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unusual facts about William O. Steele



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.

Alfred E. Steele

Steele was arrested by the FBI on September 6, 2007 in a Federal corruption probe that also included the arrests of Assemblyman and Orange mayor Mims Hackett and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.

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.

Columbia Club

In addition to the thousands of business leaders and politicians who have been members, the Club has also included many artists and musicians including Hoagy Carmichael and T.C. Steele.

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.

Dynamic debugging technique

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was "HACTRN" ("hack-tran"); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," The HACTRN.

Elease Evans

Ms. Evans held a seat that was vacated by former Assemblyman Alfred E. Steele on September 10, 2007.

Human back

With some notable exceptions (see, e.g. George "The Animal" Steele), it tends to have less hair than the chest on men.

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 B. Steele

Steele was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

John E. Steele

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Detroit in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit College of Law in 1973.

Steele served as a law clerk to the Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Detroit from 1972 to 1974.

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 H. Steele

:For the Governor of the U.S. State of New Hampshire, see John Hardy Steele.

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.

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.

Michael D. Steele

He was a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the Somalia mission Operation Gothic Serpent, which resulted in the now famous book and movie Black Hawk Down, where he was portrayed by actor Jason Isaacs.

Mims Hackett

Hackett was arrested by the FBI on September 6, 2007 in a Federal corruption probe that also included the arrests of Assemblymen Alfred E. Steele and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.

Nashville, Indiana

In the early twentieth century, a number of artists settled in the area, most notably T. C. Steele, the American Impressionist painter.

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.

Pleasantville Public Schools

Included in the sweep were the arrests of Assemblymen Mims Hackett and Alfred E. Steele, and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.

Pleasantville, New Jersey

Included in the sweep were the arrests of Assemblymen Mims Hackett and Alfred E. Steele, and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.

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.

Redpath Museum

Commissioned by Redpath to mark the 25th anniversary of Sir John William Dawson's appointment as Principal, the Museum was designed by A.C. Hutchison and A. D. Steele.

Seaboard Corporation

In 1998, Pulitzer Prize investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James Steele published a Time Magazine investigative article, "The Empire of the Pigs," which chronicled "how an extremely resourceful corporation plays the welfare game, maximizing the benefits to itself, often to the detriment of those who provide them."

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.

Steve Gilliard

When Michael S. Steele announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate election of 2006, Gilliard mocked Steele's perceived subservience to the Republican Party by posting a photoshopped picture of Steele in minstrel makeup.

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 O'Sullivan

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


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