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38 unusual facts about Robert "Mack" McCormick


Baie-Comeau

Baie-Comeau itself (the eastern part of the current town) was founded in 1936 when a paper mill was constructed by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

Battle of Cantigny

The American Battle Monuments Commission erected a monument in the village of Cantigny that was dedicated on 9 August 1937 with a speech given (at the invitation of General John J. Pershing) by Col. Robert R. McCormick, who had commanded the 1st Battalion of the 5th Field Artillery regiment at the battle.

In the center of Cantigny, a small monument was dedicated in 2005 by the McCormick Foundation to commemorate the participation of Major Robert R. McCormick in the historic 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, the oldest American military unit on continuous active duty (dating back to the American Revolutionary War), then part of the First Division.

Bob Martin

Robert "Bob" Martin (born 1948), American magazine editor and screenwriter

Chicago Theater of the Air

Intermission commentary was originally by conductor Henry Weber and later by Chicago publisher Robert R. McCormick.

Coolie Ranx

He was discovered in 1990 when the lead singer and guitarist of The Toasters, Rob "Bucket" Hingley, heard Ranx's dancehall reggae EP.

Francis Lyman Worden

In 1868, Worden and Higgins sold their business interests in Deer Lodge and, with Washington J. McCormick, planned 100 acres of the townsite of Missoula.

George Seldes

Seldes returned to Europe, but found that his work increasingly censored to fit the political views of the newspaper's owner, Robert R. McCormick.

Japanese naval codes

In June 1942 the Chicago Tribune, run by isolationist Col. Robert R. McCormick, published an article that implied that the United States had broken the Japanese codes.

John D. McCormick

McCormick is not to be confused with John P. McCormick, a deputy editorial page editor for the Chicago Tribune whom Blagojevich allegedly pressured the Tribune to fire in November and December 2008.

He is a 1987 graduate of Roseville (Minnesota) Area High School and 1991 graduate of the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota).

The Washington Post made mention of the exchange in a column by Dana Milbank.

About a month after graduation, he started a job at the Rochester Post-Bulletin in southeastern Minnesota, where he covered police, courts, local government, before being assigned to cover the Minnesota Legislature and state government in St. Paul.

John P. McCormick

McCormick is not to be confused with another Chicago Tribune editorial employee, reporter John D. McCormick, who covered the campaign of Barack Obama.

John W. McCormick

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Joseph F. McCormick

He was commissioned in the United States Army as a second lieutenant in the infantry, serving for two years with the 82nd Airborne Division and two years with the 1st Ranger Battalion until leaving active duty in 1988 as a captain.

Joseph M. McCormick

In 1907–1908, he spent some time under the care of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung in Zurich, and subsequently followed Jung's advice to detach himself from the family newspaper.

Leander J. McCormick

He was the fourth of five sons and was raised at the family homestead known as Walnut Grove, near Raphine in Rockbridge County, in the Shenandoah Valley on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Lightnin' Hopkins

In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.

Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".

Mack, Colorado

The town was named after the president of Mack Motor Company, because it was chosen to build the line from the remote Uintah Basin to the railroad, to transport Gilsonite.

Mack, Minnesota

Lake Jessie Township is also in the vicinity.

Mack is located along the boundary line between Bowstring Township and Marcell Township.

Mark Burger

Father Mark Burger is the pastor at Our Lady of the Visitation church in Mack, Ohio, United States.

Megalith Records

It is owned by Robert "Bucket" Hingley of The Toasters and the defunct label Moon Ska Records, and managed by Jeremy Patton, current webmaster and graphic artist for the Toasters.

Michael E. McCormick

He began his career in 1958 as a hydrodynamicist at the U. S. Navy's David Taylor Model Basin.

Morey Leonard Sear

Roemer, the father of future Governor Buddy Roemer and Marcello, a New Orleans crime figure, were convicted and imprisoned for conspiracy, but Young, a former aide to Governor John J. McKeithen and current staffer to then Lieutenant Governor Robert "Bobby" Freeman, was acquitted of all charges.

Nelson B. McCormick

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Port-Cartier

In 1915, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, owner of the Chicago Tribune, visited the Rochers River area to evaluate its forest potential.

Psychotronic Video

The book was written by Weldon with editorial assistance from Charles Beesley, Fangorias Bob Martin, and Akira Fitton.

Robert Barbers

Robert "Ace" Barbers, Jr. is the incumbent governor of Surigao del Norte who previously became congressman representing the 2nd District of the same province.

Robert J. McCormick

He was raised in Brooklyn, graduating from James Madison High School in 1965.

McCormick graduated from St. Johns University with a degree in Spanish Literature, Italian, and French.

Robert McIntosh

Robert "Say" McIntosh (born 1943), restaurateur and political activist from Little Rock, Arkansas

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, and even Welles' own life were used in creating Kane.

The Search for Robert Johnson

The film is loosely organised around field work by Johnson researcher Robert "Mack" McCormick.

Von Dutch

After Howard's death in 1992, his daughters sold the Von Dutch name to Michael Cassel and Robert Vaughn.

Washington J. McCormick

Mccormick was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 - March 4, 1923), but was unsuccessful in his reelection bid in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.


Allfrumtha I

After their impressive work on Bow Down, Allfrumtha I was signed by Mack 10 to his then-fledgling Hoo-Bangin' Records, and in 1998 released its self-titled debut album.

America First Committee

Nearly half came from a few millionaires such as William H. Regnery, H. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Company, General Robert E. Wood of Sears-Roebuck, Sterling Morton of Morton Salt Company, publisher Joseph M. Patterson (New York Daily News) and his cousin, publisher Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune).

Angst in My Pants

The album was recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, produced by Mack in association with Giorgio Moroder Enterprises.

Anthony Mack

Robert A. McGowan (1901–1955), film writer and director, usually credited as "Anthony Mack"

Badge Man

In 1982 Gary Mack, the longtime curator and archivist for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (the former Texas School Book Depository) first claimed to discover the "Badge Man" figure.

Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1937

Connie Mack and John McGraw, who had been excellent players in the 1890s and had gone on to be the winningest managers in their respective leagues - Mack with 9 American League pennants and 5 World Series titles, and McGraw with 10 National League pennants and 3 World Series titles;

Earle Mack

During the 1937 and 1939 seasons, Mack managed the Athletics when his father (by then in his mid-70s) was ill.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Elliott Organick

Organick described the Burroughs large systems in an ACM monograph of which he was the sole author, covering the work of Robert (Bob) Barton and others.

Florence Auer

During her early years as a motion picture actress, Auer would appear opposite such publicly popular actors of the early 20th century as: Florence Lawrence, Florence Turner, Maurice Costello, Owen Moore, Robert "Bobby" Harron and Julia Swayne Gordon.

Gaston, South Carolina

Gaston area students go to schools in Lexington School District 4, Frances Mack Intermediate and Sandhills Middle are located in Gaston, while the Early Childhood Center, Sandhills Primary, Sandhills Elementary, Swansea High Freshmen Academy and Swansea High School are located in Neighboring Swansea, South Carolina

GospoCentric Records

GospoCentric Records is an Inglewood, California based Gospel music record label started as an independent label by Vicki Mack Lataillade and Claude Lataillade in 1993.

Granville Liggins

In his autobiography, Fighting Back, former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Robert "Rocky" Bleier lauded Liggins as perhaps the fastest defensive lineman Bleier had ever faced during his college career.

Griffin McMaster

He is the grandson of former Wallabies great Robert 'Bob' Esmond McMaster and also the son of comedian/impressionist and former rugby league player, Danny McMaster.

Helen Mack Chang

After more than a decade of seeking justice in Guatemala, Mack Chang took the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC, and later to the Inter-American Court in Costa Rica.

Beginning in 1991, Helen Mack Chang pursued prosecution in Guatemala of those suspected of the crime, which included several men trained at the US Army School of the Americas (later renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).

House of Nassau

The Counts of Laurenburg and Nassau expanded their authority under the brothers Robert (Ruprecht) I (1123–1154) and Arnold I of Laurenburg (1123–1148).

Iris Mack

Iris Mack, PhD, EMBA earned a Harvard doctorate in Applied Mathematics and a London Business School Sloan Fellow MBA.

In addition, Dr. Mack has also spent some of her professional career at NASA, Boeing and AT&T Bell Laboratories – where she obtained a patent for research on optical fibers.

Jerry Livingston

With Mack David he was nominated three times for the Academy Awards, the first time in 1951 for the song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella (1950), again in 1960 for the song "The Hanging Tree" from the film of the same name (1959), and the last time for "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" (from the 1965 film Cat Ballou) in 1966.

John Wesley Wright

That alleged—the news of Mack's surrender at Ulm — is absurd, especially to a naval officer who had also the news of Trafalgar.

Karl Mack von Leiberich

Mack makes a brief appearance as a character in book one of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Lee Caplin

Caplin is co-owner of Keystone Studios the successor to America's first motion picture studio, founded by Mack Sennett in 1912.

Lee Mack

Mack went on to have various other jobs, and did his first open mike slot in 1994, while studying at Brunel University from which he graduated with a degree in film and television.

Now's the Time to Fall in Love

The song is referenced in the 1962 Academy Award nominated animated short Disney musical film, A Symposium on Popular Songs during the song, "Although I Dropped $100,000" written by Al Sherman's songwriter sons, Robert & Richard Sherman.

Sherman Q. Mack

In 1990, Mack graduated from Holden High School in Holden in Livingston Parish.

Sydmonton

Robert took the name of Kingsmill in 1766, became an admiral and was created Baronet Kingsmill in 1800.

The BillyBones

Based in Los Angeles, California, the band features Steven William "Billy Bones" Fortuna, formerly of The Skulls (U.S. Band), guitarist Alex Mack, drummer Alex Gomez, formerly of U.S. Bombs tenor saxophone Bad Otis Link, (visual artist) Bass Easy Lou Jones, Rhythm Guitar Dustin "Damone" Snodgrass

There Goes the Fear

The B-side "Hit the Ground Running" is an adaptation of "Werewolves of London," written by Warren Zevon, Leroy Marinell, and Robert "Waddy" Wachtel.

Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society

The locations vary from time to time, but there is usually one in Presentation College, San Fernando run by Anthony Lee-Mack, 9Y4AL.

Volvo Trucks

Today, Volvo produces class 8 Volvo trucks in its Dublin, Virginia plant and class 8 Mack truck models in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

Westside Connection

Westside Connection began performing together in 1994, appearing on Mack 10's self-titled debut album, Mack 10, on the song "Westside Slaughterhouse".

WKSY-LD

From its transmitter atop the Mack White Gap east of Summerville, in addition to cable coverage, WKSY-LD covers northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama, including Rome, Dalton and Ringgold, Georgia; as well as Fort Payne, Alabama.

Yoko Kikuchi

"Menahan Tree" (2008) is an EP of songs recorded in the living room of the house/venue she shared from 2007-2010 with Jacinta Mack and Angela Carlucci (The Baby Skins, Herman Dune).

You Want This

Thomas, Donald Boyce, George Brown, Richard Westfield, Robert "Kool" Bell, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Ronald Bell, Richard Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer, Henry Cosby, Deke Richards