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As the 27th Secretary of the U. S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ), Veneman managed a department of 111, 000 employees, the sixth-largest employer in the federal government, with personnel in more than 25, 000 buildings around the world ; a program level of $ 113 billion that would rank USDA sixth if it were a U. S. corporation ; a spending level that ranks fifth in the federal government ; a loan portfolio that would rank USDA seventh if it were a U. S. bank ; and one of the most diverse and challenging missions across all of government.
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Funding resumed in early 1984 when Valentin Glushko was ordered by the Central Committee's Secretary for Space and Defence to orbit Mir by early 1986, in time for the 27th Communist Party Congress.
Speaking in the House of Lords on the 27th March, 1923, he made it clear that, for his part, he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British Government's ( Churchill's ) interpretation of the pledges which he, as Foreign Secretary, had caused to be given to the Sharif Hussein in 1915.
Speaking in the House of Lords on the 27th March, 1923, Lord Grey had made it clear that, for his part, he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the Churchill White Paper's interpretation of the pledges which he, as Foreign Secretary, had caused to be given to the Sharif Husain in 1915.
Speaking in the House of Lords on the 27th March, 1923, Lord Grey had made it clear that, for his part, he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the Churchill White Paper's interpretation of the pledges which he, as Foreign Secretary, had caused to be given to the Sharif Hussein in 1915.
Although the city lagged behind other parts of the country, Birmingham finally gained a polytechnic in 1971 — then the 27th in the UK — designated by the Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher as the City of Birmingham Polytechnic.
* Ann Veneman ( 1976 ) – 27th U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, Executive Director of UNICEF
On March 9, 1865, McCulloch was appointed as the 27th Secretary of the Treasury by President Abraham Lincoln.
He served in various positions including Mayor of Saint Louis, the 27th Governor of Missouri, and United States Secretary of the Interior.
William Leon Jones ( born December 20, 1949 ) is a U. S. politician from California who served in the California State Assembly and later served as California's 27th Secretary of State.
image: DRFrancis. jpg | David R. Francis, 26th mayor of St. Louis, 27th Governor of Missouri, 20th U. S. Secretary of the Interior
Brownlee became the 27th Under Secretary of the Army on 14 November 2001, following his nomination by President George W. Bush and confirmation by the United States Senate.
Stanley Knapp Hathaway ( July 19, 1924 – October 4, 2005 ) served as 27th Governor of Wyoming from 1967 – 1975, and as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Gerald R. Ford.
On March 20th 1876 the Guatemalan Secretary of War, Jose Maria Samayoa, declared all official relations with El Salvador as terminated, asserted that on March 27th 1876 troops from El Salvador had invaded Guatemala, declared war and gave Barrio absolute power for defending Guatemala's dignity.
William Francis Galvin ( born ) is the 27th and current Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth ( U. S. state of Massachusetts ' Secretary of State ).
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The tornado was the deadliest in the U. S. since 1947, making it the 7th deadliest tornado in American history, but the 27th deadliest in the world.
* 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U. S. state.
* March 3 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U. S. state.
* Everett G. Burkhalter — Represented the 27th District of California in the U. S. House of Representatives.
On 16 January 1991, when the U. S. led coalition force initiated the Desert Storm air campaign against Iraq, the 27th TFW had 325 personnel serving in the Persian Gulf region in combat support roles.
Taft was named for the 27th U. S. president William Howard Taft.
* U. S. 27th Material Squadron
In the 2013 U. S. News America's Best Colleges report, Wake Forest ranked 13th for " Best Undergraduate Teaching " and 27th overall among national universities.
He had a small detachment of regulars from the 27th U. S. Infantry and five brigades of Kentucky militia led by Isaac Shelby, the 63-year-old governor of Kentucky and a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
He served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1942 to 1946, then as Minnesota's 27th Governor from January 8, 1947 to September 27, 1951, and finally as a judge for the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 1951 until his death in 1978.
Henry Waggaman Edwards ( October 1779July 22, 1847 ) was the 27th and 29th Governor of the U. S. state of Connecticut.
* Brian Higgins ( MPA ' 96 )-member, U. S. House of Representatives, 27th District of New York
* The 27th U. S. A state-Florida
* SJSU ’ s Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering ranks 7th in the nation among public engineering programs offering bachelor ’ s and master ’ s degrees ( excluding service academies ), and 27th overall among all 193 engineering schools on the list, according to U. S. News and World Report ( 2012 ).
The 27th was relieved of its duties supporting U. N. forces in Korea and returned to Bergstrom AFB on 31 July 1951, but was redeployed to Misawa AB, Japan during 6 October 1952 – 13 February 1953 to provide air defense.
* Korean War ( February 7, 1951 ): A company of soldiers from the U. S. Army's 27th Infantry Regiment did an infantry charge which successfully defeated an enemy machine gun position.
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. ( 1796November 2, 1850 ) was the 27th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1835 to 1836.
The meat packing company Hormel claims that it introduced corned beef hash and roast beef hash to the U. S. as early as 1950, but " hash " of many forms was part of the American diet since at least the 19th century, as is attested by the availability of numerous recipes and the existence of many " hash houses " named after the dish In the United States, September 27th is " National Corned Beef Hash Day.
* August 14 – Flying a P-38 Lightning fighter of the 27th Fighter Squadron, Lieutenant Elza Shaham becomes the first U. S. Army Air Forces pilot to score an aerial victory in Europe during World War II when he shoots down a German Focke Wulf Fw 200C-3 Condor.
His son, William Howard Taft, was the 27th President of the United States and was a member of Yale's Skull and Bones like his founder father ; another son, Charles Phelps Taft, supported the founding of Wolf's Head Society at Yale ; both his grandson and great-grandson, Robert A. Taft I ( also Skull and Bones ) and Robert Taft Jr., were U. S. Senators ; his great-great-grandson, Robert A. Taft II, was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 until 2007.
* William H. Donaldson ( born 1931 ), the 27th Chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission 2003 – 2005
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On the evening of December 27th, Esther noticed my pallid look and rasping voice.
By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.
* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )
In 2008, Money magazine ranked Ann Arbor, 27th out of the top 100 best places to live in America.
* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü ’ l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
It is now in its 27th year and is most notable for its marquee on the silver sands playing fields.
The release marked the 27th major release for the AutoCAD for Windows, and the third consecutive year for AutoCAD for Mac.
In these areas, sales otherwise scheduled for 26 December are moved to the 27th.
* Kolchak has been the mascot of the 27th Infantry Regiment since the Regiment participated in the Siberia Campaign.
The 27th Infantry had been nicknamed " The Wolfhounds " in recognition of their endurance during battles in Siberia.
< http :// www. oed. com / view / Entry / 39766 >; accessed 20 March 2012 .</ ref > Other sources pre-date this use by nearly four decades to at least 1871, where it is used in The Journal of Mental Science reporting on a conference of the Fifth Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association ( now the Royal College of Psychiatrists ), held on Thursday, January 27th, 1870:
The only exception to these traditional alliances was the first Government of the 27th Dáil, comprising Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party, which ruled between 1993 and 1994.
On July 27th, 2012, Fulham FC were granted permission to redevelop the Riverside Stand, increasing the capacity of Craven Cottage to 30, 000 seats.
On September 27th, 2012, Manny Acta was fired.
it was released on the 27th of April in Ireland and the 30th of April in the UK, and features the titular character, Electra Heart, as a fictional character of Marina's creation who epitomizes the American female at her very worst, in the four " Archetypes "; the Primadonna, SuBarbieA, Homewrecker, and the Teen Idle.
On Feb 27th 2008 the incumbent president Leonel Fernández test rode the system for the first time and free service was offered thereafter several times.
* Keiō 4: On the 27th day of the 8th month ( October 12, 1868 ), Emperor Meiji was crowned in the Shishin-den in Kyoto.
was the 27th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
The western boundary is a combination of SE 28th Avenue, SE Bybee Boulevard, and SE 27th Avenue.
* 10 July 858 ( Ten ' an 2, 27th day of the 8th month ): Former-Emperor Seiwa died at age 31.
The film was voted the 27th greatest comedy film of all time by readers of Total Film in 2000.
* 1892 – Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna ( d. 1959 )
Fellini received a lifetime achievement at the 27th Cannes Film Festival in 1974.
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