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Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.
Baird was born in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute ( then Dunbartonshire ).
In accordance with the then practice, the Australian Prime Minister, Stanley Bruce, had been offered a number of choices, including a Duke, a Marquess and an Earl, but he chose John Baird.
At the time of Baird ’ s tenure it had approximately 8000 staff, led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, firstly Sir Ken Macdonald QC then Keir Starmer QC.
Some ten years later, the Dewey Commission was cited in great detail, when in an open letter to the British press dated 25 February 1946, written by George Orwell and signed by Arthur Koestler, C. E. M. Joad, Frank Horrabin, George Padmore, Julian Symons, H. G. Wells, F. A. Ridley, C. A. Smith and John Baird, among others, it was suggested that the Nuremberg Trials then underway were an invaluable opportunity for establishing " historical truth and bearing upon the political integrity " of figures of international standing.
Yost invented the position of linebacker, co-created the first ever bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, with then legendary UM athletic director Charles Baird, invented the fieldhouse concept that bears his name, and supervised the building of the first on-campus building dedicated to intramural sports.
He then faced Baird in the general election on 2 November 2004, losing with 38 % of the vote to Baird's 62 %.
Poilievre won the Conservative Nepean — Carleton nomination in March 2004, at the age of 24, after provincial MPP John Baird turned down suggestions that he should seek the federal nomination in the riding that he then represented in the provincial legislature.
In 1807, then a captain, he went to the Iberian Peninsula, where his knowledge of the Spanish language led to his employment on the staff of Sir David Baird and Sir John Moore.
Kennedy then named the awards the Logies, after the inventor of the first working television system, John Logie Baird.
This ruling was then appealed to the United States Supreme Court, by Sheriff Eisenstadt, who had prosecuted the case, on the ground that Baird lacked standing to appeal, being neither an authorized distributor under the statute nor a single person.
Nicholson then joined Baird Smith in compelling Wilson to make the assault, which proved successful, on 14 September.
" Hardie then spoke of " our blood shed on this scaffold ... for no other sin but seeking the legitimate rights of our ill used and down trodden beloved Countrymen ", then when the Sheriff angrily intervened he concluded by asking those present to " go quietly home and read your Bibles, and remember the fate of Hardie and Baird.
On contacting Bill Baird, then in charge of PR at de Havilland at Hatfield, he discovered that the company had used it as the design centre for the Mosquito, and that Baird had squirrelled the original prototype away in the Fiddlebridge stores, just off the airfield at Hatfield.

Baird and set
Due to deadlines, some real-world events have rendered some of Trudeau ’ s comics unusable, such as a 1973 series featuring John Ehrlichman, a 1989 series set in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, a 1993 series involving Zoë Baird, and a 2005 series involving Harriet Miers.
Baird built what was to become the world's first working television set using items including an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue that he purchased.
Soon after, a United Nations report also contradicted the study mentioning that " steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions can be accomplished at a cost of only 0. 12 per cent of the world's annual economic output " but Baird responded that Canada will have its gas emissions levels peaked in 2012 three years before the UN's set target of 2015.
In 1848 Thomson set up his own practice, Baird & Thomson, with John Baird II, who became his brother-in-law, and this firm lasted nine years.
The production was broadcast live on the afternoon of July 14, from a set at the Baird company's headquarters, 133 Long Acre in London.
Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, George Baird ran the opening leg in the gold medal winning American 4x400 m relay team at the Amsterdam Olympics, which set the new world record of 3: 14. 2.
Just a week after the Olympics, Baird set his second 4x400 m relay world record of 3: 13. 4, running again the opening leg in London.
The overall sign of the coefficients for each set of constant,, is arbitrary to some degree and has been fixed according to the Condon-Shortley and Wigner sign convention as discussed by Baird and Biedenharn .< ref > Tables with the same sign convention may be found in the Particle Data Group's Review of Particle Properties and in online tables.
One of the men named Kean went with him, and Baird and Hardie set off with a total of 30 men.

Baird and up
What is now the Baird Community House was up until about 1920 the clubhouse for a golf course that encompassed what is now Meadowlands Park.
Le Queux was eager to help Baird with his television experiments but said that all his money was tied up in Switzerland.
Baird was a member of the National Criminal Justice Board which co-ordinates the agencies which collectively make up the Criminal Justice system.
Following the financial collapse of a number of providers of education to international students, in 2009 Baird agreed to head up a review into international education in Australia.
Although the band had essentially broken up by the end of 1982, Small decided to continue recording as a solo artist but using the Prism name, and assembled a group of session musicians including Bill Champlin, Richie Zito, Mike Baird, and backup vocalists Bobby Kimball ( Toto ) and Alan Pasqua to assist him.
Baird came under criticism in late 1999 for refusing to cancel a five-year contract that had been signed between his department and the Bermuda-based private firm Andersen Consulting ( later Accenture ), worth up to $ 180 million.
Baird showed up for but quickly left the Bali Conference in which he was supposed to explain Canada's position at a meeting with non-governmental activists, with of the activists alleging that Baird left because he, " probably did not want to confront young activists critical of Canada's stand.
They said they had been roughed up and Tasered by Israeli forces and that " If minister Baird wants to put the interests of a far-right Israeli government before Canadians, he should apply for the job of Israel's ambassador ".
Scott and his team were livid with the ruling which handed the title to John McIntyre with Craig Baird runner up and Andy Booth in third.
The first French column divided into two with Gaulois ' and Jardon's brigades attacking Baird front and flank, and the third French brigade pushing up the valley on the British right in an attempt to turn their flank with Lahoussaye's dragoons moving with difficulty over the broken ground and walls trying to cover the left of the French advance.
After Cooley supporter Moses Baird was killed, Ringo committed his first murder on September 25, 1875 when he and a friend named Bill Williams rode up in front of the house of James Cheyney, the man who led Baird into the ambush.
Baird was charged with abusive and insulting gestures towards a match official during a match against Liverpool on 9 May 2011, after he played the full 90 minutes and picked up a yellow card by referee Lee Mason in the 5 – 2 defeat at Craven Cottage.
Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Baird grew up in Mason City, Iowa.
In 1928, he designed, and his protégé Bil Baird built tethered helium-filled balloons up to 125 feet ( 40 m ) long, resembling animals, for the New York institution of Macy's department store, involving a number of issues familiar from puppetry ; these participated in the store's Thanksgiving Day parade.
The artillery under Church and Baird managed to put up a tough resistance until both Church and Baird were wounded.
Glenn Seton returned to the Holden Racing Team for the enduros, joining up with Gold Coast based kiwi Craig Baird.
John David Gladwin and Edward Baird were born and brought up in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire: Terence Alan Wincott was born in Hampshire but moved to Scunthorpe at an early age.

Baird and Television
* Baird, John Logie, Television and Me: The Memoirs of John Logie Baird.
* Rowland, John, The Television Man: The Story of John Logie Baird.
* Tiltman, Ronald Frank, Baird of Television.
* The Baird Television Website
* Mechanical TV: Baird Television
* February 6 – The BBC Television Service drops the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system.
* Iain Baird ( Television Historian ), Television in The World of Tomorrow
Between November 1971 and April 1973 Sutcliffe worked at the factory of Baird Television Ltd, on the packaging line.
" The system demonstrated was from John Logie Baird's Baird Television Company.
He had been at school with the pioneer of television John Logie Baird and with him co-owned Television Limited, which manufactured and rented televisions.
However, in 1967, Bill Elliott, a technician working at Granada Television in Manchester, decided to attempt a re-creation of an extract of the play, using a replica of one of the 30-line Baird Televisiors he had constructed himself, which acted as both camera and monitor.
* Paul Nipkow & John Baird: The Invention of the Mechanical Television
* 1997 The Baird Medal of the Royal Television Society, Midland Centre
Devices used in other German cities were developed by Fernseh-Aktiengesellschaft, which was partly owned by the Baird Television Ltd of the U. K., inventors of the world's first working television.

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