Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.

Charles II of England was concerned by the unregulated copying of books and passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662 by Act of Parliament, which established a register of licensed books and required a copy to be deposited with the Stationers ' Company, essentially continuing the licensing of material that had long been in effect.

Among the largest businesses located in Cambridge was the firm of Carter's Ink Company, whose neon sign long adorned the Charles River and which was for many years the largest manufacturer of ink in the world.

Dartmouth alumni serving as CEOs or company presidents include Charles Alfred Pillsbury, founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, Sandy Alderson ( San Diego Padres ), John Donahoe ( eBay ), Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. ( IBM ), Charles E. Haldeman ( Putnam Investments ), Donald J.

From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.

He later formed his own Charles Urban Trading Company, which also produced early colour films.

After successful settlement on the island of St. Christophe ( St. Kitts ), the French Company of the American Islands delegated ( Charles Lienard ) Liénard de L ' Olive and Jean Duplessis Ossonville, Lord of Ossonville to colonize one or any of the region ’ s islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Dominica.

" He joined with his protégé Henry H. Rogers to form Charles Pratt and Company in 1867.

The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay was incorporated on 2 May 1670, with a royal charter from King Charles II.

Under the charter forming the Hudson's Bay Company, the company was required to give two elk skins and two black beaver pelts to the English King, then Charles II, or his heirs, whenever the monarch visits an area that was formerly Rupert's Land.

* Ainsworth, Mitchell, C., " Inks and Their Composition and Manufacture ," Charles Griffin and Company Ltd, 1904.

With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the New York Motion Picture Company, in 1912 Sennett founded Keystone Studios in Edendale, California, ( which is now a part of Echo Park ).

* 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.

In 1965 the first commercial scanning electron microscope was developed by Professor Sir Charles Oatley and his postgraduate student Gary Stewart and marketed by the Cambridge Instrument Company as the " Stereoscan ".

The same year the Company petitioned a new Charter from Charles II of England and this granted the island free title as though it was a part of England “ in the same manner as East Greenwich in the County of Kent ”.

The SEM was further developed by Professor Sir Charles Oatley and his postgraduate student Gary Stewart and was first marketed in 1965 by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company as the " Stereoscan ".

Charles H. Ballard's self-cocking tilting-block action was produced by the Marlin Firearms Company from 1875, and earned a superlative reputation among long-range " Creedmoor " target shooters.

* Liberally adapted by playwright Wallace Shawn, the work was brought back to Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in March 2006 with Alan Cumming playing Macheath, Nellie McKay as Polly, Cyndi Lauper as Jenny, Jim Dale as Mr Peachum, Ana Gasteyer as Mrs Peachum, Carlos Leon as Filch, Adam Alexi-Malle as Jacob and Brian Charles Rooney as a male Lucy.

Joy Morton needed to determine whether this was worthwhile and so consulted mechanical engineer Charles Krum, who was vice president of the Western Cold Storage Company.

* Charles Musser, Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company ( University of California Press, USA, 1991 )

* December 4 – Charles Dow, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company ( b. 1851 )

* 1880 – 1886: Charles F. Brush of Euclid, Ohio and Brush Electric Light Company installed carbon arc lights along Broadway, New York City.

* January 10 – The Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter by Charles II of England.

* 1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded CA Technologies

* 1944 – Charles Jordan, American magician ( b. 1888 )

* 1903 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( d. 1944 )

More successful were A Woman's Face ( 1941 ) with Joan Crawford and Gaslight ( 1944 ) with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943 – 1944 ( 1959 ) online edition

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

In late 1944, Philby was chosen to replace Cowgill as head of Section. Charles Arnold-Baker, an officer of German birth ( born Wolfgang von Blumenthal ) working or Richard Gatty in Belgium and later transferred to the Norwegian Swedish border, voiced suspicions of Philby but was ignored.

They adopted two children: Roxanne ( born 1944, adopted 1944 ) and Ronald Charles ( born 1937, adopted 1943, a. k. a. Ron Pickford Rogers ).

* 1944 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( b. 1903 )

* 1862 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer ( d. 1944 )

It was subsequently placed in the middle of several spiral representations of the periodic system for classifying the chemical elements, such as those of Charles Janet ( 1928 ), E. I. Emerson ( 1944 ), John D. Clark ( 1950 ) and in Philip Stewart's Chemical Galaxy ( 2005 ).

In the stage production he was portrayed by Walter Huston ; in the much-altered 1944 film version he was portrayed by Charles Coburn in his only singing role.

Charles H. Alston, his first art teacher and cousin, in 1944.

* 1867 – Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Charles L. Veach, American astronaut ( d. 1995 )

* June 7 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1944 )

* November 16 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer ( d. 1944 )

Classes started at the Navy Pier Secondary School on 5 June 1944 ; Captain Edwin A. Wolleson was the Commanding Officer, and Commander Charles C. Caveny served as the Educational Officer.

* Prince Charles of Belgium served as Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950 during the German captivity and then exile to Switzerland of his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium.

* Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, served as regent from 1944 to 1950 for his older brother king Leopold III of Belgium, whose position had come under scrutiny after the Second World War and his marriage to Lilian Baels.

During his years in Oxford, Blunden published extensively: several collections of poetry including Choice or Chance ( 1934 ) and Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ), prose works on Charles Lamb ; Edward Gibbon ; Keats's publisher ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Taylor ; and Thomas Hardy ; and a book about a game he loved, Cricket Country ( 1944 ).

On 5 November 1944, General Charles de Gaulle came to Grenoble and bestowed on the city the Compagnon de la Libération in order to recognise a heroic city at the peak of the French resistance and combat for the liberation.

The Memorial Museum to the Landings in Provence ( Mémorial du débarquement de Provence ) is located on the summit of Mount Faron, this small museum, opened in 1964 by President Charles De Gaulle, commemorates the Allied landing in Provence in August 1944 with photos, weapons and models.