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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.


1947 New York City smallpox outbreak

On April 4, 1947, New York City Mayor, William O'Dwyer announced plans to vaccinate everybody in the city.

Alex Bail

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

Arnold Raum

As Tax Court judge, Raum presided over the 1957 trial of former New York City mayor William O'Dwyer.

Billy O'Dwyer

For the Mayor of New York City from 1946-1950, see William O'Dwyer

Bohola

Former New York City Mayor and US Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer and his brother, the noted New York City humanitarian, lawyer, and politician Paul O'Dwyer are also natives of the village, as is prominent civil rights attorney Frank Durkan, also of New York, who was a nephew of the O'Dwyers.

Carl Hawkinson

Both men won in the Republican primary where Hawkinson received 47% of the vote defeating State Representative William O'Connor, Jack McInerney, and Charles Owens, but lost to Rod Blagojevich and Pat Quinn in the general election.

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.

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.

February 31

Ripley's Believe It or Not! states that William O'Malley, "according to his birth certificate on file in Clifden, Ireland, was born in 1853 on February 31".

Flight of Black Angel

Flight of Black Angel is a 1991 TV (Showtime) aviation film directed by Jonathan Mostow, featuring William O'Leary and Peter Strauss.

Independent Nationalist

In the main, but certainly not always, such Independent Nationalist candidates were either the Healyite Nationalists, supporters of Timothy Michael Healy, or the O'Brienite Nationalists, supporters of William O'Brien.

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

Justice Douglas

William O. Douglas, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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.

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.

Owen-Spalding route

It was pioneered by William O. Owen, Franklin Spalding, Frank Peterson, and John Shive on August 11, 1898, during the mountain's first ascent.

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.

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.

Sidney M. Aronovitz

President Gerald Ford nominated Aronovitz to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on August 4, 1976, to the seat vacated by William O. Mehrtens.

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.

Special verdict

For this reason, Justices Black and Douglas indicated their disapproval of special interrogatories even in civil cases.

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.

Sen. Larry Pressler, a former student and one of six Rhodes Scholars who studied under Doc, provided key support to the Farber Intern and Travel Fund activities in Washington, D.C. After the renovation of "Old Main", the lecture hall was also re-dedicated as Farber Hall.

William O. Head

After his term as mayor, he served as a delegate to the Democratic National Committee and as president of the Louisville Water Company.

William O. Smith

William Osborne Smith (1833–1887), first Acting Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police

William Orlando Smith (1859–1932), U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania

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. Wooldridge

In Robin Moore's novel Khaki Mafia, a fictional character in a criminal cartel is based on Woolridge in Vietnam.

William O'Donohue

In Harrington v. Almy the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit found that a penile plethysmograph test ordered to be administered by O'Donohue as a precondition of employment was a violation of a Maine police officer's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

William O'Dwyer

He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

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.

In 1855 he succeeded to the substantial O'Neill estates on the death of his relative John O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill (on whose death the viscountcy became extinct) and assumed by Royal license the surname of O'Neill in lieu of Chichester the same year.

William O'Sullivan

William S. O'Sullivan (1928–1971), Irish-American loanshark and mob enforcer


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