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Thomas Bata

Thomas J. Bata (1914–2008), Tomáš's son who led the corporation through the 1980s

Thomas J. Bata

In 2007 he received the FIRST Award for Responsible Capitalism, the lifetime Achievement Medal.


American Airlines Flight 6780

Patterson was returning from meeting Thomas J. Watson of IBM, who had just hired him for a new case on the previous day.

Celtic Ash

On the advice of Irish-born trainer Tom Barry, Celtic Ash was purchased by Boston, Massachusetts banker Joseph E. O'Connell, who imported him to the United States to race for his Green Dunes Farm.

Conscription in Australia

Other notable opponents to Conscription included the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix, the Queensland Labor Premier Thomas Ryan, Vida Goldstein and the Women's Peace Army.

Customer engineer

Originally simply engineer, those who specialized in servicing IBM equipment in use by its customers were designated customer engineers by Tom Watson circa 1942.

Donald Edmond Pelotte

On January 3, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, as apostolic administrator sede plena of the diocese of Gallup, and granted Pelotte a one year leave of absence to continue his recovery.

Hennen

Thomas J. Hennen (born 1952), United States Army warrant officer and astronaut

J. A. Chapman

In June 1867, mayor Thomas J. Holmes, who had been appointed the previous year after the resignation of Henry Failing, was elected to a full term, and then died the following morning.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a frequent critic of the church hierarchy, indicates that he fits the mold of a “smiling conservative” in the vein of New York’s Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who is “very gracious but still holds the same positions” as a more pugnacious cleric like Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who has not hesitated to call out Catholic politicians who dissent from church teachings on abortion.

Masao Abe

Herein Abe's essay "Kenotic God and Dynamic Sunyata" appears, which is addressed by one Jewish (Eugene Borowitz) and six Christian (Thomas J. J. Altizer, John B. Cobb, Jr., Catherine Keller, Jürgen Moltmann, Schubert M. Ogden, and David Tracy) theologians.

Mayor Murphy

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. (born August 15, 1944), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Parke County, Indiana

The architects for this building were Thomas J. Tolan and his son Brentwood of Fort Wayne; they designed seven Indiana courthouses, as well as several in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois and Tennessee.

Roberto Busa

In 1949 he met with Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, and was able to persuade him to sponsor the Index Thomisticus.

Roberto Car

He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne).

Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation

Between July, 1856, when Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Thomas J. Henley, requested official designation of the valley as Nome Cult farm, and the granting of his request in 1858, Round Valley slowly filled with farms and ranches despite its reservation status.

Siddhartha Shankar Ray

She was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late Thomas J. Manton, a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Stonewall, Texas

It was named for Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, by Israel P. Nunez, who established a stage station near the site in 1870.

Thomas Curry

Thomas J. Curry, Comptroller of the Currency of the United States

Thomas Devine

Thomas J. Devine, Central Intelligence Agency employee and associate of President George H. W. Bush

Thomas Dodd

Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. (born 1935), former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica

Thomas J. Dodd (1907–1971), United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut

Thomas Farnham

Thomas J. Farnham (1804–1848), explorer and author of the American West

Thomas Healy

Thomas J. Healey, academic at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

Thomas Higgins

Thomas J. Higgins (1831–1917), American Civil War soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor

Thomas J. Arnold

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth took the children back to England and Rugby for their initial education and then moved to Hiram, Ohio, where her children went to college.

Thomas J. B. Robinson

Robinson had served in the Sixty-eighth and the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1933.

Thomas J. Barry

Barry proved correct as the colt won the 1958 Belmont Stakes, at a mile and a half, the longest of the U.S. Triple Crown races.

However, from two entries in the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes, Tom Barry's horses won both.

Thomas J. Bergersen

In 2010 he also composed the original music for the movie The Human Experience.

Thomas J. Brady

Brady served with that regiment until 1863, when he was promoted to colonel of the 140th Indiana Infantry Regiment.

Thomas J. Campana, Jr.

On 12 September 2007, they filed patent infringement lawsuits against AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile.

Thomas J. Cason

Born near Brownsville, Indiana, Cason moved to Boone County with his parents, who settled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832.

Thomas J. Clark

Clark was an active partner and advisor to John Stewart up until Clark's death during the 1907 Glidden Tour.

Thomas J. Courtney

In the late 1930s, Courtney tried to ally himself with Governor Henry Horner in the latter's political feud with Chicago mayor Ed Kelly and Democratic boss Patrick A. Nash, going so far as to challenge Kelly in the 1939 mayoral primary.

Thomas J. Euteneuer

On June 27, 2012, the Associated Press reported that a woman was suing the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia; Bishop Paul Loverde; and Human Life International for alleged sexual abuse during an exorcism; however, Enteneuer was not named as a defendant.

Thomas J. Fiscus

The revelations about Fiscus surfaced around the time of other scandals involving Air Force officers Colonel Michael D. Murphy and Brigadier General Richard S. Hassan.

Thomas J. Geary

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Thomas J. Grasso

Less than an hour before he died, he issued his fourth and final statement, "I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."

Thomas J. Herbert

His son John D. Herbert was Ohio State Treasurer for two terms, 1963 to 1971 and an unsuccessful candidate for Ohio Attorney General in 1970.

Thomas J. Moyer

Moyer presided over the DeRolph decision dealing with school funding, as well as the late 1990s' legal battle over tort reform.

Thomas J. Ramsdell

Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell (1833-1917), entrepreneur and Michigan State Representative in 1861

Thomas J. Speer

Speer was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1871, until his death in Barnesville, Georgia, August 18, 1872.

Thomas J. Thompson

As a television director, he has directed episodes of Dave's World, The Norm Show, The Drew Carey Show and Good Luck Charlie.

Thomas J. Walsh

Moving to Helena, Montana in 1890 Walsh worked on injury cases involving railroad accidents and on copper litigation.

Thomas Walsh

Thomas J. Walsh (1859–1933), American lawyer and US Senator from Montana

Tom Barrett

Thomas J. Barrett, current Deputy Secretary of Transportation and Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1900

Incumbent Democratic Congressman David E. Finley of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1899, defeated Thomas J. Strait in the Democratic primary and Republican John F. Jones in the general election.

United States Senate election in Montana, 2008

Montana generally gives its presidential electors to Republican candidates, but historically has elected several prominent Democrats to the United States Senate, including Thomas Walsh, Burton K. Wheeler, Mike Mansfield, and Lee Metcalf.

Wishram, Washington

Visitors included Thomas Farnham, Hudson's Bay Company Governor Sir George Simpson, Alexander Ross, Father Pierre Desmet and Joseph Drayton's party of the Wilkes Expedition, among others.


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