Category: Rockefeller family

The clinic received a large amount funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make donations to Sanger's causes in future decades, but generally made them anonymously to avoid public exposure of the family name, and to protect family member Nelson Rockefeller's political career since openly advocating birth control could have led to the Catholic Church opposing him politically.

The Rockefeller family owned the JY Ranch, which bordered Grand Teton National Park to the southwest.

In November 2007, the Rockefeller family transferred ownership of the ranch to the park for the establishment of the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve, which was dedicated on June 21, 2008.

* Kykuit, Rockefeller family estate, Pocantico Hills, New York

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A more literal reading of Tolkien's text and comparison to historical instead of living factual persons ( notably John D. Rockefeller or the Rothschild family ) would result in a much higher estimate, as much as $ 870 billion, according to the article.

The Rockefeller family estate ( see Kykuit ), whose grounds abut Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, contains the private Rockefeller cemetery.

Restoration of the park was supported, substantially, by the Rockefeller family, particularly John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Regrowth was mostly allowed to occur naturally and the fire has been suggested to have actually enhanced the beauty of the park, adding diversity to tree populations and depth to its scenery.

Category: Institutions founded by the Rockefeller family

Category: Institutions founded by the Rockefeller family

Dewey later worked for family friend Nelson Rockefeller and his Office of Inter-American Affairs, part of the Office of War Information.

After his death, Dewey's non-fiction book, As They Were, about life in Paris before the war, was published with the help of his widow Nancy and the Rockefeller family.

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The Rockefeller family had an estate which has been turned into Ocean County Park.

William Rockefeller began buying property in the town around 1896 in order of establish an estate, used by members of his family during the summer.

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Category: Institutions founded by the Rockefeller family

Moynihan's political career started in the 1950s when he served as a member of New York governor Averell Harriman's staff, a stint which ended following Harriman's loss to Nelson Rockefeller in the 1958 general election.

Johnson was then defeated in the general election by Rockefeller, who became the state's first GOP governor since Reconstruction.

Other Rockefeller running-mates, such as former Democratic State Representative Jerry Thomasson of Arkadelphia, who sought the office of attorney general in 1966 and 1968, and Leona Troxell of Rose Bud in White County, who ran for state treasurer in 1968, were defeated.

In the general election, he swamped the incumbent moderate Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

In 1970, as the running mate of Dale Leon Bumpers, Riley defeated Republican candidate, Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock, the ticket-mate of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, whom Bumpers crushed in the general election.

In general, Rockefeller Republicans oppose socialism and the redistribution of wealth while supporting some pragmatic regulation of business and federal social programs in matters pertaining to the public good.

Though academic jobs were scarce in 1930, he had won a Rockefeller Fellowship which enabled him to study the Canadian party and electoral systems in general and Saskatchewan's in particular.

However, Johnson then lost the general election, 257, 203 votes ( 45. 6 percent ) to the moderate Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, who polled 306, 324 ballots ( 54. 4 percent ).

She lost the nomination by a wide margin in a runoff with State Representative Marion H. Crank ( 1915 – 1994 ) of Foreman in Little River County, who was in turn narrowly defeated by Rockefeller in the general election.

The eventual party nominee, James D. Johnson, a former Arkansas Supreme Court justice from Conway, and an avowed segregationist, was defeated in the November general election by the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller of Morrilton.

The liberal wing of the Republican Party had ceased to play a significant role in the party by the 1980s, with most of the Rockefeller Republicans retiring, or being defeated in primaries by more conservative Republicans or in general elections by Democrats.

This gave him contacts with Wall Street which made him general manager of the Rockefeller Institute from 1910-1912.

He poured Rockefeller resources into the social sciences in general and the SSRC in particular.

Originally in Manhattan at 432 Fourth Avenue, the DC Comics offices have been located at 480 and later 575 Lexington Avenue ; 909 Third Avenue ; 75 Rockefeller Plaza ; 666 Fifth Avenue ; and 1325 Avenue of the Americas.

A recent Rockefeller Foundation Study found that music majors have the highest rate of admittance to medical schools, followed by biochemistry and the humanities.

Ford and Rockefeller are the only two people to have served as Vice President without having been elected to the office, and Ford remains the only person to have served as both Vice President and President without being elected to either office.

The home includes a 32 foot circular living room that is rumored to have been the prototype for the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center.

Further alternative explanations that have been put forward include the waning of the crack epidemic, unrelated growth in the prison population due to Rockefeller drug laws, and that the number of males aged 16 – 24 was dropping regardless due to the shape of the US population pyramid.

Trees from Wayne have been selected to serve as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York City in 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2006.

America's most prominent pneumococcus expert, Oswald Avery, in New York at The Rockefeller Hospital — which opened in 1910 on The Rockefeller Institute's campus — initially explained that Griffith's experiments must have been poorly conducted and succumbed to contamination.

Recently, the Macheteros have focused on public education regarding the use of Culebra and Vieques as bombing targets for the U. S. Navy ; the disproportionate number of military bases on the island ( compared to states in the Union ); the proportion of deaths within the ranks of the Independence and Nationalist leadership, including the alleged experimentation with radiation on Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos while he was incarcerated ; the secret testing of Agent Orange on Puerto Rican soil ; and cancer " experiments " administered by Cornelius P. Rhoads, in which he admitted killing Puerto Rican patients and injecting cancer cells to others, working as part of a medical investigation conducted in San Juan's Presbyterian Hospital for the Rockefeller Institute.

These representatives have included the former president John D. Rockefeller 3rd, and then his son John D. Rockefeller, IV, who gave up the trusteeship in 1981.

Some believe that Michael Rockefeller may have been taken by headhunters in western New Guinea as recently as 1961.

Faithful Republican leaders who have worked tirelessly over the years have been pushed aside or replaced ... A stranger passing through Arkansas at this time and seeing Mr. Rockefeller's advertising on billboards would not know whether Mr. Rockefeller belonged to any political party.

McClerkin argued that the list may have contained the names of those who merely disagreed with Rockefeller politically.

David Vandergriff, a conservative attorney from Fort Smith, said that the rightist faction gained full control of the Arkansas GOP in 1981: " The Reagan Republicans didn't run off the Rockefeller Republicans, but they left for whatever reasons ... A lot of the Rockefeller Republicans disappeared when he left office, and those that remained have continued to fall by the wayside.

" Kriegel has received both Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships and three of his books have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Jay and Sharon have four children: John D. Rockefeller V ( Jamie ), Valerie, Charles, and Justin.