He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

As a freshman, he injured his knee and developed a leg infection which extended into his groin and which his doctor diagnosed as life threatening ; the doctor insisted that the leg be amputated but Dwight refused to allow it, and miraculously recovered, though he had to repeat his freshman year.

John and Barbara had four children: Dwight David II " David ", Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean.

Yale's Timothy Dwight expressed satisfaction that the world no longer had to deal with a man of " peremptoriness and effrontery, rudeness and ribaldry ".

Sometime after this, Dwight Yoakam appeared on the same show and after Yates told him, " You seem different from other country singers we've had on the show ," Yoakam replied, " What?

Nehru had a powerful ally in the US president Dwight Eisenhower who, if relatively silent publicly, went to the extent of using America ’ s clout in the IMF to make Britain and France back down.

* 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( NASA had already activated the facility on July 1 ).

In addition, he had protection given to him by an offensive line led by all-pro center Dwight Stephenson and Pro Bowl guard Ed Newman.

This question had arisen most recently with the illnesses of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

He had the attention of the media and the Republican party, when Dwight Eisenhower ordered him to preside at Cabinet meetings in his absence.

* September 8 – In Huntsville, Alabama, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( which had been activated by NASA on July 1 ).

** U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $ 1. 0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who had been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1, 000 per week.

While he had been instrumental in advancing the career of the able Dwight D. Eisenhower, he had also recommended the swaggering Lloyd Fredendall to Eisenhower for a major command in the American invasion of North Africa during Operation Torch.

Even though Stevenson had twice been the Democratic Party's presidential candidate and retained a loyal following of liberals, his two landslide defeats to Republican Dwight Eisenhower led most party leaders and delegates to search for a " fresh face " who could win a national election.

" U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had said " something CIA chief Allen Dulles to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated ".

In the United States Dwight Macdonald broke with Trotsky and left the trotskist Socialist Workers Party, by raising the question of the Kronstadt rebellion, which Trotsky as leader of the Soviet Red Army and the other Bolsheviks had brutally repressed.

But Warren had to head off a revolt by Senator Richard M. Nixon, who supported General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The franchise was founded in 1989 as an expansion franchise and has had such notable NBA stars such as Shaquille O ' Neal, Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady, Steve Francis, Dwight Howard, Vince Carter, and Rashard Lewis throughout its young history.

On June 25, 2012, Dwight Howard had face-to-face meeting with General Manager Rob Hennigan in Los Angeles and demanded a trade to the Brooklyn Nets.

He worked to narrow the post-Suez Crisis rift with the United States, where his wartime friendship with Dwight D. Eisenhower was key ; the two had a productive conference in Bermuda as early as March 1957.

The town was named for Henry Dwight, who had funded most of the building of this part of the railroad.

In 1879 Dwight physician, Dr. Leslie Keeley, working with Richard Oughton, announced that he had found a cure for alcoholism based on gold chloride.

Roadnight built the first warehouse in Towanda ; he settled in Bloomington, had a farm in Dwight, and in 1858 later became treasurer of what was then the Chicago and Alton Railroad.

This was a common design in newly established towns along the Chicago and Alton Railroad and may be found, with slight variations, in places like Dwight, Gardner, Odell and Mclean ; Fell's town of Normal, established at the same time as Towanda, was to have had exactly the same arrangement ; except that in Normal, the original street paralleling the railroad, quickly lost its importance to the reverse side of the block.

For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation ; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world.

The stadium hosted two MLB All-Star Games ( 1961 and 1984 ), one National League Division Series ( 1997 ), three National League Championship Series ( 1971, 1987 and 1989 ), two World Series ( 1962 and 1989 ), and eight NFC Championship games, the most notable being in January 1982 when Dwight Clark caught a game-winning touchdown pass from Joe Montana to lead the 49ers to their first Super Bowl ( see " The Catch ").

Most were named Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office ; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower, who won it in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force, eight years before his election.

In addition to the " Inside " series, Gunther wrote eight novels and three biographies, most notably Bright Nemesis, The Troubled Midnight, Roosevelt in Retrospect ( published in 1950 ) and Eisenhower, a biography of the famous general released in 1952, the year Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President.

In 1998 Zahovič scored seven goals for Porto during the 1998 – 99 UEFA Champions League, thus finishing the campaign on third place among top scorers in the competition, behind Dynamo Kyiv's Andriy Shevchenko and Manchester United's Dwight Yorke, who both scored eight goals.

A left-hander, Score struck out 245 batters in his rookie year, a rookie record that stood until, when it was topped by Dwight Gooden ( Score, Gooden, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Don Sutton, Gary Nolan, Kerry Wood, Mark Langston and Hideo Nomo were the only eight rookie pitchers to top 200 strikeouts in the 20th century ).

Hawley wrote to Dwight on April, 29, 1801 to tell him of the death of his son James, eight days after his visit.

In 1942, under the command of Brigadier General Dwight H. Mohr, the state guard consisted of: A brigade headquarters company, with radio section and chemical warfare section, eight infantry battalions, one engineer battalion, one medical battalion, one special military police unit and an African-American battalion commanded by Maj. William Creigler.

Many of his sermons were published posthumously under the titles Theology Explained and Defended ( 5 vols., 1818 – 1819 ), to which a memoir of the author by two of his sons, W. T. and Sereno E. Dwight, is prefixed, and Sermons by Timothy Dwight ( 2 vols., 1828 ), which had a large circulation both in the United States and in England.

They had four sons: Robert Taft Jr. ( 1917 – 1993 ), who was also elected to the U. S. Senate ; Horace Dwight Taft, who became a professor of physics and dean at Yale ; William Howard Taft III ( 1915 – 1991 ), who became ambassador to Ireland ; and Lloyd Taft ( 1923 – 1985 ), who worked as an investment banker in Cincinnati.

The course, which sits on a property on Shelbyville Road in the eastern portion of Louisville just outside the Gene Snyder Freeway, was envisioned by local business leader Dwight Gahm ( pronounced " game ") and his three sons in 1981, and opened in 1986.

This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.

) The theologically conservative future president of Yale, Timothy Dwight, opined that " the style was crude and vulgar, and the sentiments were coarser than the style.

* The Conquest of Canaan by Timothy Dwight IV ( 1785 )

In 1887, as the college continued to grow under the presidency of Timothy Dwight V, Yale College was renamed Yale University.

* Timothy Dwight IV, Congregationalist

Timothy Dwight Hobart, the White Deer land agent from 1903 – 1924, was elected mayor of Pampa in 1927.

Timothy Dwight, the Yale president who chronicled his travels, called the town "... one of the prettiest in New England.

Timothy Dwight ( May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817 ) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author.

Timothy Dwight was born May 14, 1752 in Northampton, Massachusetts.

His paternal grandfather Colonel Timothy Dwight, was born October 19, 1694, and died April 30, 1771.

His father, a merchant and farmer known as Major Timothy Dwight, was born May 27, 1726, graduated from Yale in 1744, served in the American Revolutionary War, and died June 10, 1777.

Engraving of Timothy Dwight IV with signature

During troubled times at Yale University, president Timothy Dwight saw his students drawn to the radical republicanism and “ infidel philosophy ” of the French Revolution, including the philosophies of Hume, Hobbes, Tindal, and Lords Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke.

Dwight's grandson and namesake, " Timothy Dwight the Younger " ( 1828 – 1916 ), served as Yale's president, 1886-1899.