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In June 1780 Amherst oversaw the British army as they suppressed the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London: after the outbreak of rioting Amherst deployed the small London garrison of Horse and Foot Guards as best as he could but was hindered by the reluctance of the civil magistrates to authorise decisive action against the rioters.
The President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, a post held under Eisenhower by Cutler, Dillon Anderson, William Harding Jackson, and finally Gordon Gray, oversaw the flow of recommendations and decisions up and down the policy hill, and functioned in Council meetings to brief the Council and summarize the sense of discussion.
After the death of Sir Gordon Phillips due to the Legacy Virus, Sebastian Shaw positioned himself as the new Lord Imperial and, as such, oversaw the entire Hellfire Club.
In 1963, William ’ s great grandson, Charles Gordon oversaw construction of the Girvan grain distillery – now the world ’ s second largest grain whisky producer.

Gordon and Avro
* Crawford Gordon Jr. left the Department of Defense Production in 1951 to take over as President and General Manager of A. V. Roe Canada to assist with problems in development and production of the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck.
The Arrow is a four-hour miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1996, starring Dan Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader during World War II and president of A. V. Roe Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro Arrow supersonic jet interceptor.

Gordon and Canada's
Sauvé was the first female governor general in Canada's history, and only the second woman amongst all the Commonwealth realms both previous and contemporary to the time to assume the equivalent office, after Elmira Minita Gordon, who was in 1981 appointed Governor-General of Belize.
* Gordon Lightfoot used the term navvies in his " Canadian Railroad Trilogy ," a song written to commemorate Canada's centennial in 1967: " We are the navvies who work upon the railway, swingin ' our hammers in the bright, blazing sun.
Gordon Laxer presented a talk in which he questioned why Canada's oil exports were being used to guarantee US energy security, as opposed to Canada using its energy resources to provide for the security of Canadians first, and then others.
From 1955 to 1957, Gordon chaired the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects.
The previous two were Gordon Churchill during the 1950s and the son of Canada's first Prime Minister, Hugh John Macdonald, who served as a cabinet minister in the late 19th century.
He was formally in the employ of the Department of External Affairs until 1959, though for several years during that time he was seconded by the Department of Finance to serve as Secretary for the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects ( the " Gordon Commission "); his work drafting the multi-volume Report of the commission was widely praised.
One of Canada's most respected financial authors and an expert on mutual funds, Gordon Pape is the editor and publisher of the Internet Wealth Builder ( IWB ), The Income Investor, and The Canada Report and founding editor Mutual Funds / ETFs Update.
The markets barely reacted and on September 13, Gordon Nixon, CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada, mentioned in passing that he was not opposed to Canada's largest bank converting into a trust.
His father, Gordon McKinnon Turnbull, was a soldier and World War II veteran of The Royal Canadian Regiment, frequently stationed in Great Britain as part of Canada's contribution to the Imperial Forces of the British Empire defending the political and cultural center of the Empire, the United Kingdom, during the Battle of Britain.
The club originally earned a reputation as one of Canada's hippest music clubs, and many major Canadian comedy and musical performers have played on its stage, including The Kids in the Hall, Gordon Downie, The Frantics, Sean Cullen and the infamous Dark Shows.

Gordon and expansion
The responsible colonial officer David Gordon Hines from 1947 to 1959 achieved the vast expansion of the co-operatives: by the early 1950s, there were over 400 co-operatives nationally.
Though Stepien eventually threatened to move the franchise to Toronto and rename it the Toronto Towers, but brothers George and Gordon Gund purchased the franchise in the mid 1980s and decided to keep the team in Cleveland ( a decade later, Toronto would eventually receive an expansion franchise, the Toronto Raptors.
The 1963 Robbins Report on the future of UK higher education recommended major expansion, which led to the renaming of the institution to Robert Gordon ’ s Institute of Technology to suggest its increasing role in higher education rather than further education.
The firm experienced international expansion in the post-World War II era under the direction of Boykin C. Wright, a senior partner who joined the firm from Cahill Gordon & Reindel with a group of attorneys, briefly leading the firm to add his name to the letterhead.
Gordon disagreed, often sharply, with Pearson over the significant expansion in federal expenditures and the decline of sound financial management in Pearson's second administration, which began in 1965.
For example, Gordon Brown was reported to be " planning a massive expansion of the ID cards project that would widen surveillance of everyday life by allowing high-street businesses to share confidential information with police databases.
During 1999 Davies, together with Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon, composed The Ghost of Time as an expansion of " Great Southern Land " into a forty minute performance for Sydney's part of the worldwide millennial celebrations.
The arrival of American entrepreneur Lee Gordon in 1953 marked a major expansion in Australian entertainment.
To the TWS and many Australians, the Gordon and Franklin Rivers were seen as part of the South West Wilderness, and not as an extension of the on-going HEC expansion.
It was later confirmed that players would reprise the role of Gordon Freeman, unlike the original Half-Life expansion packs, which all dealt with different characters.
Leggett's tenure at Queen's saw the largest capital renewal program in the University's 160-year history, including the construction of Chernoff Hall, Goodes Hall, Beamish-Munro Hall, Leggett Hall and Watts Hall, the expansion of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the renovation / restoration of Gordon Hall.

Gordon and during
In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.
Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.
In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.
Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.
A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon, Diana Ross, Chantay Savage, rock group Cake and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream.
The Jello stereotype developed during a time when the Mormon church, lead by Gordon B. Hinckley, more actively engaged with wider society, such as by giving interviews with the press.
In 1997, after his sponsorship with Coca-Cola ended, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon signed a long term contract with Pepsi, and he drives with the Pepsi logos on his car with various paint schemes for about 2 races each year, usually a darker paint scheme during nighttime races.
As a result, Gordon and Trainor argue he was slow to act during the crucial months following the fall of Baghdad.
The Gordon Riots erupted in London during the spring of 1781, in response to increased concessions to Catholics by Parliament.
The Kendall College presidents during 1907-1919 were: Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Lamb, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell.
The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.
The field commander of the Gordon regiment during the campaign, Lieutenant Colonel, John Cameron of Fassiefern, had been killed at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June.
** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).
Mrs. Mitchell and her son Gordon were on the set during much of the production.
In the 1960s G. Gordon Liddy ( who went to prison for crimes committed during the Nixon administration's Watergate scandal and now a talk show host ), was a Dutchess County assistant district attorney when he repeatedly tried to have Timothy Leary arrested on drug charges.
On October 3, 1993 Gordon was Sniper Team Leader during Operation Gothic Serpent, a joint-force assault mission to apprehend key advisers to Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
Three times during the narrative, he tells stories to his friends, and two stories are presented in the text as short stories by Gordon Lachance, complete with attribution to the magazines in which they were published.
Gordon is also revealed to be a veteran of the Vietnam War and the counter-culture of the 1960s, occasionally referred to in the flash-forward narratives during the main story.
Hudson Luce purchased the rights to Factsheet Five and published a single issue, Issue # 45, with the help of BBS enthusiast Bill Paulouskas, cartoonist Ben Gordon, writer Jim Knipfel, and artist Mark Bloch, who had authored a mail art-related column called " Net Works " during the Gunderloy years.
Its advocacy had grown partly out of the standards of utility furniture created during the war ( Gordon Russell, the Director of the CoID, had been Chairman of the Utility Furniture Design Panel ) and partly out of the CoID's Britain Can Make It exhibition of 1946.
In 1884 Kitchener was an aide-de-camp during the failed Gordon relief expedition in the Sudan.
The new prison was almost finished when it was stormed by a mob during the Gordon riots in June 1780.
Gordon chose to stay, but during the ensuing siege he refused to fire upon the town, while the besiegers inflicted little damage on the castle.
Despite Dundee's initial successes in the north, Gordon eventually surrendered on 14 June, due to dwindling supplies, and having lost 70 men during the three-month siege.
The only addition with no professional acting experience was the Holmfirth resident Gordon Wharmby, who performed so well during his audition as mechanic Wesley Pegden that Alan J. W. Bell cast him in one episode.

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