By 1868, both iron and zinc operations were in progress at Sterling Hill, but the numerous companies and claims were embroiled in continuous legal battles, the largest of which was a 12-year dispute between the New Jersey Zinc Company and the Franklin Iron Company over rights to mixed ores, each company having purchased the right to mine zinc and iron, respectively.

In 1933 Steck was named by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a board to hear appeals of Iowa veterans challenging adverse determinations regarding disability claims.

It was first published in 1994 under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko and won the Miles Franklin Award the following year before becoming the subject of a major Australian literary controversy about the author's false claims of Ukrainian ethnicity.

As North Carolina and Franklin competed for the loyalties of the residents of the area, Sevier became involved in intrigues with Georgia to gain control of Cherokee lands in what is now northern Alabama, where Sevier had taken out claims on several thousand acres of land.

In his 2009 book, The Lost State of Franklin, Kevin Barksdale points out that while Sevier was driven, at least in part, by a desire to solidify his own land claims in the trans-Appalachian region, he nevertheless represents for many East Tennesseans, " rugged individualism, regional exceptionalism, and civic dignity.

Robert Naiman, Aphrodite Clamar and Girard Franklin ) were quite skeptical of the reality of abduction claims, yet all " uncovered " detailed abduction scenarios from their patients.

A mutual interest in scientific matters cemented a solid working relationship with Benjamin Franklin, and Williamson soon found himself joined with the famous American scientist and others in appealing for support among those Englishmen who, in opposition to their own government, sympathized with American claims.

In March 1853, he was appointed by U. S. President Franklin Pierce to the land claims commission for California to settle Spanish and Mexican land claims arising from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican-American War and served as president of the commission until 1856.

Indeed, Franklin claims that God revealed the usefulness of virtue to him.

His claims of racial motivation have been offset by a defense expert witness who testified in 1997 that Franklin was a paranoid schizophrenic who was not fit to stand trial.

She claims that Watson's book did not give a balanced description of Rosalind Franklin and the nature of her interactions with Maurice Wilkins at King's College, London.

Arsenal / Surrealist Subversion is an extremely sporadically appearing surrealist magazine published in Chicago and edited by Franklin Rosemont, though The Beat Page claims Philip Lamantia was a " contributing editor ".

Nixon got the idea for the Checkers reference from Franklin Roosevelt's Fala speech — given eight years to the day before Nixon's address — in which Roosevelt mocked Republican claims that he had sent a destroyer to fetch his dog, Fala, when the dog was supposedly left behind in the Aleutian Islands.

Indeed, Franklin claims that God revealed to him the usefulness of virtue.

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Robinson to direct adjustment of claims of World War I veterans, at the request of the Disabled American Veterans.

In 2004, the federal government and whistleblower David Franklin reached a $ 430 million settlement in Franklin v. Parke-Davis to resolve claims that Warner-Lambert engaged in off-label promotion of Neurontin in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( FDCA ) and the False Claims Act.

He received a third-class medal in Paris in 1840, and one of the second class in 1855, when he exhibited his " Franklin urging the claims of the American Colonies before Louis XVI.

In response to such claims, Franklin told the Observer, “ I didn't want people getting excited seeing how neat someone can be killed … I want the audience to feel the emotional loss of life -- the real violence is the loss, the violation of humanity.

Known for his intentionally provocative style, Kobayashi has made claims that Japanese aggression in World War II was only intended to free Asian nations from Western imperialism, Franklin Roosevelt allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor in spite of US counterintelligence to bring America into the war, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrate a long-standing racism against Japan by the United States, kamikaze pilots should be honored for an altruistic spirit that modern society lacks today, the Nanking Massacre was propaganda invented by the US government and the Communist Party of China, and Korean comfort women were volunteers from poor villages and not coerced into sexual servitude by the Japanese military.

His 1995 autobiography Up Late with Joe Franklin chronicles his long career and includes claims that he had dalliances with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and that Veronica Lake " threw herself at me, but I always refrained.

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

Soon after 10 A.M., when police reached the 1-1/2-story brick home in the Franklin Manor section, 15 miles south of here on the bay, in response to a call from the Dresbach's other son, Lee, 14, they found Mrs. Dresbach's body on the first-floor bedroom floor.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moulton now live on Wilshire and the Franklin Moultons on S. Windsor Blvd..

As the morning wore on and a blazing West Texas sun wiped the shadows off the Franklin Mountains, police got close enough to the plane to pry into the baggage compartment.

He discovered methane after reading a paper by Benjamin Franklin on " flammable air " and carefully searched for it in Italy.

His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money ; warships ; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies ; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.

Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White.

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

* Benjamin Franklin on postage stamps

Critical Essays on Benjamin Franklin ( 1987 )

Considers the political consequences of the remarks in a 1751 pamphlet by Franklin on demographic growth and its implications for the colonies.

* Stuart Sherman " Franklin " 1918 article on Franklin's writings.

Franklin: The Autobiography and other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue.

* Booknotes interview with James Srodes on Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, May 19, 2002.

Orion then rejoined the action further south than intended, firing on the fifth French ship Peuple Souverain and Admiral Blanquet's flagship Franklin.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

With his opponent defeated, Captain Thomas Louis then took Minotaur south to join the attack on Franklin.

To support the centre, Captain Thompson of Leander abandoned the futile efforts to drag the stranded Culloden off the shoal and sailed down the embattled French line, entering the gap created by the drifting Peuple Souverain and opening a fierce raking fire on Franklin and Orient.

" Relieved that he had not accidentally attacked one of his own ships in the darkness, Hallowell pulled up between Orient and Franklin and opened fire on them both.

Swiftsure, Alexander and Franklin were all set alight by falling wreckage although in each case teams of sailors with water buckets succeeded in extinguishing the flames, despite a secondary explosion on Franklin.

* 1933 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.

* 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.

A Roman Catholic chaplain, Lieutenant Commander Joseph T. O ' Callahan, administering the last rites to an injured crewman aboard USS Franklin ( CV-13 ) | USS Franklin, after the ship was set afire by a Japanese air attack, 19 March 1945.

In 1770, he joined the Middle Temple and studied law for three years, which would eventually lead him to his life-work in India ; after a spell as a circuit judge in Wales, and a fruitless attempt to resolve the issues of the American Revolution in concert with Benjamin Franklin in Paris, he was appointed puisne judge to the Supreme Court of Bengal on 4 March 1783, and on 20 March he was knighted.

* March 1 – Franklin D. Roosevelt gives what will be his last address to a joint session of Congress, reporting on the Yalta Conference.

* March 2 – Former U. S. Vice-President Henry A. Wallace starts his term of office as U. S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* March 11 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law.

* March 5 – Ryan Franklin, American baseball pitcher

** The Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a " Bank holiday ", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions ( the ' holiday ' ends on March 13 ).

* March 12 – Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his " Fireside Chats ".

* March 22 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of " 3. 2 beer " ( 3. 2 % alcohol by weight, approximately 4 % alcohol by volume ) and light wines.

* March 20 – Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt ( b. 1900 )

* March 4 – Franklin Pierce succeeds Millard Fillmore as the 14th President of the United States.

* March 4 – Franklin J. Drake, American admiral ( d. 1929 )

On 16 March 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, which requires an annual stamp purchase by all hunters over the age of sixteen.

John Franklin Candy ( October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994 ) was a Canadian actor and comedian.

On March 30, 1803, the Ohio government authorized the creation of Franklin County.

On March 29, 1911, 33 citizens led by John Mulkey and represented by their attorney Robert Hickman, presented a petition to Judge Thomas J. Layman of the Franklin County Court to incorporate West City as a village.

Franklin Parish was created on March 1, 1843, from portions of Ouachita, Catahoula, and Madison parishes through the efforts of Senator John Winn.

Franklin Lakes was formed by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 11, 1922, from portions of Franklin Township, based on the results of a referendum held on April 11, 1922.

Over the centuries, portions of the township were taken to form Woolwich Township ( March 7, 1767 ), Franklin Township ( January 27, 1820 ), Spicer Township ( March 13, 1844 ; now Harrison Township ), Mantua Township ( February 23, 1853 ), East Greenwich Township ( February 10, 1881 ) and Paulsboro ( March 2, 1904 ).