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William N. Leonard

Two of his brothers also became high-ranking officers: Army Major General Charles F. Leonard, Jr. and Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel John Wallis Leonard, who was killed in action in World War II.


1880 Garret Rock May Day Riot

With the sheriff’s meager forces unable to themself control the crowd, Patterson’s Mayor Graham and Sheriff Van Voorhies called upon the greatly revered Patterson Roman Catholic priest Father William N. McNulty, the moral authority of whose exhortations to the crowd were sufficient to temporarily quell or distract that mob, while sheriff’s deputies extricated the constable and the Dalzells from the rear of the second house and placed them in a transport coach.

A C Wharton

In 1980, then-Shelby County Mayor Bill Morris appointed him as Chief Shelby County Public Defender, where his concern for the mentally ill in the criminal justice system gave birth to a national model program, known today as the Jericho Initiative.

After Office Hours

After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

Cedric Wright

Among that social circle were Richard M. Leonard and his wife Doris, Francis P. Farquhar and his wife Marjorie, David Brower and his wife Anne, Edgar Wayburn and his wife Peggy, and Wright's best friends, Ansel Adams and his wife Virginia.

Edmund D. Ellis

Colonel Edmund DeTreville Ellis (March 1890 - 1995) was a member of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1915 (the class the stars fell on) which included Henry Aurand, Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John W. Leonard, Henry Sayler, James Van Fleet, and a number of other famous generals.

Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island

In the first part of the 20th century, the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island focused on urban ministry with a focus on social concerns, led by Bishop William N. McVickar.

Jack E. Leonard

Leonard narrated the theatrical release The World of Abbott and Costello which was not a documentary, but a compilation film consisting entirely of clips from Abbott and Costello movies.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

John B. Leonard

Chili Bar Bridge, spanning South Fork of American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado, California, 1922

John E. Leonard

Leonard attended the public schools and was later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1863 and then earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1867.

He studied law in Germany before he returned to the United States and was admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1870 and commenced practice at Monroe, Louisiana.

He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Havana, Cuba, while vacationing with several other Washington leaders on March 15, 1878.

Joseph-François Lafitau

It was not until 1974 that Dr. William Fenton and Dr. Elizabeth Moore made the first translation into English available.

Judith Estrin

Estrin is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded seven companies with Bill Carrico and was the CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000.

Leo Baeck

Baker, Leonard (1978) Days of sorrow and pain : Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews.

Meteoritical Society

The Leonard Medal, awarded since 1966 in honor of the first President of the Society, Frederick C. Leonard, is given for outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics and closely allied fields.

Mexican Repatriation

In order to achieve this goal, he publicly endorsed Secretary of Labor William N. Doak and his campaign to add “245 more agents to assist in the deportation of 500,000 foreigners” (Balderrama 75).

Moses G. Leonard

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Nevada State Route 430

Designed by John B. Leonard, the structure includes etchings to resemble masonry.

Omaha City Council

It was composed of A. D. Jones, who resigned March 23, 1857; T. G. Goodwill, who died May 18, 1857; G. C. Bove, H. H. Visscher, Thomas Davis, William N. Byers, William W. Wyman, Thomas O'Connor, C. H. Downs, J. H. Kellom, for whom Kellom School was later named; and John Creighton, whom Creighton University was later named for.

Playboy's Penthouse

It was first broadcast on October 24, 1959 and ran in syndication for slightly more than one year with a second season starting on September 9, 1961 with Jack E. Leonard, Anita O'Day, Buddy Greco, and George Wein.

Racial integration

Steinhorn, Leonard and Diggs-Brown, Barbara, By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race.

Republican Party of Texas

In 1961, James A. Leonard, was the "first Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas to emphasize the Party's new intention to become a force in state government." "In the dead of night," he moved the Party Headquarters from Houston to Austin" and "mobilized the Party's meager resources to support the candidacy of a 36-year-old Associate Professor of Government, John Tower, to fill Lyndon Johnson's vacant US Senate Seat.

Ribblehead

The ecclesiastical parish is St Leonard, Ingleton and there is a small church dedicated to St. Leonard at Chapel-le-Dale.

Richard Assheton of Middleton

Richard continued the rebuilding the parish church of St. Leonard's at Middleton.

Robert A. Leonard

He was Apple’s linguist in its civil trademark cases against both Microsoft and Amazon.

Leonard was recruited by the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI to train its agents in forensic linguistic analysis at Quantico, and he has trained British law enforcement units in London.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

William Barron

William N. Barron (1859–?), English-born lawyer and businessman in Missouri

William N. Baltz

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

William N. Deramus III

In that year he also served on the Board of Directors for the second and final year of the Chicago Railroad Fair.

During World War II he used his railroading background and skills to help run the Ledo Road, and upon his return, found work as an executive with the Kansas City Southern, which at the time was run by his father, William N. Deramus, Jr..

William N. Fenton

In his work as an ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, Fenton drew attention to existing historic and ethnographic sources.

William N. Fenton (December 15, 1908 – June 17, 2005) was an American scholar and writer known for his extensive studies of Iroquois history and culture.

William N. McNulty

Dean (Christianity) William N. McNulty (1829-1922), was an American pioneer Roman Catholic priest, who arrived in New York from his native Ballyshannon, Ireland in 1850, during the time of the Great Irish Potato Famine and when, there, then, existed little in the way of Roman Catholic facilities about near by Passaic County, New Jersey.

William N. Oatis

William Nathan Oatis (January 4, 1914 – September 16, 1997) was an American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the Czechoslovak government in 1951.

William N. Pendleton

He resigned his U.S. Army commission a year later on October 31, 1833, reportedly due to the issue of nullification in his home state.

Pendleton was portrayed in the 2003 Civil War film Gods and Generals by John Castle.

William N. Robson

On June 22, 1950, a pamphlet called Red Channels appeared, focusing on the field of broadcasting.

William N. Rowe

Kiberd, Declan (editor), 1916 Rebellion Handbook Dublin: Mourne River Press, 1998.

William N. Stape

Stape wasn't alone in going public with criticism of Berman, David Weddle, who wrote for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a staff writer and producer, also has been critical of Berman's handling of the Star Trek franchise.

William N. Vaile

Vaile was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1919, until his death on July 2, 1927.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-eighth Congress, March 4, 1923 to March 4, 1925).

William N. Valavanis

In 2012 he authored the large format book Fine Bonsai: Art & Nature (NY: Abbeville Press, ISBN 978-0789211125), which has 596 digital color photos (including 4 gate folds) by Jonathan M. Singer.

William Pendleton

William N. Pendleton (1809–1883), American teacher, Episcopal priest, and soldier

William Roach

William N. Roach (1840–1902), United States Senator from North Dakota

Wollaton Antiphonal

The manuscript was in use at St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton from the 1460s, until Catholic Latin service books were banned in the Reformation in the 1540s.

Wren's Cathedral

Wren's Cathedral was originally founded as the Monastery of St. Leonard at Wroxall, Warwickshire in 1141 for nuns, by Sir Hugh-Hatton eldest son of the Earl of Warwick.


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