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5 unusual facts about Walter E. Mooney


Beecraft

The Honeybee escaped the fire as it was still operating out of Montgomery Field at the time, owned by Walt Mooney.

Walter E. Mooney

Walter E. Mooney (1926 - March 1, 1990) was a pilot and model aircraft designer who lived in San Diego, California.

He was once featured as a daredevil glider pilot on the 1973 TV series Thrill Seekers.

Designer of the ROHR Two-175 Experimental Aircraft almost put in production to compete against the Cessna 172 in 1971.

The Aero Aces model club, of Seattle, Washington holds a Walt Mooney Memorial model airplane meet named in his honor.


American Federation of Labor Building

The American Federation of Labor Building is being incorporated within a larger design for a new Washington Marriott Marquis hotel to serve the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, located across the street.

Anthony Poshepny

Several press stories have suggested that Poshepny was the model for Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now, but both Poshepny and director Francis Ford Coppola have denied the connection.

Arthur F. Foran

Dick Foran was a famous B-movie actor, while Walter E. Foran followed in his father's footsteps in the New Jersey Senate.

Channing E. Phillips

In 1971 he ran to become the first congressional delegate to the United States House of Representatives from D.C., but lost the Democratic primary to Walter E. Fauntroy.

Charles A. Mooney

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Mooney was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 29, 1931.

District of Columbia's at-large congressional district

The seat was re-created almost a century later, shortly before the 1970 elections; Walter E. Fauntroy (D) won the 1971 special election the following March.

Havasu Creek

It is named after D. W. "James" Mooney, a miner, who in 1882 (according to his companions) decided to mine the area near Havasu Falls for minerals.

Hussman

Walter E. Hussman, Sr. (1906–1988), American journalist and newspaper publisher

Walter E. Hussman, Jr. (born 1947), American journalist and newspaper publisher

John J. Mooney

He retired from Engelhard in 2003, having spent 43 years working for the firm.

While serving in the United States Army from 1955 to 1956, Mooney was assigned to a series of nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, which included 17 atom bomb and two hydrogen bomb tests.

Mooney came to Engelhard in 1960, after graduate school, as a result of a connection made in an electrochemical engineering course.

John Mooney

John J. Mooney, American chemical engineer who was co-inventor of the three-way catalytic converter

KTAL-TV

By this time, the Palmer properties had been taken over by Palmer's son-in-law, Walter E. Hussman, Sr. He persuaded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to collapse Texarkana and Shreveport into a single television market.

Lynn Lowe

Pryor first won a hard-fought Democratic primary against the Texarkana attorney Richard S. Arnold, then a son-in-law of the media owner Walter E. Hussman, Sr..

Martin L. Sweeney

Sweeney was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Mooney.

Media Research Center

BMI's advisory board includes such well-known individuals as economists Walter Williams and Bruce Bartlett, as well as former CNN anchor David Goodnow.

Quail hunting plantation

In the southern United States, quail hunting plantations were created from old cotton plantations which were purchased beginning in the 1880s by wealthy northerners such as Howard Melville Hanna of Cleveland, Ohio, Clement Griscom of Philadelphia, Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, George H. Love, a Chrysler Corp. executive of Pittsburgh, Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr., a coal executive from Cleveland.

Rosa 'Chrysler Imperial'

This variety was bred and publicly debuted by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts of Descanso Gardens, La Cañada, California, USA in 1952.

USS Reno

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Reno, the first after Walter E. Reno, and the second after the city of Reno, Nevada.

Walter Carter

Walter E. Carter Jr., naval flight officer and president of the U.S. Naval War College

Walter E. Brehm

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress.

Brehm was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1953).

Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center

However, in September 2007, the new administration of Governor Deval Patrick appealed Tauro's ruling to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston.

Walter E. Foran

He was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1977, taking the seat of Anne Clark Martindell, a Democrat who resigned to serve in a series of positions in the Carter administration including United States Ambassador to New Zealand.

Walter E. Freed

In 1979 Freed settled in Dorset and became President of Apollo Industries, a petroleum marketer which operates gasoline stations and convenience stores in several states.

Walter E. Heller

As American businesses became more sophisticated and manufacturing became more prominent after World War II, certain industries primary used factoring as a form of business finance and credit insurance on the credit risk of its customers.

Heller Financial was purchased by GE Capital during the 2000s, sparking an insider trading investigation by the SEC when Pequot Capital Management was found to have made $18 million profit in one month in speculative purchases of massive quantities of shares just prior to Heller Financial's purchase by GE.

Walter E. Hoffman United States Courthouse

Menalcus Lankford, Congressman elect from Norfolk, and Postmaster Major Wright, successfully realized $2,050,000 in appropriations for the federal building.

Walter E. Hussman, Jr.

The late federal Judge Richard S. Arnold of Texarkana and Little Rock, was Hussman's former brother-in-law.

Walter E. Hussman, Sr.

Gale Arnold is the divorced first wife of United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Judge Richard S. Arnold.

Descended from a high-powered family of lawyers, Richard Arnold ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1966 but lost the companion special election and the primary to fellow Democrat David Hampton Pryor of Camden.

Walter E. Powell

While he was up for reelection to the Senate in 1970, he instead initially opted to run for Ohio State Treasurer.

Walter E. Rees

In 1905 the New Zealand All Blacks toured Great Britain, and began beating every team they were pitted against.

Rees was educated in his home town and later in Barnstable, and on leaving school followed his father into the local building trade.

Walter E. Rogers

On November 22, 1963, Rogers was in the motorcade in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, though four cars back.

He received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1935 and became the city attorney for Pampa, Texas three years later.

Rogers was the only member of the combined House of Representatives or Senate to vote against honorary citizenship for Winston Churchill in 1963.

Walter E. Rollins

Along with Steve Nelson, he co-wrote "Here Comes Peter Cottontail," used in the Easter special of the same name, in 1949, and "Frosty the Snowman" in 1950.

Walter E. Truemper

Truemper, aged 25 at his death, was buried at Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery in Montgomery, Illinois.

William C. Mooney

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress.


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