Herbert von Dirksen, who was German Ambassador in London from 1938 – 1939, described his predecessor, Ribbentrop, as " an unwholesome, half-comical figure ".

In this, Ribbentrop was particularly supported by the German Ambassador in London, Herbert von Dirksen, who reported that Chamberlain knew " the social structure of Britain, even the conception of the British Empire, would not survive the chaos of even a victorious war ", and so would back down over Poland.

This scene was helped in particular by the San Francisco club Mabuhay Gardens, whose promoter, Dirk Dirksen, became known as " The Pope of Punk ".

Everett McKinley Dirksen ( January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969 ) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

Dirksen was born to Johann Friedrich Dirksen and his wife Antje Conrady, German immigrants who lived in Pekin, Illinois, a small city near Peoria, Illinois.

Everett had a fraternal twin, Thomas Dirksen, and also had a brother named Benjamin Harrison, a nod to the Republican leanings of his father, who died when Everett was nine years old.

After losing in the 1930 Republican primary, Dirksen won the nomination and the congressional seat in 1932, and was re-elected seven times.

Dirksen was able to secure the passage of an amendment to the Lend-Lease bill by introducing a resolution while 65 of the House's Democrats were at a luncheon.

Dirksen remained in the House of Representatives, but in 1947, he awakened to trouble in his right eye that was diagnosed as chorioretinitis, inflammation in the retina.

After recovering from his health problems, Dirksen was elected to the Senate in 1950 when he unseated Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas.

In 1952, Dirksen was a supporter of the presidential candidacy of fellow Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the longtime leader of Republican conservatives.

Along with Charles Halleck and later Gerald Ford ( the Republican Minority Leaders of the House ), Dirksen was the official voice of the Republican Party during most of the 1960s, and he was often featured on television news programs.

Dirksen was also legendary for his fondness for the common marigold.

In August 1969, Dirksen was found to have an asymptomatic peripherally-located mass in the upper lobe of the right lung, detected on chest x-rays.

In 1972, one of the Senate's buildings was renamed the Dirksen Senate Office Building in his honor.

In 1960, an operator-controlled monorail was installed for the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The Dirksen monorail, which had been extended to the Hart Senate Office Building in 1982, was replaced in 1993 by an automatic train.

Although, in the words of Senator Everett Dirksen, Burger " looked, sounded, and acted like a Chief Justice ," Woodward and Armstrong's The Brethren depicted Burger as a weak chief justice who was not seriously respected by his colleagues due to alleged personal eccentricity and lack of legal acumen.

Situated the farthest from the Capitol, the Hart Building was connected underground to an extension of the existing Capitol Subway to the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

He was also close friends with Everett Dirksen.

In 1969 he was already a candidate for the Minority Leadership position that opened up with the death of his father-in-law, Everett Dirksen, but was defeated 24-19 by Hugh Scott.

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

The single " Gallant Men " made Dirksen, 71 years 3 days old, the oldest person to reach the Hot 100's top 40 at the time ( 7 January 1967 ), at # 33, on its way to peak at # 29 two weeks later, about 2 1 / 2 years before Moms Mabley would, at 75 years 4 months old, unseat him with her version of " Abraham, Martin And John " peaking at # 35.

* Richard Wayne Dirksen — Graduated magna cum laude in June 1942, later organist-choirmaster at the Washington National Cathedral

The project members, Betty Schmidt, Paul Dirksen, Paul H. Cress, Lothar K. " Ned " Kesselhut, Bill Kindree and Dereck Meek, who were later joined by Mike Doyle, Rod Milne, Ron Hurdal and Lynn Williams, completed 360 WATFOR in the early part of 1967.

She met her first husband, Grier C. Raclin, a telecommunications attorney ( who later became a senior executive at Charter Communications in St. Louis, Missouri ), when they clerked together at the Everett McKinley Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago.

Dirksen garnered attention at the convention when he gave a speech attacking New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, a liberal Republican and the leading supporter of Taft's opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, General Dwight Eisenhower.

During the speech, Dirksen pointed at Dewey on the convention floor and shouted, " Don't take us down the path to defeat again ," a reference to Dewey's presidential defeats in 1944 and 1948.

Dirksen and Aquino dissolved their agreement in the early 1980s over disputes concerning Dirksen booking all his higher profile shows at the venue directly upstairs from the Mabuhay, The On Broadway Theater.

At this time the booking at The Mabuhay turned more to metal than punk, as most of the better punk acts followed Dirksen.

A " Fab Mab Reunion " -- emceed by Dirk Dirksen — took place on April 8, 2006 at The Fillmore and not at The Velvet Lounge.

Sun Myung Moon in a religious ceremony at the Dirksen Senate Office Building honoring the controversial spiritual leader.

The court is based at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois.

He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo ( Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler called WATFOR ( WATerloo FORtran ), for the IBM System / 360 family of computers.

In December 1938, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave a speech at a formal dinner of the correspondents of the German News Agency in London with Dirksen present.

While still studying at Peabody, Dirksen became assistant organist to Paul Callaway at the Washington National Cathedral in February, 1942.

In 1949, Dirksen was also appointed director of the glee club at the cathedral's affiliated St. Albans School.

In 2006, the Society announced the establishment of an endowment fund in memory of Richard Wayne Dirksen, who served the society in wide-ranging capacities during his half-century tenure at the Cathedral.

He became the first senator from Illinois to serve as a Senate Whip since Everett Dirksen did so in the late 1950s, and the fifth to serve in Senate Leadership.

Baker's late first wife, Joy, who died of cancer, was the daughter of former Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen.

In 1972, Cress and Dirksen were joint winners of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, " For the creation of the WATFOR Compiler, the first member of a powerful new family of diagnostic and educational programming tools.

I have nostalgia for the Dirksen Building because this is where my father had his office, and I was very content to stay here .... Now that it has been renovated -- and mine was the first suite to be renovated -- I consider that we are in the high-rent district.