobin College of Business.

Dan Zetterström

He is best known as a co-author of the highly acclaimed Collins Bird Guide, with Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson and Peter J. Grant.

David Lewis Rice

Charles Goldmark's brother is Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands and head of the Washington Department of Natural Resources Peter J. Goldmark.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Court candidates

During his two terms in office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed five members of the Supreme Court of the United States: Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Associate Justices John Marshall Harlan, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.

Emily Deschanel

In 2005, Emily Deschanel was chosen for the role of Dr. Temperance Brennan on Fox's Bones, a series based on the fictional novels of real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

Eyewitness identification

Although it has been observed, by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in his dissent to Watkins v. Sowders, that witness testimony is evidence that "juries seem most receptive to, and not inclined to discredit".

First National Bank of Omaha

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote that the 1863 law permitted a national bank to charge interest at the rate allowed by the regulations of the state in which the lending institution is located.

George X. Schwartz

He brought Lynne Abraham onto his staff to do legislative and policy work for him after she lost another city job because she got caught up in the political infighting between him, Frank Rizzo, and the head of the Democratic City Committee, Peter Camiel.

Hans Gulbranson

He was succeeded by Peter J. K. Petersen in both positions, in 1868 and 1858 respectively.

J. J. Brennan

In a senior inter-county career that lasted from 1905 until 1914 he won four All-Ireland titles and four Leinster titles.

John Arthur Thomson

According to Peter J. Bowler Thomson was a popular science writer who had promoted a nonmaterialist interpretation of science though his interpretation was not accepted by all within the scientific community as some had claimed his views were neovitalist and thus outdated.

Joseph Brennan

Joseph E. Brennan (born 1934), U.S. politician, former Governor of Maine

Justice Brennan

William J. Brennan, Jr., former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Thomas E. Brennan, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and founder of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Manas International Airport

The American forces christened the site "Ganci Air Base", after New York Fire Department chief Peter J. Ganci, Jr., who was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

MANual Enterprises v. Day

Justice William Brennan, joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas, concurred but would have decided the case on much narrower technical rather than First Amendment grounds.

Merrick B. Garland

Considered a judicial moderate, Garland told senators during his U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1995 that the U.S. Supreme Court justice for whom he had the greatest admiration was Chief Justice John Marshall, and that he had personal affection for the justice for whom he clerked, Justice William Brennan.

Michael Brennan

Michael F. Brennan, Mayor of Portland and former United States Democratic Party State Senator in Maine

Peter J. A. Lucas

The 8th DLI confronted the German assault with no supporting weapons – the few Valentine tanks and anti-tank guns were unable to cross the wadi - and no air support, since the aircraft had been grounded by torrential rain.

After routing the Americans at the Kasserine Pass he dug his army in at the old French frontier position at Mareth and, a sick man, departed for Europe, leaving Von Arnim in charge.

Peter J. Bentley

Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Reader and College Fellow at UCL and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST.

Peter J. Bowler

He has made appearances on local radio, including interviews with William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster shows TalkBack and Sunday Sequence - here he defended evolution and highlighted the non-scientific nature of creationism.

Peter J. Brand

He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis.

This was later published by Brill in 2000 and is considered to be one of the most comprehensive studies on the reign of Seti I who is often eclipsed in history by the glorious 66-year reign of his son, Ramesses II.

It contains a catalogue of most of Seti I's monuments and an important discussion of the historical significance and reigns of Ramesses I and Seti I. Brand also attended the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis prior to the University of Toronto.

Peter J. Cutino Award

Former major league baseball commissioner and US Olympic Committee chair Peter Ueberroth, himself once a water polo player at San Jose State, presented the first awards on January 22, 2000.

Peter J. Dooling

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Sixty-fifth Congress).

Peter J. Dyck

He graduated from Rosthern Junior College and attended the University of Saskatchewan, but dropped out to pastor several struggling local churches.

Peter J. Fos

Prior to accepting the presidency of UNO, Fos was provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Peter J. Hamilton

At times, Hamilton had tense relations with a fellow Wilson appointee, Governor of Puerto Rico Arthur Yager.

Peter J. Moore

The album was released in early 1988 on Latent Records in Canada, and re-released worldwide in 1989 by RCA New York.

Peter J. Quinn

He is noted for his controversial support for OpenDocument, a standard format for office documents (ISO/IEC 26300).

Peter Kelly

Peter J. Kelly, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000–2012

Peter Murray

Peter J. Murray (born 1951), retired mathematics teacher and children's author

Peter Ryan

Peter J. Ryan (1841–1908), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Peter Wagner

Peter J. Wagner (born 1964), American paleontologist and Smithsonian curator

Shields Library

The Peter J. Shields Library or Shields Library is a four-story library named after Peter J. Shields.

Siavash Haroun Mahdavi

in Intelligent Systems at University College London and continued his research to complete a doctorate in Evolutionary robotics under the supervision of Dr. Peter J. Bentley.

The Sentimentalists

Peggy Clark Schwartz (the widow of clarinetist Willie Schwartz of the Glenn Miller Orchestra), later recalled, in the Tommy Dorsey biography, authored by Peter J. Levinson, that she and her sisters may have been a little naive when they originally went to work for Dorsey: "In those days, you had to be young and stupid. You also had to be pretty needy ... it was almost comical when you look at it; it was part of the growing-up process!"

Transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality

The current mayor, Peter Kelly, and several regional councillors have favoured instituting a commuter rail or a light rail system on current and abandoned railway lines and several streets in the urban core, however such a proposal would require provincial and federal funding and agreement with railway companies.

William Brennan

William J. Brennan, Jr. (1906–1997), former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

William Emmett Dever

In 1923, Democratic party boss George E. Brennan selected Dever as having the best chance of defeating incumbent mayor William "Big Bill" Thompson.


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