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2 unusual facts about William J. Graham


William J. Graham

Graham was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, to June 7, 1924, when he resigned.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Sixty-sixth Congress).


A Splendid Exchange

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped The World (London: Atlantic Books, 2008) is a book by American author William Bernstein.

Air rights

A good example of this is Grand Central Terminal in New York City, where William J. Wilgus, chief engineer of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, devised a plan to earn profit from air rights.

Beulah Land

Popular hymn writers of the day would visit each summer: Ira D. Sankey, William H. Doane, William J. Kirkpatrick, John R. Sweeney, Eliza E. Hewitt, Fanny Crosby, and others.

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It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.

Champoeg Meetings

Those who participated in these early meetings included François Norbert Blanchet, William J. Bailey, Mr. Charlevon, David Donpierre, Gustavus Hines, William Johnson, Jason Lee, Étienne Lucier, Robert Moore, Josiah Lamberson Parrish, Sidney Smith, and David Leslie.

Charles Graham

Charles K. Graham (1824–1889), sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and brigadier

Christina Stead

Stead also became involved with the writer, broker and Marxist political economist William J. Blake (formerly Wilhelm Blech), with whom she travelled to Spain (leaving at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War) and to the USA.

Dominant design

Dominant design is a technology management concept introduced by Utterback and Abernathy in 1975, identifying key technological features that become a de facto standard.

Donald E. Graham

In 1994, Graham was responsible for “a heavy blow to the newspaper’s credibility” (WaPo ombudsman on October 9, 1994), when he successfully lobbied Senator John Danforth for a special provision, favoring Washington Post Co.'s cell phone holdings, in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty.

Farey sequence

Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463).

First National Bank of Omaha

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote that the 1863 law permitted a national bank to charge interest at the rate allowed by the regulations of the state in which the lending institution is located.

Flowchart

Another 1944 graduate, Ben S. Graham, Director of Formcraft Engineering at Standard Register Industrial, adapted the flow process chart to information processing with his development of the multi-flow process chart to display multiple documents and their relationships.

GreenWheel

Developed by William J. Mitchell and other team members at the Smart Cities project at the MIT Media Lab, the GreenWheel puts the motor and its batteries inside a housing that fits into the bicycle's wheel hub.

Ivan L. R. Lemelle

During 2009, Lemelle was assigned the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case alleged against Renée Gill Pratt and Mose Jefferson, brother of former U.S. representative William J. Jefferson, who simultaneously stood indicted on sixteen counts in federal court in Virginia.

James L. Graham

On August 15, 1986, Graham was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio vacated by Robert Morton Duncan.

Justice Brennan

William J. Brennan, Jr., former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Little Rock Marathon

Landmarks along the course include the Arkansas State Capitol, Little Rock River Market District, the Clinton Presidential Center, Governor's Mansion, MacArthur Birthplace/Military Museum, and Historic Little Rock Central High School.

Louisiana state elections, 2010

Besides contributions to Clinton, Kerry, former state senator Cleo Fields, and former U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson, a Dardenne commercial criticized Fayard's previous employment by Goldman Sachs, which later received a federal bailout: "Analysts like Fayard got rich but cost us billions."

Luti

William J. Luti, an American Senior Director for the National Security Council

Patrick Simmons

He lived for many years in Santa Cruz County, California, and in 1981 opened a vintage motorcycle shop with author William J. Craddock.

Paul E. Marek

With slight changes to the title and content, it has been regularly attributed incorrectly as the work of a number of different authors, such as William J. Haynes, II and Emanuel Tanay.

Pete Knight High School

The high school was named after test pilot and politician William Joseph "Pete" Knight.

Rudolf Rahn

In the early 1970s Rahn sent a letter to Robert A. Graham, one of the editors of the Acts and Documents of the Holy See related to the Second World War, which was published in 1991 by the Italian magazine 30 Giorni, stating that a German plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII had existed, but that all documents relating to it had been destroyed or lost.

Susan L. Graham

Graham's chair was endowed by Pehong Chen, president, chief executive officer and chairman of Broadvision.

The Birth of Plenty

The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created is a nonfiction book on world history and economics by American author William Bernstein.

W. J. Hamilton

William J. Hamilton, (born 1932), American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey

William Abraham

William J. Abraham (born 1947), United Methodist pastor and theologian

William Bell Clark

He was succeeded as editor and his work continued by Dr. William J. Morgan, who in turn was succeeded by Dr. William S. Dudley, and then by Dr. Michael J. Crawford.

As a result of this in the late 1950s, Clark's work came to the attention of the Director of Naval History, Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller at the Naval History Division of the Navy Department (now the Naval Historical Center) and the head of the Early History Branch in that office, Dr. William J. Morgan.

William J. Baroody, Jr.

Baroody's brothers include Michael Baroody, a corporate lobbyist, and Joseph Baroody, a former leader of the National Association of Arab Americans.

William J. Biggy

During the San Francisco graft prosecutions, Biggy was appointed Elisor by the court to hold Abraham Ruef in custody, which lasted more than a year, first in the temporary "little" Saint Francis Hotel and later in a house at 2849 Fillmore Street, after the sheriff and the coroner were disqualified.

William J. Brennan High School

The far west areas of San Antonio, Texas are experiencing rapid growth and William J. Brennan H.S. helps to alleviate crowded conditions at neighboring William Howard Taft High School and John Paul Stevens High School.

William J. Crowe

He also served on the board of Emergent BioSolutions (then Bioport), a company that provided controversial anthrax vaccinations to the U.S. military in the 1990s.

William J. Dyess

In 1980, President of the United States Jimmy Carter named Dyess Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, with Dyess holding this office from August 29, 1980 until July 30, 1981.

William J. Fields

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

William J. Gedney

William J. Gedney (born April 4, 1915 in Orchards, Washington; died November 14, 1999 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American linguist and Southeast Asian language specialist.

William J. Green, III

Green was not involved when President Clinton sought to procure a job with Revlon for Monica Lewinsky through Revlon board member Vernon Jordan.

He declined to run in the 1978 gubernatorial election but won the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1979, defeating runner-up Charles Bowser, former deputy mayor.

William J. Hough

Quoting from archives: "These papers consist of Hough's correspondence with David Dale Owen concerning the selection of stones for the Smithsonian Building and an original proposal for the Smithsonian Building from the architect, James Renwick, Jr.

William J. MacDonald

William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), American banker who endowed an astronomical observatory

William J. Martini

Martini was defeated for re-election in 1996 by Paterson mayor Bill Pascrell, and was one of eight Republican Representatives elected in the 1994 Republican Revolution to be defeated in their re-election bids.

William J. McKee

In 1873, he married Mary Baby, the granddaughter of James Baby (baptized Jacques).

William J. Mitsch

Before October 2012 he was Distinguished Professor of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University and Director of the University’s Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park.

William J. Scherle

After making a very public and national campaign against the National Endowment for the Arts, and in particular its funding of the single-word poem "lighght" by Aram Saroyan, Scherle found himself campaigned against by many of Saroyan's supporters including George Plimpton.

William J. Sullivan

Governor M. Jodi Rell accepted the withdrawal of Zarella's nomination to be Chief Justice.

The court became embroiled in a lengthy ethics scandal in 2006 when it was revealed that retiring Chief Justice Sullivan postponed the publication of a controversial decision opposing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents that track the status and history of legal cases in the Connecticut legal system until hearings for his nominated successor Justice Peter T. Zarella were completed.

William J. Zloch

On October 9, 1985, President Ronald Reagan nominated Zloch to a newly created seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

William Winter

William J. Winter (born 1930), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh


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