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2 unusual facts about Richard W. Cook


Richard W. Cook

From 1958 to 1973 Cook was employed as an executive at American Machine and Foundry Company and at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Richard W. Cook (August 8, 1907 – October 26, 1992) was born in Muskegon, Michigan.


American Customer Satisfaction Index

Both the Swedish version and the ACSI were developed by Claes Fornell, now Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, and chairman of CFI Group.

American Monetary Institute

While 2013 speakers are still unconfirmed, past speakers have included: Michael Hudson, Richard C. Cook, William K. Black, Dennis Kucinich, and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Burton C. Cook

He served as chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canals (Fortieth Congress), and the Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-first Congress).

Cook was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1865, to August 26, 1871, when he resigned.

Colcock

Richard W. Colcock (born 1806), Superintendent of the Citadel, (Military College of South Carolina), 1844–1852

Donald G. Cook

After retirement, Cook was elected to the Board of Directors of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Crane Corporation, HawkerBeechcraft Corporation and USAA Federal Savings Bank.

First Call

In late 1994, First Call acted as the backup group for David L. Cook's inspirational single, "When Heaven is My Home".

Fred J. Cook

Cook's 1964 book, Goldwater: Extremist on the Right, initiated a series of events which in the end led to the Supreme Court decision in what is known as the Red Lion case: After the book appeared, Cook was attacked by conservative evangelist Billy James Hargis on his daily Christian Crusade radio broadcast, on WGCB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.

His 1964 exposé, The FBI Nobody Knows, was central to the plot of one of Rex Stout's most popular Nero Wolfe novels, The Doorbell Rang (1965).

Gene Cook

Gene R. Cook (born 1941), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

George W. F. Cook

Cook was also a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1964 and 1968.

Guild of Scholars of The Episcopal Church

The Guild was founded in 1945 and has included such eminent members as Cleanth Brooks, Brooks Otis, Henry Babcock Veatch, Frederick Pottle, W. H. Auden, Dell Hymes, Hyatt Waggoner and Richard W. Bailey.

Jack W. Smith

Perhaps for this reason, he moved to Ellistown in Coalville, where he was elected agent for the Leicestershire Miners' Association (LMA), replacing Levi Lovett, and he was soon elected onto the executive committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), where he was a supporter of A. J. Cook.

Kalloor Chacko

Coming into contact with the American missionary Robert F. Cook in the 1920s, Chacko invited Cook to move to Thrikkannamangal from North India.

Mary Cook

Mary N. Cook (born 1951), American religious leader of the Young Women in the LDS Church

Melvin A. Cook

For his work in discovering slurry explosives, Cook received a Nitro Nobel Gold Medal in 1968, only the second time the award had been given (and which has been awarded only once since).

Mike Nappa

He has also served as a fiction acquisitions editor for Barbour Publishing, as a general acquisitions editor (fiction and non-fiction) for David C. Cook publishers, and as Editor in Chief of the short-lived Destination Magazine (published by Private Escapes Luxury Destination Clubs).

National Minority Movement

Other prominent figures included Wal Hannington, in charge of organization of the metal workers until transferred by the party to work organising the unemployed, the engineer J.T. "Jack" Murphy and coal miners A. J. Cook, Arthur Horner and Nat Watkins.

New Jersey Meadowlands Commission

These parks include Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, home to a butterfly garden, World Trade Center Memorial, overlook of New York City, several trails, and the NJMC's Meadowlands Environment Center.

Pleistodontes macrocainus

Pleistodontes macrocainus was described by Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Dale Dixon and James M. Cook in 2002 based on specimens collected from Ficus cerasicarpa.

Richard C. Cook

As a Resource Analyst at NASA's Comptroller's Office, Richard C. Cook was responsible for assessing the budgetary implications of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), External Tank, and Centaur Upper Stage of the Space Shuttle program.

Documentation further suggests the Rogers Commission was conceived as part of a cover-up effort, including collusion by some NASA managers, White House operatives and commission head William P. Rogers.

Richard O'Neill

Richard W. O'Neill (1898–1982), U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Richard Richards

Richard W. Richards (1893–1985), Australian explorer with Ross Sea Party 1914–17, awarded the Albert Medal

Richard W. Bailey

In 2008, Bailey co-authored an amicus brief with colleagues Dennis Baron and Jeffrey Kaplan, for the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, providing an interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on the grammars, dictionaries, and general usage common in the founders' day, and showing that those meanings are still common today.

Richard W. Blue

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Richard W. Bourne

He was reappointed as Chair of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust in September 2009, after chairing it for four years.

Richard W. Dowling

The Thermopylae of Lieutenant Dick Dowling, in The Irish Sword by Patrick Denis O'Donnell, VOL.XXIII, no.91, Military History Society of Ireland, Dublin, Summer 2002 (pages 68–86)

Richard W. Gilsdorf

He served his first appointment at St. John Church in Little Chute, Wisconsin, for two years, and then received assignment to the faculty of Sacred Heart Minor Seminary near Green Bay.

After several years of serious illness, Gilsdorf died on May 4, 2005, and was buried at St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Howard, Wisconsin, near his father’s and mother’s tombs.

For the final 23 years of his life he served as pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Casco, Wisconsin.

Richard W. Haines

This job led to a six-year association with Troma Entertainment as the company's post-production supervisor when Charles Kaufman sent Haines over to his brother Lloyd Kaufman after Haines satisfied them with his editing and sound editing work on the film.

Haines' next project was the 1994 sci-fi thriller Head Games, followed the by action film Run for Cover (1995), which starred Adam West and featured the final film appearance of Viveca Lindfors.

Richard W. Higgins

He is depicted as one of four examples in bravery in the history of the German Air Force.

Richard W. Hoffman

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957).

Richard W. Leopold Prize

A 3-member committee, chosen by the President of the OAH, chooses the best history book on U.S. federal government agencies, U.S. foreign policies, U.S. military affairs, or biographies of government officials.

Richard W. Mallary

He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate, losing to present U.S. Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy in his initial run for the U.S. Senate.

In between his service as Vermont Secretary of Administration, Mallary was elected as a Republican, by special election, to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Robert T. Stafford, and reelected to the Ninety-third Congress, serving from January 7, 1972-January 3, 1975.

Richard W. Richards

Richard Richards was awarded the Albert Medal in 1923 for his efforts on the ice to save the lives of Spencer-Smith and Mackintosh, this award being converted in 1971 to the George Cross, an exchange offered to all Albert Medal holders then living.

Richard W. Townshend

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fiftieth Congress).

Robert L. Cook

Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software.

Samuel E. Cook

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress.

Simon Cook

Simon S. Cook (1831–1892), Canadian lumber merchant and political figure

T. J. Cook

Cook made his debut on July 22, 2011, at Strikeforce Challengers: Bowling vs. Voelker replacing an injured Guto Inocente against Lionel Lanham.

William W. Cook

He practiced law for many years in Manhattan, primarily for the Mackay telegraph and cable companies, and amassed a substantial fortune.


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