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Walter M. Geddes

On October 26, 1915, Geddes left Aleppo and headed for Smyrna and passed through Bozanti.


George W. Geddes

He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress.

He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses).

Geddes was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1887).

Grolier

Walter M. Jackson (1863–1923) was the founder of encyclopedia publisher Grolier, Inc., and he was the partner of Horace Everett Hooper in publishing the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and in developing its 11th edition.

James Madison Wells

Walter M. Lowrey, "The Political Career of James Madison Wells,", Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 31 (October, 1948), pp.

Jim Donnan

Attended High School in Burlington, North Carolina at Walter M. Williams High School He served as the head football coach at Marshall University (1990–1995) and the University of Georgia (1996–2000), compiling a career record of 104–40–1.

John M. Geddes

Boyd stepped down on June 5, 2003, along with the paper's former executive editor, Howell Raines, in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.

He and Jill Abramson (since promoted to executive editor) were appointed to their positions by then-executive editor Bill Keller to succeed former managing editor Gerald M. Boyd.

On the Riviera

It was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Music and Best Art Direction (Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott).

Oregon Compulsory Education Act

With support also of the state Ku Klux Klan and 1922 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter M. Pierce, the Compulsory Education Law was passed by a vote of 115,506 to 103,685.

Risch algorithm

The Risch algorithm is summarized (in more than 100 pages) in Algorithms for Computer Algebra by Keith O. Geddes, Stephen R. Czapor and George Labahn.

Robert L. Geddes

Working first for Conda Partnership from 1981 to 1985, Geddes spent the bulk of his career with Monsanto in Soda Springs as an environmental engineer from 1985 until 2011, taking a year-long leave of absence to serve on the Idaho State Tax Commission.

He later earned a Bachelors of Science in Geology from Utah State University in 1981.

Later, Geddes was acting lieutenant governor again in May and June, 2006 after Lieutenant Governor Jim Risch became governor upon the resignation of Governor Dirk Kempthorne to become Secretary of the Interior until Mark Ricks, whom Governor Risch appointed to fill the vacancy in the office he left, was confirmed by the Senate.

Saint Leibowitz

Saint Leibowitz is a character in the science fiction novels A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman written by Walter M. Miller, Jr..

Teenage Rebel

It was nominated for two Academy Awards; Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss).

The Children's Encyclopædia

Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S. under the name The Book of Knowledge (1910).

Wait Chapel

It also houses the Williams Organ, donated by Walter McAdoo Williams, namesake of Walter M. Williams High School.

Walter Gibson

Walter M. Gibson (1822–1888), English adventurer, Mormon missionary, and government official in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Walter M. Bortz III

Bortz received his bachelor's degree in biology at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia.

After his retirement, Dr. Bortz and his wife moved to South Carolina.

Walter M. Brackett

He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War William W. Belknap in the early 1870s to execute portraits of the line of succession of the secretaries, and he painted the portraits of Timothy Pickering, Samuel Dexter, William Eustis, and Henry Dearborn, all prominent residents of his native state.

Walter M. Calinger

When Walter Calinger was hired by Woodland Hills School District outside Pittsburgh, his claims of past accomplishment was discussed by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter Brian Bowling.

In his position as superintendent (2008–2011) of the Woodland Hills School District, Calinger challenged the public charter school Propel,about how the School District's test results compared with the Propel charter school.

Walter M. Carlaw

Walter Macfarlane Carlaw was the son of Walter and Jeannie Carlaw of Blythwood in Glasgow, Scotland.

Walter M. Chandler

In 1920, Chandler was elected to a fourth nonconsecutive term as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923).

He served as member of the faculty and lecturer at the American Expeditionary Force University at Beaune, France, during World War I.

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.

Walter M. Pierce

The Compulsory Education Act was later struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States in its 1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters decision, on the grounds that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 1883, motivated by both his recent diagnosis of tuberculosis and the idea of Manifest Destiny as propounded by Horace Greeley, Pierce moved west.

Walter M. Scott

Walter M. Scott (November 7, 1906, Cleveland, Ohio – February 2, 1989, Los Angeles, California) was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

His first Academy Award nomination came in 1950 for Joseph L. Mankiewicz's drama All About Eve.

Walter M. Walker

The main products of his orchards were prunes and cherries (Salem is still known as the "cherry city") but he also grew apples, strawberries, gooseberries, grapes, pears, holly and hops.

Walter Pierce

Walter M. Pierce (1861–1954), American politician and Governor of Oregon

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

The Center was headed by Dr. Leslie A. Geddes and located in Purdue's A.A. Potter Engineering Center.


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