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2 unusual facts about Thomas C. Fields


Thomas C. Fields

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.

Thomas Craig Fields (November 9, 1825 St. Lawrence County, New York – January 25, 1885 Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.


Association of MultiEthnic Americans

In 1989, AMEA issued a letter illustrating the concerns of their constituency to Congressman Thomas Sawyer, Chairman of the House subcommittee monitoring the census.

Byron Darnton

While author Leo Rosten is usually credited with the popular phrase “No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad,” used by him to describe comedian W. C. Fields, Darnton was in fact the first to use this phrase regarding an unknown man named Gastonbury.

Center for National Policy

Other CNP Board members have included former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Foley, former Republican Members of Congress Jack Buechner and Rod Chandler, and former Democratic Members of Congress John Brademas and Michael Barnes.

Craig Steven Wilder

He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University focusing on urban history, under the tutelage of Kenneth T. Jackson, as well as Barbara J. Fields, and Eric Foner.

De Alva S. Alexander

It focused on prominent political leaders such as Grover Cleveland, Thomas C. Platt, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Devil and the Deep

However, in the following year's film version of Alice in Wonderland, Grant played the Mock Turtle and Cooper played the White Knight, having their only movie scene together (of sorts) as the entire cast appears in the tea party scene (including W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty).

Epworth League

In the 1934 W. C. Fields movie It's a Gift, when Amelia Bissonette tells her husband Harold that his Uncle Bean has died, she says, "It seemed he was getting better, but he attended the Epworth League picnic, and he choked to death eating an orange."

Farewell Dossier

Thomas Reed alleged this was the cause of a spectacular trans-Siberian pipeline disaster in 1982.

Global Franchise Group

August 2007: Pretzel Time and Pretzelmaker, two franchised brands in the hand rolled pretzel category, acquired from Mrs. Fields.

Hiroo Kanamori

Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks developed the moment magnitude scale which replaced the Richter magnitude scale as a measurement of the relative strength of earthquakes.

Hot Sam Pretzels

Located mainly in malls, the chain was acquired by Mrs. Fields in 1995.

Institute on Religion and Democracy

Notable members of the organization's Board of Directors include journalist Fred Barnes, United Methodist theologian Dr. Thomas C. Oden, Princeton University ethicist Dr. Robert P. George, theologian Michael Novak and former papal biographer George Weigel.

Invasion of Palawan

A naval task force of cruisers and destroyers from the 7th Fleet under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid—which was Gen. Macarthur's naval command—would protect the landing forces on their movements to shore and then remain to provide gunfire as needed.

J. M. Fields

Many former J.M. Fields locations in the Northeast became either Kmart, Jefferson Ward (later Bradlees), or Caldor stores.

Kalmar Nyckel

The modern ship, designed by naval architects Thomas C. Gillmer, Melbourne Smith, Joel Welter, and Ken Court, was built at a shipyard in Wilmington on the Christina River near the original 1638 Swedish settlers' landing site at Fort Christina.

Lanier, Florida

Col. Thomas C. Lanier's personal groves are shown on the original plat.

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge

Another, Thomas was a renowned Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and trainer who won the 1902 Kentucky Derby.

New Democrat Coalition

Thomas C. Sawyer (OH-14), charter member, lost re-election following redistricting

Norman Z. McLeod

Other memorable films directed by McLeod includes It's a Gift (1934) with W. C. Fields, and the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Paleface starring Bob Hope (1948).

Owen O'Neill

Early comic influences included W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and particularly Richard Pryor: "It was also poignant and heartfelt and I realised then that stand-up could be an art-form".

St. Michael Elementary School

On August 6, 2006, a new Community Center was dedicated by the Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly and the current mayor of Louisville Jerry Abramson.

Supermarket Superstar

The panel of judges (who are referred to as mentors on the show) the contestants must face are Debbi Fields of Mrs. Fields Bakeries, Chris Cornyn of DINE, and Chiarello himself.

Task Force 61

Later, in October 1942, the Task Force, now under Rear Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, confronted a force directed by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the same area.

The Drunkard

In 1934, a production of The Drunkard was featured to comic effect in the W. C. Fields film The Old Fashioned Way.

The Man of Adamant

It later appeared in Hawthorne's final collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields.

Thomas C. Acton

Action was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children as well as a member of the Geographical and New York Historical Society.

Thomas C. Brown

He attended the public schools, and a business school in Belleville, Ontario.

Thomas C. Ferguson

From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC.

Thomas C. Hindman

Meanwhile, the younger Hindman attended local schools before leaving for the Lawrenceville Classical Institute in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the third oldest boarding school in the country.

He was elected as the Democratic representative from Arkansas's 1st congressional district in the Thirty-sixth Congress from March 4, 1859 to March 4, 1861.

Thomas C. Jerdon

This position led him to describe many species from the Malabar region including ants such as the distinctive Harpegnathos saltator.

Thomas C. McGrath, Jr.

In his first bid, for elective office, McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, defeating four-term Republican Party incumbent Milton W. Glenn.

Thomas C. Molesworth

Molesworth's company and career received a major boost in 1933 when he was commissioned by publisher Moses Annenberg to design the interior furnishings for Annenberg's Ranch A retreat near Beulah, Wyoming.

Thomas C. Platt

He became a member of the Forty-seventh Congress and the chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills.

Thomas C. Reed

While maintaining an interest in Supercon Ltd., Reed organized the Quaker Hill Development Corporation at San Rafael, California, in 1965, and served as its treasurer, president and chairman.

Thomas C. Richards

After completing tactical combat crew training and airborne training in October 1966, Richards was assigned to the 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron at Bien Hoa Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, as a forward air controller with the 101st Airborne Division.

Thomas C. Stanford

After a brief stay there, he located a homestead in the Little Wood River valley, which was the center of his operations as a rancher and stockman.

Thomas Coffin

Thomas C. Coffin (1887–1934), a United States politician who was a United States Representative from Idaho

Thomas Corrigan

Thomas C. Corrigan, Sr. (born 1938), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Thomas Durant

Thomas C. Durant (1820-1885), American financier and railroad promoter

Thomas Sharp

Thomas C. Sharp, opponent of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Latter Day Saints

Thomas Slater

Thomas C. Slater (1945–2009), Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives

White-naped Tit

This species was discovered in the Eastern Ghats near Nellore by T C Jerdon who received a specimen from a local hunter.

William J. Fields

In September 1923, Democratic gubernatorial nominee J. Campbell Cantrill died, leaving the party without a candidate.

When Democratic gubernatorial nominee J. Campbell Cantrill died unexpectedly two months before the general election, the Democratic Central Committee chose Fields to replace Cantrill as the nominee.

William K. Everson

His nearly 20 books include Classics of the Silent Screen (1959, attributed to nostalgia maven Joe Franklin but actually written by Everson), The American Movie (1963), The Films of Laurel and Hardy (1967), The Art of W. C. Fields (1967), A Pictorial History of the Western Film (1971), and American Silent Film (1978).


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