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8 unusual facts about Robert R. 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.

Chicago Theater of the Air

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

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.

Port-Cartier

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

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.


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).

Buldir Volcano

A visit to study the geology of the island was permitted in 1947 for R.R. Coats.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Conflict Lens

Conflict style inventories, which first appeared in the 1960s, were most often based on the work of Robert R. Blake and Jane Mouton using their Managerial Grid Model.

Cryptolacerta

Cryptolacerta was named by Johannes Müller, Christy A. Hipsley, Jason J. Head, Nikolay Kardjilov, André Hilger, Michael Wuttke and Robert R. Reisz in 2011 and the type species is Cryptolacerta hassiaca.

Eagle-Lion Films

In 1947 it acquired Robert R. Young's PRC Pictures, a small American production company, to produce B Pictures to accompany the British releases.

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.

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.

Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World

Describes the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the roles served by French Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and François Barbé-Marbois and the Americans James Monroe and Robert Livingston.

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.

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.

Liberty Interactive

Liberty Media president and CEO Robert R. Bennett said the deal would benefit stockholders of both companies.

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".

Michael E. McCormick

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

Michel Laurin

As an undergraduate he worked in the laboratory of Robert L. Carroll and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the direction of Robert R. Reisz; his thesis concerned the osteology of seymouriamorphs.

Nelson B. McCormick

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

Paul Costa Jr

Additionally, the test measures six subordinate dimensions (known as 'facets') of each of the "FFM" personality factors, developed together with Robert McCrae.

Revised NEO Personality Inventory

The test was developed by Paul T. Costa, Jr. and Robert R. McCrae for use with adult (17+) men and women without overt psychopathology.

Robert Casey

Robert R. Casey (1915–1986), member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas

Robert J. McCormick

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

Robert Jennings

Robert R. Jennings, president of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

Robert R. Bergstrom

Due to his work in this case, and the eventual decision in favor of the defendants, Bergstrom won the Preeminent Bar Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Robert R. Coats

As part of the Alaska Branch of the USGS, he continued working in Alaska, mapping in the Chichagof, Anikovik, Nome, Solomon, Kigluaik and Kobuk River areas, among others.

Robert R. Gilruth

In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon he was played by John Carroll Lynch.

Robert R. Glauber

Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance from 1989 to 1992.

Robert R. King

While working for Radio Free Europe in Germany, he proposed returning the Holy Crown of Hungary to Hungary to help improve relations with that nation in a mock memo as part of his application to work in a White House Fellow for the Carter Administration.

Robert R. Korfhage

He was son of Dr. Roy Korfhage who as a chemist at Nestlé in Fulton, Oswego County, New York.

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Most engineering classes are held in the Technological Institute (1942), which students commonly refer to as "Tech."

The Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Engineering Education Program at Northwestern is based on a similar program at Northeastern University.

Robert R. Merhige, Jr.

One of Merhige's orders in that case was overturned on appeal on June 6, 1972, but not before influencing that year's presidential primary in Miami Beach, Florida.

Merhige authored the ruling of the three federal judge panel that rejected the appeals of Watergate criminals G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker, and Eugenio Martinez and upheld their criminal convictions for breaking into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.

Robert R. Nathan

In the 1950s he worked for a period as chair of Americans for Democratic Action and in this role was openly critical of Eisenhower's conservative policies.

Robert R. Odén

In 1959 the U.S. Olympic Committee asked him to be the official team doctor for the United States Ski Team during the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.

Robert R. Spano

In August 1998 he was employed as a legal adviser in the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland and was appointed Deputy to the Ombudsman in 2001, serving in that role until 2004.

Robert R. Whale

In 1852, Whale and his family emigrated to Canada, settling near Brantford, Ontario.

The Search for Robert Johnson

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

Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument

Most of them are based on the managerial grid developed by Robert R. Blake and Jane Mouton in their Managerial Grid Model.

United States presidential inauguration

When George Washington was inaugurated, the oath was administered by Robert Livingston, Chancellor of New York State, in 1789, and by William Cushing, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in 1793.

United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs

On August 10, 1781, Congress selected Robert R. Livingston, a delegate from New York, as the first Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

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.

Zdeněk Bažant

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant (born December 10, 1937) is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.


see also

Cantigny, Somme

About 10 years later, Colonel Robert R. McCormick named his estate in Illinois after the town.