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General and Hastings
Rolling Stone caused a controversy in the White House by publishing in the July issue an article by journalist Michael Hastings, entitled, " The Runaway General ", quoting criticism of General Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U. S. Forces-Afghanistan commander, about Vice President Joe Biden and other Administration members of the White House.
General Henry Hastings Sibley, an early pioneer, governor, and military defender of the state.
Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, Governor Hastings had sent General Sir Eyre Coote south from Bengal to take charge of British forces opposing Hyder.
Hastings was considered the natural choice to be the first Governor General.
This he used, by means of a safe-conduct from Bismarck, as credentials to Marshal Bazaine, to whom he presented himself at Metz, telling him on the empress's alleged authority that peace was about to be signed and that either Marshal Canrobert or General Bourbaki was to go to Hastings for the purpose.
He allied himself to Warren Hastings, the Governor General who generally deferred to him and gave him a free hand over military matters, in opposition to Hasting's opponents on the ruling Council Edward Wheler and Philip Francis.
Two days later, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill sent a memo to his chief staff officer, General Hastings Ismay, asking him to begin planning an operation for a raid on the islands as soon as possible and stating that he felt that it would be the type of operations that the newly formed Commandos would be suited for.
He unsuccessfully contested Hastings at both the February and October 1974 general elections and again at the 1979 General Election, and on each occasion was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Kenneth Warren.
He won Hastings and Rye at the 1997 General Election when he became the second least expected Labour MP in the landslide.
The job of the Attorney General is a demanding one, and Sir Patrick Hastings wrote while serving that " to be a law officer is to be in hell ".
General Hastings Ismay, chief of staff to Winston Churchill, described King as:
The troops were led by the Governor General Hastings and he was supported by a force under General Thomas Hislop.
During World War II the committee was a sub-committee of the War Cabinet, and in addition to the three service chiefs, it had an additional member, in the person of General Sir Hastings Ismay, who acted as its secretary.
He moved to Hawai ' i in 1975 upon graduation from Hastings and joined the Attorney General's office, becoming Deputy Attorney General a year later.
A more controversial move made by Hastings exposed Halhed as a target to the opposing factions when Hastings nominated him for the post of Commissary General in October, 1776.
Willesley Hall in the 1830s when it was the home of Charles Abney Hastings | Sir Charles Abney Hastings and just before that General Sir Charles Hastings | his father.
Monuments in the church include one dated 1505 to John and Maria Abney, another to George and Ellen Abney dated 1571 and a Lt. General Sir Charles Hastings ' black and white marble tomb who died in 1823.
Pongaroa is still serviced by Pongaroa School, Pongaroa Cafe and General Store, Pongaroa Hotel, and Pongaroa Farm Centre, lying as it does on the popular alternative route from Wellington to Hastings.

General and Lionel
In November 2005, Michel Bock won the Governor General ’ s Literary Award in the category of Non-fiction for the book Quand la nation débordait les frontières: les minorités françaises dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx ( When the nation overflowed its borders: the French minorities in the thoughts of Lionel Groulx ).
* The History of the TUC ( Trades Union Congress ) 1868-1968: A pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution — Illustrated with Contemporary Prints, Documents and Photographs edited by Lionel Birch ; published in large paperback by Hamlyn / General Council of Trade Union Congress in 1968 with a foreword by George Woodcock
Its roots lie in the 1969 purchase of the Lionel product line by cereal conglomerate General Mills.
The bankrupt Lionel Corporation sold the tooling for its then-current product line and licensed the Lionel name to General Mills in 1969, who then operated Lionel as a division of its subsidiary Model Products Corporation.
An internal reorganization after 1973 caused Lionel to become part of General Mills ' Fundimensions group.
In 1979, General Mills resurrected the American Flyer brand and product line, which Lionel Corporation had purchased from its bankrupt competitor ( The A. C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut ) several months prior to its own bankruptcy in 1967.
When General Mills spun off its Kenner-Parker division in 1985, Lionel became part of Kenner-Parker.
In July 1918, the 39th Brigade would be detached from the division and be assigned to General Lionel Dunsterville's Dunsterforce.
Within two years, Lionel Corp. was bankrupt itself and had sold its train lines to General Mills, including the unused American Flyer tooling.
In 1979, General Mills ' Lionel division started to reissue Flyer products under that name employing a mix of previously unused railroad heralds and traditional Gilbert American Flyer designs.
In 1984, General Mills sold the Lionel Co. to Kenner, a toy manufacturer.
The Army of Islam, under the control of Nuri Pasha, moved forward and attacked Australian, New Zealand, British, and Canadian troops led by General Lionel Charles Dunsterville at Baku.
MTH had a troubled relationship with Lionel, and it ended in April 1993, when MTH decided to re-enter the market with an O scale model of the General Electric Dash 8 diesel locomotive, which Wolf had first offered to produce for Lionel.
Williams had acquired some of the original tooling from the original Lionel Corporation after it sold the rights to the name to General Mills in 1969.
In 1969, Lionel Corp. sold the product die tooling for its struggling train line — sales declined to just over $ 1 million per year — and the rights to the Lionel brand name to the cereal company General Mills.
The Lionel trademarks were purchased by Richard Kughn, a Detroit real estate magnate who had bought the Lionel product line from General Mills in 1986.
* General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala CH, KBE, CLI-Third Prime Minister of Ceylon

General and Ismay
A Festival Council to advise the government was set up under General Lord Ismay.
In 1956, he was chosen by the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to succeed Lord Ismay as Secretary General.
According to the memoirs of British General Ismay:
Ismay accepted the position, but resigned after only six months to become the first Secretary General of NATO in 1952.
After retiring from NATO, Ismay wrote his memoirs, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay, served on a variety of corporate boards, and co-chaired the Ismay Jacob Committee, which reorganised the Ministry of Defence once again.
He subsequently made his well-known comment, " Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few " to General Ismay as they got into their car to leave.
The scope of the holdings is vast, from high level defence policy and strategic planning as, for example, in the papers of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke and General Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay down to the command of individual units in the field.
Afterwards, Churchill told Major General Hastings Ismay ‘ Don ’ t speak to me, I have never been so moved ’.

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