According to former NHL president Gil Stein, another factor was that the Karmanos / Rutherford group wanted to pay only $ 29 million before starting play, while the Esposito group was one of the few willing to pay the entire $ 50 million expansion fee up front.

According to Macmillan, " Rutherford did not know what was going on.

According to Consolation, " Judge Rutherford looked for the early triumph of ' the King of the East ', Christ Jesus, now leading the host of heaven, and he desired to be buried at dawn facing the rising sun, in an isolated part of the ground which would be administered by the princes, who should return from their graves.

According to Rutherford:

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

According to biographer Carol Easton, Beatrice grew up in a middle-class English household.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

According to Fabius ' biographer Plutarch, Fabius possessed a mild temper and slowness in speaking.

According to biographer John Newsinger,

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

According to Gardner's first biographer, Jack Bracelin, Com was very flirtatious and " clearly looked on these trips as mainly manhunts ", viewing Gardner as a nuisance.

According to the biographer Esther Forbes, the Guy Fawkes Day celebration in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday.

According to Berry's biographer Mark A. Moore, " The song ( with backing vocals, plus additional instruments added by the Ernie Freeman combo ) had a raucous R & B flavor, with a bouncing bomp-bomp vocal hook that would become a signature from Jan on future recordings.

According to biographer Julie Phillips, the suicide note Sheldon left was written years earlier, and saved until needed.

According to Landis biographer J. G.

According to Moon biographer Tony Fletcher's, Moon's toilet pyrotechnics began in 1965 when he purchased 500 cherry bombs.

According to his biographer, the Chevalier became a great admirer of Lucrezia's, considering her a " pearl among women ".

According to one Rand biographer, most people first read Rand's works in their " formative years.

According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).

According to his early biographer Willibald, Boniface started to chop the oak down, when suddenly a great wind, as if by miracle, blew the ancient oak over.

According to Rolling Stone journalist and biographer David Sinclair, " Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty were the most widely recognised group of individuals since John, Paul, George, and Ringo ".

According to biographer McFeely, historians overwhelmingly agree that his intemperance at the time was a fact, though there are no eyewitness reports extant.

According to biographer McFeely, this discontent may have been responsible for Grant's ill-considered issuance of General Orders No. 11 on December 17, 1862.

According to another Grant biographer, Jean E. Smith, it was " one of the most blatant examples of state-sponsored anti-Semitism in American history.

According to biographer McFeely, as the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two day drinking episode.

According to law professor Douglas O. Linder, McVeigh wanted Jones to present a " necessity defense "— which would argue that he was in " imminent danger " from the government ( that his bombing was intended to prevent future crimes by the government, such as the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents ).

According to tradition, Douglas was carrying the heart in a silver casket when he died at the head of the Scottish contingent at the Battle of Teba.

According to author, Douglas Brinkley, President Harding came to the most northern U. S. territory in order to " open up Alaska lands " for oil, mining, and timber development and industry.

According to Douglas Cooper: The first true Cubist sculpture was Picasso's impressive Woman's Head, modeled in 1909-10, a counterpart in three dimensions to many similar analytical and faceted heads in his paintings at the time.

According to Barbour, there was a fourth nominally under the youthful Walter the Steward, but actually under the command of Sir James Douglas.

According to Douglas Harper, the Swedish terms originated from "( trampcykel med ) mo ( tor och ) ped ( aler )", which means " pedal cycle with engine and pedals " ( the earliest versions had auxiliary pedals ).

According to the Allied Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur, the provision was suggested by Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara, who " wanted it to prohibit any military establishment for Japan — any military establishment whatsoever.

According to John P. Smol of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and Marianne S. V. Douglas of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, warming conditions and evaporation have caused low water levels and changes in the chemistry of ponds and wetlands in the area.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Douglas County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the author, the producer-director Peter Douglas ( with Vincent Pictures ) has purchased the film rights to the novel.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Camp Douglas has a total area of 0. 9 square miles ( 2. 5 km² ), all of it land.

According to The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, the entire production was originally filmed with Paul Douglas ( the manager in the 1951 film, Angels in the Outfield ) in the role, calling him " MacGarry " rather than " McGovern ".

According to Douglas Adams, " Marvin came from Andrew Marshall.

According to Don't Panic, Douglas Adams wrote a guitar tune for the lullaby, and thought it should have been released.

* According to Douglas Morton Dunlop the word " Bashqort " comes from " beshgur, bashgur " which means " five tribes, five Ugrics ".

According to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley, " When the Swift finally made it back to the My Tho River, the crew confronted the heartbreaking sight of a huge Navy landing craft ferrying the troops back.

According to Douglas Q. Adams, the Tocharians may have called themselves ākñi, meaning " borderers, marchers ".

According to Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta ancestry written in 2005, Arthur and Antigone are the illegitimate children of Humphrey and an unknown mistress.

According to the Douglas Chamber of Commerce, a 1930s hunting trip for jackrabbits led to the idea of a Jackalope.

According to Douglas Bailey, a Republican who had helped run Gerald Ford's 1976 presidential campaign, " It's no longer necessary for a political candidate to guess what an audience thinks.

According to Douglas Farah, " The amputation of the arms and legs of men, women, and children as part of a scorched-earth campaign was designed to take over the region ’ s rich diamond fields and was backed by Gaddafi, who routinely reviewed their progress and supplied weapons ".

According to Douglas Crimp, Kramer posed a question to the audience: " Do we want to start a new organization devoted to political action?

According to this airline's timetables in May of 1964 and also in April of 1967, National was operating Douglas DC-8 jetliner service on a direct, no change of plane transcontinental route to and from Houston and Los Angeles.

According to the February 15, 1985 edition of the Official Airline Guide ( OAG ), Eastern Airlines was flying Boeing 727-100 and Douglas DC-9-50 jet service, Republic Airlines was operating Douglas DC-9-10, DC-9-30 and DC-9-50 jets, United Airlines was flying Boeing 727-100 jetliners and Delta Connection, operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines ( ASA ), was flying deHavilland Canada DHC-7 " Dash 7 " and Shorts 360 turboprops on the route.