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Walter McCoy

Walter R. McCoy (1880–1952), advocate of the hobby of stamp collecting


Abe Saffron

Furthermore, in the second edition of The Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy, in a chapter summarising the Nugan Hand Bank it is mentioned that Askin and Saffron regularly had dinner together at the Bourbon and Beefsteak Bar and Restaurant, owned by American expatriate Maurice Bernard Houghton.

Alexander Zamolodchikov

1999 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Barry M. McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu for "their groundbreaking and penetrating work on classical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories."

Alfred W. McCoy

He also uncovered money laundering activities by banks controlled by the CIA, first the Castle Bank which was then replaced by the Nugan Hand Bank, which had as legal counsel William Colby, retired head of the CIA.

Banned from Argo

The "Doctor" (Leonard "Bones" McCoy) is arrested for "inciting whores to riot", and has to be transported out of jail, "intact except for hickies and six kinds of VD".

Bernie Houghton

After serving in the US military in World War II, Houghton had various jobs over the next 20 years (Alfred W. McCoy describes him as "knocking about the country for twenty years in various jobs with no particular direction").

C. J. McCoy

McCoy got his start as a football coach at the Sewanee Military Academy, a preparatory school affiliated with the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Circular economy

This realisation triggered the thought process of a few scientists and thinkers, including Walter R. Stahel, an architect, economist, and a founding father of industrial sustainability.

Dave Carley

He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks.

Dennis McCoy

Dennis C. McCoy (born 1942), former American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

Drew R. McCoy

His two books cover a general study of political economy in Revolutionary and Early National America, and a partial biography of James Madison that, by focusing on his retirement, explores the transmission of republican values across generations in nineteenth-century America.

In the Courts of the Conqueror

In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided is a 2010 legal non-fiction book by Walter R. Echo-Hawk, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Tulsa College of Law, and of counsel with Crowe & Dunlevy.

J. J. McCoy

During the last few years McCoy has been appearing with success in dirt track contests throughout the northwest, and he also competed in a couple of the events held on the Minneapolis speedway.

J. J. McCoy, of Ortonville, Minnesota, competed at the Indianapolis track once before, as a member of the Velie Motors Corporation team in the inaugural contest on the brick oval at the 1911 Indianapolis 500 without getting into the money, however.

James M. McCoy

He entered the U.S. Air Force in January 1951 after attending St. Benedict's College in Atchison and St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa.

Kenneth Geller

From 1971 to 1972, Geller worked as Law Clerk to the Honorable Walter R. Mansfield, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Kevin M. McCoy

He is currently employed as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Irving Shipbuilding Inc.

Kevin McCoy

Kevin M. McCoy, Vice Admiral in the United States Navy and commander of Naval Sea Systems Command

Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Captain William Kiestler, commanding officer of Norfolk Naval Shipyard was relieved of duty on July 1, 2010 by order of Vice Admiral Kevin M. McCoy, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, after a year on the job because of a loss of confidence in his ability to command.

Pilgrim of Eternity

Larry Nemecek - Dr. McCoy (Nemecek is the author of numerous books on the Star Trek franchise)

Results of the Iranian presidential election, 2009

Walter R. Mebane, Jr., performs a 2nd-digit Benford test on the ballot-box/polling station-level data.

Walter R. Mebane, Jr., identifies a relationship between the proportion of invalid ballots in a ballot box and the proportion of votes for Ahmadinejad.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Lewis Carroll, in the poem at the end of Through the Looking-Glass, used a variation of Row, Row, Row, Row Your Boat sometimes called A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky It was sung by Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock at the beginning and end of the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), reflecting issues about the need for self-discovery.

Scottsburg, Oregon

Janet J. McCoy, High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Susannah Lazar

Lazar, who is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Jr. W. R. Cooney at age 16.

The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig

The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig (1953) is the brief 21st book in the humorous children's series Freddy the Pig written by American author Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

Walter McCoy

Walter I. McCoy (1859–1933), American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey

Walter Peterson

Walter R. Peterson, Jr. (1922–2011), American realtor, educator, and Republican politician from New Hampshire

Walter R. Brooks

Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York.

Since Brooks himself had died by the time production began on the show, as of early November of 2013, it was not known whether his estate collected royalties from its production.) His most enduring works, however, are the 26 books he wrote about Freddy the Pig and his friends.

Walter R. Cooney, Jr.

Cooney, who is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, has discovered more than 60 asteroids, including the 1998 identification of 11739 Baton Rouge, and he is credited with discovering more than 50 variable stars.

Walter R. Davis

He has also been awarded the William Richardson Davie Award from the UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees, and in 2004 was the inaugural recipient of the Light on the Hill Award.

In 1999 during a trustee meeting, then UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Nic Heinke asked his fellow board members to give a donation to Hurricane Floyd relief efforts.

Walter R. Nickel

In 1989 when Dr. Nickel died, then-Senator Pete Wilson eulogized him on the floor of the Senate and placed his obituary in the Congressional Record.

When the University of California San Diego opened its new medical school and hospital in the 1960s, he was the founding chairman of the Division of Dermatology.

Walter R. Tucker III

He also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to secure federal funding to repair the long neglected Compton Creek, thus eliminating the possibility of costly flood damage to the homes and property on either side of the waterway.

Tucker began his active ministry while at the Federal Prison Camp in Lompoc, California.

In Congress, Tucker served on the Committee on Public Works and Transportation and the House Small Business Committee, He introduced legislation promoting Random Acts of Kindness, opposed passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), fought to save the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, and worked to ensure the successful development of the Alameda Corridor Project.

Walter Tucker

Walter R. Tucker III (born 1957), United States Representative for California

William McCoy

W. F. McCoy (1886–1976), Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons

William F. McCoy (1840–1914), former lawyer and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada


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