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Jurney v. MacCracken

During a Senate investigation of airlines and of the U.S. Postmaster General, the attorney William P. MacCracken, Jr. allowed his clients to destroy subpoenaed documents.


Augustus G. Weissert

Weissert mustered out September 17, 1865 with the regiment and returned to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he continued to study law under Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice William P. Lyon.

Boston College Eagles

At a Big East meeting in Newark on October 1, conference presidents asked BC president Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., about rumors surrounding the Eagles' intentions.

Braniff Flight 352

Braniff International Airways Flight 352 was a scheduled domestic flight from William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, United States to Dallas Love Field in Dallas; on May 3, 1968 a Lockheed L-188A Electra flying on the route, registration N9707C, broke up in mid air and crashed near Dawson, Texas after flying into a severe thunderstorm.

Clifford M. Hardin

His daughter, Nancy H. Rogers, married Douglas L. Rogers, the son of Secretary of State William P. Rogers.

Commission on National Goals

The other members of the Commission were Vice Chairman Frank Pace, Erwin D. Canham, James B. Conant, Colgate W. Darden, Jr., Crawford H. Greenewalt, Alfred M. Gruenther, Learned Hand, Clark Kerr, James R. Killian, Jr., William P. Bundy and George Meany.

Donald Barr

He and his wife Mary had four children, including Attorney General William P. Barr.

Euclid Trucks

In 1959 the Department of Justice under Attorney General William P. Rogers initiated an anti-trust suit, under the Clayton Act, against General Motors Corporation.

James A. Elkins

This behind-the-scenes socialization amongst leading Texas politicians and businessmen included the likes of Jesse Jones, Gus Wortham, James Abercrombie, George R. Brown, Herman Brown, Lyndon Johnson, William L. Clayton, William P. Hobby, Oscar Holcombe, Hugh Roy Cullen, and John Connally.

Moline Plow Company

Several famous people served as executives or engineers at Moline Plow, including Frank Gates Allen, William P. Bettendorf, George Peek, and Hugh Samuel Johnson.

Portland Rum Riot

The prosecutor was former U.S. Attorney General Nathan Clifford, and the defense attorney was later U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden.

Richard C. Cook

Documentation further suggests the Rogers Commission was conceived as part of a cover-up effort, including collusion by some NASA managers, White House operatives and commission head William P. Rogers.

Rogers Plan

The Rogers Plan was a framework proposed by United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers to achieve an end to belligerence in the Arab-Israeli conflict following the Six-Day War and the continuing War of Attrition.

Trobriand Music Company

The company is principally engaged in the publication and distribution of the musical works of American composer, William P. Perry.

William Hobby

William P. Hobby, Jr. (b. 1932), an American publisher and politician and the son of William P. Hobby

William Lauder

William P. Lauder, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

William Lawlor

William P. Lawlor (1854–?), justice of the California Supreme Court in the 1920s

William P. Acker

Returning to Thailand in March 1974, he assumed command of the 432d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing (redesignated 432nd Tactical Fighter Wing) at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base.

William P. Anderson

Among the more important works may be mentioned the Colchester Reef lighthouse (1885) on a caisson in Lake Erie, the construction and installation in 1898 of the first-order fog siren station on Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador), and the nine flying buttress lighthouses at Pointe-au-Pere, Escarpement Bagot, Estevan Point, Michipicoten Island, Caribou Island, Belle Isle Northeast, Cape Bauld, Cape Norman, and Cape Anguille.

William P. Bolton

Born near Whiteford, Maryland, Bolton attended the public schools and St. Francis Parochial School in Baltimore County, Maryland.

William P. Brown

In 1991, he became the Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia and soon became the Professor of Old Testament Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in 2002.

William P. C. Barton

President John Tyler appointed Barton to the office of first head of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on September 2, 1842.

William P. Clark, Jr.

His biography, The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand, written by Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner, was published in 2007 by Ignatius Press.

Each contains ceilings and other features from European buildings, purchased by Clark from the Hearst Corporation, via his close friend George Randolph Hearst, Jr. The chapel in Shandon, known locally as Chapel Hill, is open to the public.

William P. Crowell

William Perry Crowell (born November 25, 1940) was Deputy Director of the National Security Agency from 1994 to 1997, during which time he was the highest ranking civilian in the agency, who oversaw management.

William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History

After Brendler's death in 1986, William W. Scott (a colleague of Nobel Laureate Charles Huggins at the University of Chicago) became curator of the museum.

William P. Edwards

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Upon the readmission of Georgia to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869.

William P. Elmer

Elmer was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945).

William P. Fessenden

He also served as a chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds during the 40th Congress, the Appropriations Committee during the 41st Congress and the U.S. Senate Committee on the Library, also during the 41st Congress.

William P. Gottlieb

Architect I. M. Pei stated that "Steven Gottlieb transcends traditional architectural photography by interpreting architecture with the vision of a true artist."

William P. Greene, Jr.

During his career as a Judge Advocate, he completed his military education at the Basic, Advanced, and Military Judges' courses at The Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

William P. Greiner

In 1922, he ran for Congress in the 41st District, but was defeated by Republican Clarence MacGregor.

William P. Hobby

Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901.

William P. Hobby, Jr.

Hobby was an easy winner in most of his elections, including a high-profile race in 1982 in which he defeated the Republican nominee George Strake, Jr., also a Houston businessman, a former Secretary of State of Texas, and later the Republican state chairman.

William P. Holaday

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, after which he resumed the practice of Law in Danville.

William P. Lambertson

Lambertson was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3, 1945).

Born in Fairview, Kansas, Lambertson attended the public schools, Ottawa (Kansas) University, and the law school of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

William P. Latham

His orchestral works have been performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman-Rochester Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Radio Orchestras in Brussels, Belgium and Hilversum, Holland, under such well known conductors as Eugene Goossens, Howard Hanson, Thor Johnson, Anshel Brusilow, John Giordano, and Walter Susskind.

William P. Lauder

Additionally, he directed the Company's online activities on a worldwide basis, including the Gloss.com joint venture with Chanel and Clarins.

William P. Murphy

William Parry Murphy (Stoughton, Wisconsin, February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia).

William P. Richardson

His granddaughter, Rhea, was the mother of the famous American film director John Huston and grandmother of the actors Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston.

William P. Rogers

Rogers led the investigation into the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

William P. Sanders

On August 2, 1861, the 2nd U.S. Dragoons was renamed the 6th U.S. Cavalry, where he participated in the Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam.

William P. Wolf

On September 30, 1870, William Smyth, the incumbent Congressman representing Iowa's 2nd congressional district, died while seeking re-election.

William Parry

William P. Murphy (1892–1987), William Parry Murphy, American physician

William S. Sessions

A report by outgoing Attorney General William P. Barr presented to the Justice Department that month by the Office of Professional Responsibility included criticisms that he had used an FBI plane to travel to visit his daughter on several occasions, and had a security system installed in his home at government expense.

William Thorne

William P. Thorne (1845–1928) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1903–1907)


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