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unusual facts about William O. Goodman


Goodman Theatre

The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory company and a school of drama at the Institute.


Alan H. Goodman

He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the University of Connecticut, and a research fellow in stress physiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Alex Bail

The committee pressured Mayor William O'Dwyer into naming a fact finding commission to see if this financially tenable.

Alyssa A. Goodman

From 2008 to 2009, Goodman was a "Scholar-in-Residence" at WGBH, while on sabbatical.

Carlos Castaneda bibliography

Martin J. Goodman: I was Carlos Castañeda: The Afterlife Dialogues (2001 New York) Three Rivers Press.

Center for Naval Analyses

Sherri W. Goodman founded the CNA MAB and serves as its Executive Director.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Association

In 1954, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and a group of conservation-minded fellow hikers walked the C&O Canal from Cumberland, Md.

Colman O'Shaughnessy

When his uncle, William O'Shaughnessy, died in 1744, he became the Chief of the Name and commenced a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas to recover the ancient O'Shaughnessy estates at Gort in County Galway, Ireland.

Dan Zanger

He attended a seminar led by William O'Neil and this was a major turning point in his ability to select winning stocks.

David A. Goodman

Goodman is also known for his deep throat voice which has been poked fun at numerous times in Family Guy audio commentaries, particularly by the creator Seth MacFarlane and writer Alec Sulkin who both believe his voice sounds a lot like Ray Romano's.

David S. Goodman

Goodman became known for helping to break the news that Soviet Defense Minister Dmitriy Ustinov was dead.

Democratic vice presidential nomination of 1944

Among the possible candidates were James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt's "assisting president," who initially was the prominent alternative, Associate Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Senators Alben W. Barkley and Harry S. Truman as well as the Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn.

Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

It remained a fixture on the ABC radio network (formerly the NBC Blue Network; it became known as ABC in 1945), maintaining its popularity for years and counting among its fans Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Hollin Hills

While planning the community, architect Charles M. Goodman and landscape architect Dan Kiley designed each home with lots no smaller than one-third of an acre.

It has approximately 450 houses conceived and built by the visionary builder Robert C. Davenport, and designed by D.C.-based architect Charles M. Goodman (who also designed the Washington National Airport) and landscape architect Dan Kiley.

James Goodman

James R. Goodman (born 1944), professor of computer science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Robert F. Kennedy said "it would mean so much overseas that we had a Negro on the Supreme Court." However, Hastie was opposed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who balked because "he's not a liberal and he'll be opposed to all measures we are interested in, and he would be completely unsatisfactory." Associate Justice William O. Douglas also objected to Hastie as the nominee.

John P. Reese

His first book, The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use From Wall Street's Best (Dearborn, 2002. ISBN 978-0976510109), was co-authored with Todd O. Glassman and examined the strategies of eight different stock market investors—Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, William O'Neil, Warren Buffett, David Dreman, Martin Zweig, Kenneth Fisher, and James O'Shaughnessy.

Judge O'Dwyer

William O'Dwyer (1890–1964), Kings County (Brooklyn) Court, New York judge before becoming Mayor of New York City

Liberty

In the United States Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, Justice William O. Douglas argued that liberties relating to personal relationships, such as marriage, have a unique primacy of place in the hierarchy of freedoms.

Louis W. Goodman

Prior to assuming this position, he directed the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Social Science Research Council and served on the faculty of Yale University’s Sociology Department.

Mackinac Island State Park Commission

The chairman of the commission is the former Michigan House of Representatives Republican Leader Dennis O. Cawthorne. Other commission members include (youngest, oldest and longest serving) Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley; Barry J. Goodman; Karen Karam; Richard A. Manoogian; Chuck Yob and William K. Marvin.

MANual Enterprises v. Day

Justice William Brennan, joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas, concurred but would have decided the case on much narrower technical rather than First Amendment grounds.

Mark J. Marcus

He was Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families in the 1970s and 1980s, serving in the administrations of Governor's Ella T. Grasso and William O'Neill.

Morris E. Goodman

By March 1981, Morris E. Goodman had achieved one of his dreams of obtaining his pilot's license and had bought his own airplane, a Cessna 172.

Murder Police

Murder Police was going to be an animated television series co-created by Family Guy executive producer David A. Goodman and animator Jason Ruiz.

Pennsylvania v. Nelson

The Case was argued in front of the Warren Court whose members were: Earl Warren; Hugo Black; Stanley Reed; Felix Frankfurter; William O. Douglas; Harold Burton; Tom C. Clark; Sherman Minton; and John Marshall Harlan II.

Penrose Methodist Chapel

The Methodist societies established by William O’Bryan (1778-1868) became known as the Bible Christians, and the first formed at Launcells and Shebbear along the Devon and Cornwall border largely on agricultural land.

Posthumous sperm retrieval

New York senator Roy M. Goodman proposed a bill in 1997 requiring written consent by the donor in 1998, but it was never passed into law.

Ralph Paine, Jr.

Paine lamented "I'm about to be fired unless I can find someone who can satisfy Times advertisers without catering to them." Through Yale law professor William O. Douglas, he found that replacement, Eliot Janeway.

Robert M. Goodman

Goodman was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002 and also chaired the Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources section of the AAAS.

Ross C. Goodman

Under his management, the WFA acquired top ranked MMA fighters to include future UFC champions, Rich Franklin, Quinton Jackson, and Lyoto Machida, as well as Urijah Faber who became a champion in the WEC.

In 2008 Goodman represented comedian and entertainer Jerry Lewis in a firearms charge.

Entertainment producer and majority partner of the V Theatre David Saxe enlisted Goodman when his associates made a move to vote him out.

Sherri W. Goodman

Prior to her public service, Goodman practiced law at Goodwin Procter and worked as a defense analyst at RAND and SAIC.

Goodman has twice received the Department of Defense medal for Distinguished Public Service, in addition to the Gold Medal from the National Defense Industrial Association, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Award.

Goodman has also published articles on climate change, energy, environmental security, weapons acquisition and nuclear energy and waste cleanup in a wide variety of publications, among them The Washington Post, The National Interest and Defense News.

Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet

Fighting against him at both of the latter battles was William O'Shaughnessy, whose forfeited lands his family now owned.

We Were There

The books were written by a number of different authors, each writing from one to seven of the books; the authors included Benjamin Appel, Jim Kjelgaard, Earl Schenck Miers, William O. Steele, and others.

West Cork by-election, 1916

2Healy was imprisoned in Frongoch internment camp for supposedly being associated with Sinn Féin, but Sinn Féin repudiated his candidacy for not revoking to take his seat at Westminster, instead had been supported by William O'Brien, who was leader of the All-for-Ireland League.

Wild River State Park

The park is managed to provide quieter, more nature-oriented recreation as a counterpoint to the busier William O'Brien and Interstate State Parks downstream.

William Burgin

William O. Burgin (1877–1946), U.S. Representative from North Carolina

William O. Barnard

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-second Congress in 1910.

William O. Brice

He also headed Marine Aircraft Group 14 during its support of the New Georgia and Bougainville invasions and directed all Solomons-based Army, Navy, Marine and New Zealand fighter operations against Rabaul, Japan's biggest base in the Southwest Pacific.

William O. Farber

Protégés including Tom Brokaw, Al Neuharth, Dennis Daugaard, and Pat O'Brien all credit much of their success upon the teachings of "Doc" Farber.

William O. Munsell House

Situated on the western edge of a proposed Buckman Historic District, the Munsell House features large pedimented gable dormers facing the cardinal points.

William O. Wallace

He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956.

William O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill

He was the great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, grandson of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, and younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall.

William Parkyns

After the death of Queen Mary in 1695 Parkyns associated with Sir George Barclay, Robert Charnock, Captain George Porter, "Scum" Goodman, and others, in their plan to kidnap or to assassinate William.

WorldWide Telescope

One of the tours featured was made by a six year old boy, while other tours are made by astrophysicists such as Dr. Alyssa A. Goodman of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Dr. Robert L. Hurt of Caltech/JPL.


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