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Fletcher Bowron ( August 13, 1887 – September 11, 1968 ) was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, from September 26, 1938, until June 30, 1953.
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Poulson's victory in the Los Angeles mayoral race came after a contentious battle in which his opponent, incumbent mayor Fletcher Bowron, claimed that the Los Angeles Times wanted to control city government and, by endorsing Poulson, would have a puppet in the mayor's office.
Bradley served for twenty years as mayor of Los Angeles, surpassing Fletcher Bowron with the longest tenure in that office.
He served as the 33rd Mayor of Los Angeles between 1929 and 1933, and ran for re-election twice more but was defeated in 1933 by Frank L. Shaw and in 1941 by Fletcher Bowron.
In the 2011 video game LA Noire, The Mayor is based on Fletcher Bowron and coincides with the name and personality.
The grand jury rejected CIVIC's report, and after seeking the advice of Superior Court Judge Fletcher Bowron ( who had overseen a grand jury that nearly brought down L. A. District Attorney Buron Fitts for corruption ), CIVIC issued a minority report that was only published after Judge Bowron's intervention.
Fletcher and August
Fletcher withdrew from the Solomon Islands area with his carrier task forces the evening of August 8.
On August 30, 2003, Reuters further quoted Hawass: " I'm sure that this mummy is not a female ", and " Dr Fletcher has broken the rules and therefore, at least until we have reviewed the situation with her university, she must be banned from working in Egypt.
Fletcher House, built in 1879 by August W. Schubert, was sold to the Missouri Synod of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in 1894 to house Concordia Lutheran College.
" On 24 August 2012, Sunderland announced the signing of Steven Fletcher from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of £ 14 million and England international winger Adam Johnson from Manchester City.
On 29 August 1943, Pierrepoint married Annie Fletcher, who had run a sweet shop and tobacconist two doors from the grocery where he worked.
In response to an unanticipated land battle fought between U. S. Marines on Guadalcanal and Japanese forces on 19 – 20 August, the U. S. carrier task forces under Fletcher headed back toward Guadalcanal from their positions to the south on 21 August.
By 18: 23 on 23 August, with no Japanese carriers sighted and no new intelligence reporting their presence in the area, Fletcher detached Wasp — which was getting low on fuel — and the rest of TF 18 for the two-day trip south toward Efate Island to refuel.
Both Father Wrigglesworth ( the Catholic parish priest of King's Lynn and Walsingham ) and Father Fletcher ( Founder and Master of the Guild of Ransom ) laid the foundations and left others to declare the Catholic National Shrine at the Slipper Chapel on 19 August 1934 with over 10, 000 pilgrims present.
On August 29, Fletcher granted pardons to the nine indicted administration officials and issued a blanket pardon for " any and all persons who have committed, or may be accused of committing, any offense " with regard to the investigation.
On August 11, 2006, Special Judge David E. Melcher ruled that because the personnel violations were allegedly committed while Fletcher was acting in his official capacity as governor, he was protected by executive immunity and could not be prosecuted until he left office.
After negotiating with legislators, Fletcher called another session for August ; the session included only the tax incentive program, which the Assembly passed.
On June 4, 1981, he beat Ken Bogner by a knockout in seven, but later that year, on August 31, he lost for the first time, outpointed over eight rounds by Anthony Fletcher.
Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers ( born February 13, 1896 in Ridgway, Illinois ; died August 5, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ), a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers ( born April 5, 1897 in Missouri ; died February 22, 1988 in South El Monte, California ), and was the sister of Byron Fletcher Summers ( born December 25, 1918 in Missouri ; died April 2, 1994 ), Esther Eva Summers Wootten ( born 1922 in Los Angeles, California ), and Bruce Wendell Summers ( born February 22, 1929 in California ; died November 15, 2007 ).
As the U. S. took the offensive in August 1942, Vice Admiral Fletcher commanded the Task Force 61's invasion of Tulagi and Guadalcanal by the 1st Marine Division ( United States ).
This criticism may have affected the decision to not return Fletcher to his command after his flagship, the carrier, was torpedoed and damaged by a Japanese submarine on August 31, 1942.
Horace W. Henderson ( November 22, 1904 – August 29, 1988 ), the younger brother of Fletcher Henderson, was an American jazz pianist, organist, arranger, and bandleader.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Fletcher, 1st Baronet ( 1768 – 31 August 1813 ) was an engineer in the British Army known for his work on the Lines of Torres Vedras.
Katherine " Kate " Ritchie ( born 14 August 1978 in Goulburn, New South Wales ) is an Australian actress, best known for her long-running role as Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera Home and Away.
Fletcher and 13
* Colley Cibber, Love Makes a Man ; or, The Fop's Fortune: A comedy ( published ; performed 13 December 1700 ); a combination of two plays by Beaumont and Fletcher: The Custom of the Country and The Elder Brother
** During the court festivities in the winter of 1612 – 13, the King's Men give twenty performances, which include eight Shakespearean plays, four by Beaumont and Fletcher, and the lost Cardenio.
Finally, with no firm word on the presence or location of other Japanese carriers, Fletcher launched a strike of 38 aircraft from Saratoga at 13: 40 to attack Ryūjō.
On January 13, 2005, the Board of Medical Licensure found that Fletcher was acting in his capacity as governor, not as a doctor, when he signed the warrant and ruled that his license was not forfeit by that action.
Her final scenes were filmed on 13 December 2007, and she last appeared on Australian screens as Sally Fletcher on 3 April 2008.
In that respect it must have resembled Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One, from c. 1608 – 13, a play in the John Fletcher canon in which Fletcher wrote the last two parts of the quartet, while another playwright, most likely Nathan Field, wrote the others.
Buoyed by the success of the race and with the backing of local newspapers, Fletcher raised the money to pay for 13, 000 planks shipped from San Diego to Holtville, California.
On May 13, 1692 Queen Mary instructed the new incoming governor, Benjamin Fletcher, to pardon the six remaining prisoners.
Saco Bay is approximately 10 mi ( 16 km ) wide, running from the Fletcher Neck ( the Biddeford Pool peninsula ) and the mouth of the Saco River in York County north to the Scarborough River and Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine, approximately 13 mi ( 19 km ) southwest of Portland.
On April 13, 2012, Fletcher was re-signed by the Redskins to a two-year contract worth $ 10. 75 million with $ 5. 25 million guaranteed.
* John Fletcher ( 1579 – 1625 ), Dramatist Sitter associated with 13 portraits National Portrait Gallery
The other partners were Norman C. Fletcher ( December 8, 1917-May 31, 2007 ), Jean B. Fletcher ( 1915 – September 13, 1965 ), John C. Harkness ( b. November 30, 1916 ), Sarah P. Harkness ( b. July 8, 1914 ), Robert S. McMillan ( April 3, 1916 – March 14, 2001 ), Louis A. McMillen ( October 21, 1916 – May 8, 1998 ) and Benjamin C. Thompson ( July 3, 1918 – August 21, 2002 ).
* Cindy Sheehan's Pitched Battle-In a Tent Near Bush's Ranch, Antiwar Mother of Dead Soldier Gains Visibility Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post 13 August 2005, Page A01
An investigation by the Attorney General of Kentucky and a special grand jury led to the indictment of 13 Fletcher administration officials.
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