-- The board of regents of Paris Junior College has named Dr. Clarence Charles Clark of Hays, Kan. as the school's new president.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

At the time of his interview with Charles Platt, van Vogt was still president of the Californian Association of Dianetic Auditors.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

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 Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

* 1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.

in Chemistry, 1974 ), founding president of Vassar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College Charles Augustus Aiken.

Examples include Jamie Baillie, former CEO of Credit Union Atlantic, Graham Day, former CEO of British Shipbuilders, Sean Durfy, former CEO of WestJet, and Charles Peter McColough, former president and CEO of Xerox.

The president of the courts martial was Charles Blackader.

* 1672 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College ( b. 1592 )

* In The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, he is depicted as one of the leaders of the opposition against president Charles Lindbergh.

Charles de Gaulle described the role he envisaged for the French president when he wrote the modern French constitution, stating the head of state should embody " the spirit of the nation " for the nation itself and the world: une certaine idée de la France ( a certain idea about France ).

The president of the last of these, Charles Taylor, was forced to step down in 2003, and the United Nations installed a transitional government.

During these " Boston Tech " years, MIT faculty and alumni repeatedly rejected overtures from former MIT faculty turned Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, to merge MIT with Harvard College's Lawrence Scientific School.

Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising efforts.

* 2012 – Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Eventually, Charles Bluhdorn, the president of Paramount parent Gulf + Western, was won over to letting Brando have the role ; when he saw the screen test, he asked in amazement, " What are we watching?

Charles Mason Remey ( May 15, 1874 – February 4, 1974 ) was a prominent and controversial American Bahá ' í who was appointed in 1951 a Hand of the Cause, and president of the International Bahá ' í Council.

Article 16, allowing the president a limited form of rule by decree for a limited period of time in exceptional circumstance, has been used only once, by Charles de Gaulle during the Algerian War, from 23 April to 29 September 1961.

" The Stanfords visited Harvard's president, Charles Eliot, and asked how much it would cost to duplicate Harvard in California.

Both the film and Thomas Hauser's book The Execution of Charles Horman were removed from the United States market following a lawsuit filed against Costa-Gavras and Universal Pictures's parent company MCA by former Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and two others for defamation of character.

In the first few years, Port Charles got a reputation for focusing most of its energies on the medical school program, setting more of its main action at Port Charles ' General Hospital than was seen on the parent show, General Hospital.

It operates at London City Airport, and flies franchise services on behalf of its parent company Air France from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

Charles Howland, the parent of one of Conklin's successful patients and a wealthy New York corporate lawyer, gave his brother John a gift of $ 5, 000 to study " the ketosis of starvation ".

The parent and child meet in Charles City, Iowa.

* E. H. Harriman succeeds Charles Melville Hayes as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Uberti also produce frames, cylinders, and barrels for several other companies like Beretta ( their parent company ), Cimarron Firearms, Taurus, Charles Daly, and Navy Arms.

" In his book The Essential Rock Discography, Martin Charles Strong called the release as " equally dispensible as its parent album ".

The Charles Wells Pub Company was formed as a distinct pub estate for Charles Wells Ltd when the parent company merged its brewing operations with London's Young's Brewery to form Wells & Young's Brewery.

After achieving fame, he founded a short-lived music company, the Charles Chaplin Music Corporation, through which he published some of his own compositions, such as " Oh, That Cello!

DeMille began his career as an actor on the Broadway stage in the theatrical company of Charles Frohman in 1900.

In 1906, while working at the National Cash Register company, inventor Charles F. Kettering designed a cash register with an electric motor.

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.

Sidney Drew was the leader in developing " polite comedy ", while slapstick was refined by Fatty Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin, who both started with Mack Sennet's Keystone company.

Blair's new company supplied European filmmaking pioneers, including Birt Acres, Robert Paul, George Albert Smith, Charles Urban, and the Lumiere Brothers.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

The area was called Rupert's Land after Prince Rupert, the first director of the company and a first cousin of King Charles.

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.

Finally, Urquhart poses as Collingridge's alcoholic brother Charles in order to trade in a chemical company about to benefit from the government.

Maurice Summerfield of the Charles Summerfield Ltd company contributed some design ideas to Hoshino Gakki and also imported Ibanez and CSL guitars into the UK with Hoshino Gakki cooperation from 1964 – 1987.

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.

The photo, taken by utility company employee Charles H. Porter IV, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

When Charles Bluhdorn died unexpectedly, his successor Martin Davis dumped all of G + W's industrial, mining, and sugar-growing subsidiaries and refocused the company, renaming it Paramount Communications in 1989.

novels for the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company that was to last through the 1950s ( at the rate of one book per year ).

A company called the Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa received a charter from Charles II of England in 1663 and subsequently built a fort in the Sherbro and on Tasso Island in the Freetown estuary.

* Charles Edison ( 1890 – 1969 ), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey.

Tandy's son, Charles D. Tandy, turned it into a leathercraft company when shoe rationing in World War II almost killed the business, and later expanded into selling leather and tools to make such products as wallets.

* Charles S. Roberts-Known as the " Father of modern board wargaming ", designed the first modern wargame, as well as the company most identified with modern wargames ( Avalon Hill ).

* May 26 – Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company parking lot.

Frenchman Charles Fournier and Russian Konstantin Frank experimented with Chardonnay and other varietals in hopes of producing sparkling wines based on Old World grapes for the Gold Seal wine company.

The company's success attracted the attention of Charles Francis Washburn, Vice President of Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, an important producer of plain wire in the Eastern U. S. Washburn visited De Kalb and convinced Glidden to sell his stake in the Barb Wire Fence Company, while Ellwood stayed in DeKalb and renamed the company I. L Ellwood & Company of DeKalb.

Charles B. MacDonald — a U. S. Army historian and former company commander who served in the Hürtgen battle — has described it as " a misconceived and basically fruitless battle that should have been avoided.

The first working laser was made by Theodore H. Maiman in 1960 at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, beating several research teams including those of Charles H. Townes at Columbia University, Arthur Schawlow at Bell Labs, and Gould at a company called TRG ( Technical Research Group ).