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2 unusual facts about Richard M. Leonard


Cedric Wright

Among that social circle were Richard M. Leonard and his wife Doris, Francis P. Farquhar and his wife Marjorie, David Brower and his wife Anne, Edgar Wayburn and his wife Peggy, and Wright's best friends, Ansel Adams and his wife Virginia.

Richard M. Leonard

Richard Manning Leonard (October 22, 1908 – July 31, 1993) was an American rock climber, environmentalist and attorney.


After Office Hours

After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

Allen Sharp

On September 13, 1973, Sharp was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana vacated by Robert A. Grant.

Beth Kelly

In March 2010, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley named Kelly head of the city's LGBT advisory council for a three-year term.

Burton Natarus

After Washington's death and eventual replacement by Richard M. Daley, Natarus was as loyal to the son he had been to his father.

Charles Gary Allison

From 1963 to 1969 he chaired a non-partisan White House youth program under both the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon administrations, during which time he worked on a master's degree in international relations at Georgetown University.

Chicago Park District

The size and personnel of the park district was dramatically pared down during the reform administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley-appointed CEO Forrest Claypool in the mid-1990s.

Chicago Spire

Chicago Mayor Daley said he approved of the design, stating that it was environmentally friendly.

ConservAmerica

REP’s slogan, "Conservation is Conservative," is based on the traditional conservative philosophy of writers and thinkers such as British statesman Edmund Burke, President Theodore Roosevelt, and authors Russell Kirk, author of "The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot," and Richard Weaver, author of "Ideas Have Consequences."

David Packard

Upon entering office in 1969, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Packard U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.

Dinkytown

It's also the location of the 2nd store opened by Richard M. Schulze called "Sound of Music" which later became Best Buy.

Divvy

In 2007, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley visited Paris, France, where he personally tested out their Vélib' bicycle sharing system and was "greatly impressed".

Edmund D. Ellis

Colonel Edmund DeTreville Ellis (March 1890 - 1995) was a member of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1915 (the class the stars fell on) which included Henry Aurand, Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John W. Leonard, Henry Sayler, James Van Fleet, and a number of other famous generals.

Edward T. Hanley

Among the many notable individuals who Hanley counted among his friends were House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

Eshelman

In 1955, vice president Richard M. Nixon was photographed at a gasoline pump "fueling" a Child's Sport Car in a March of Dimes "Fill 'Er Up for Polio" publicity campaign while holding the pump nozzle at the car's rear.

Fern Persons

On July 27, 1999, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley officially declared "Fern Persons Day" to mark her 89th birthday.

Gallery 37

Gallery 37 is a job training program and was created in 1991 by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs' Lois Weisberg and Maggie Daley, wife of the city's former mayor, Richard M. Daley.

George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs

David Wilhelm, Visiting Professor of Leadership and Public Affairs, has managed campaigns for President Bill Clinton, Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Joe Biden, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Idiot defense

Richard M. Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth, became the first CEO to be charged with violating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Jack E. Leonard

Leonard narrated the theatrical release The World of Abbott and Costello which was not a documentary, but a compilation film consisting entirely of clips from Abbott and Costello movies.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

Joffrey Tower

The placement of the Joffrey Ballet in this building appears to have involved political dealings with the Mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley and his brother, William M. Daley, a co-chairman of the Joffrey board of trustees.

John B. Leonard

Chili Bar Bridge, spanning South Fork of American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado, California, 1922

John E. Leonard

Leonard attended the public schools and was later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1863 and then earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1867.

Leisurama house

The precursor to the final design was shown at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, which provoked the noted Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Marion Stamps

In 1994, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley skipped a news conference on job creation; fearing facing her.

Meteoritical Society

The Leonard Medal, awarded since 1966 in honor of the first President of the Society, Frederick C. Leonard, is given for outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics and closely allied fields.

Mike French

Michael "Mike" G. French was a three-time All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to 1976, teaming with fellow lacrosse Hall of Fame members Eamon McEneaney, Dan Mackesey, Bill Marino, Tom Marino, Bob Hendrickson, Chris Kane, and Richie Moran to lead the Cornell Big Red to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976.

Moses G. Leonard

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Nellie Fox

The group grew to as many as 600 members, including Richard M. Daley, James R. Thompson, George Will and several former MLB players.

Racial integration

Steinhorn, Leonard and Diggs-Brown, Barbara, By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race.

Richard Auguste Morse

His father, Richard M. Morse, was an American academic sociologist and writer, and his mother was a famous Haitian singer, Emerante de Pradines.

Richard M. Berman

A year later, he was appointed General Counsel and Executive Vice President of the Warner Cable Corporation, a position he held until 1986, when he returned to private practice.

Richard M. Langworth

Richard M. Langworth CBE (born 1941- ) is a Moultonborough, New Hampshire- and Eleuthera, Bahamas-based author of books and magazine articles, specializing in automotive history and Winston S. Churchill.

Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital

The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is part of the Wexner Medical Center, which dates back to 1834.

The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is located at The Ohio State University in Columbus,Ohio.

Richard M. Russell

He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, for election in 1950 to fill a vacancy in the Eighty-first Congress, and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress.

Richard M. Tobin

Tobin maintained homes in San Mateo and San Francisco, and was active in several San Francisco organizations as a board member, officer, and benefactor, including the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Musical Association, and Catholic church.

Richard Schulze

Richard M. Schulze (born 1941), American businessman, founder of Best Buy

Robert A. Leonard

He was Apple’s linguist in its civil trademark cases against both Microsoft and Amazon.

Secret Honor

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone (based on their play), and directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixon's personality, life, attitudes and behavior.

Sihanouk Trail

With the election of President Richard M. Nixon in 1968 and the announcement of the new American policy of Vietnamization in 1969, America's relations with Cambodia began to change.

Stan Zin

Previously, from 1988 to 2009 he was the Richard M. Cyert and Morris H. DeGroot Professor of Economics and Statistics at the David A. Tepper School of Business (previously the Graduate School of Industrial Administration) at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

Varian Medical Systems

Guertin had been the CEO since 2006 when he replaced Richard M. Levy, who had been with Varian for 37 years and still serves as chairman of the board of directors.

William Franklin Draper

Returning to painting, he became a well-known American artist, with subjects ranging from John F. Kennedy (painted in 1962), Richard M. Nixon, (1981), the Shah of Iran (painted in 1967), James Michener (1979), Henry Kaiser, and Dr. Richard E. Winter (1992).

Wollaton Antiphonal

The manuscript was in use at St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton from the 1460s, until Catholic Latin service books were banned in the Reformation in the 1540s.


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