The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

All this went through Casey's mind in the first instant, but what held his interest was the fact that these two should be together at all.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

The first committee meeting will be held on May 19.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

-- The first in a series of five productions will be held in War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 26.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

The first meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, a great big place where we were able to meet members from all the other states.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The ovum is at first rigidly held but in fertilised eggs, the innermost layer liquefies and allows the embryo to move freely.

That same year, first parliamentary and presidential elections were held.

# The Lambeth Conference ( first held in 1867 ) is the oldest international consultation.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

Free exhibitions often are held on the first floor, which also provides some opportunity to see the interior design.

The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.

His personal library, purchased after his death, eventually came to the University of Glasgow, where a commemorative exhibition of books from his library was held in 1974.

Central Committee members were elected to the seats because of the offices they held, not their personal merit.

Christadelphians reject a number of doctrines held by many other Christians, notably the immortality of the soul ( see also mortalism ; conditionalism ), trinitarianism, the personal pre-existence of Christ, the baptism of infants, the personhood of the Holy Spirit the divinity of Jesus and the present-day possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit ( see cessationism ).

According to the standard interpretation of Hume on personal identity, he was a Bundle Theorist, who held that the self is nothing but a bundle of experiences (" perceptions ") linked by the relations of causation and resemblance ; or, more accurately, that the empirically warranted idea of the self is just the idea of such a bundle.

Federal immigration inspectors were under strict supervision and were more interested in preventing inadmissible aliens from entering the country ( for which they were held accountable ) than in assisting them in trivial personal matters such as altering their names.

* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).

The Capetians, in a way, held a dual status of King and Prince ; as king they held the Crown of Charlemagne and as Count of Paris they held their personal fiefdom, best known as Île-de-France.

As his personal motto, Rau adopted the Confessing Church dictum “ teneo, quia teneor ” ( I hold because I am held ).

Kokwet meetings are held some distance from the personal space of any particular homestead yard.

Other archives are held at the University of Illinois at Chicago ( personal book collection ), the Canadian Center for Architecture ( drawings and photos ) in Montreal, the Newberry Library in Chicago ( personal correspondence ), the Library of Congress in Washington D. C.

Gregory also promoted the Church in northern Europe ; he supported the continuing mission of Saint Boniface in Germany, elevating him to the rank of archbishop of Germany in 732, and after a personal visit to Rome from Boniface in 737, where he was meant to attend a synod which does not appear to have been held, Gregory made Boniface a Papal legate in Germany, and asked him to reorganize the Episcopal sees in Germany.

The Kingdom of Norway long held in personal union by Denmark fell to Sweden after the Napoleonic Wars and only attained full independence in 1905.

The early Waffen-SS can trace its origins to 1934 in the SS-Verfügungstruppe: two Standarten ( regiments ) under retired general Paul Hausser armed and trained to Army standards, and held ready at the personal disposal of the Führer in peace or war.

Steven Anthony " Steve " Ballmer ( born March 24, 1956 ) is an American businessman who currently serves as the CEO of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000., his personal wealth is estimated at $ 15. 7 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.

In common law legal systems, a trust is a relationship whereby property ( real or personal, tangible or intangible ) is held by one party for the benefit of another.

A personal injury trust is any form of trust where funds are held by trustees for the benefit of a person who has suffered an injury and funded exclusively by funds derived from payments made in consequence of that injury.

The Supreme Court also held that individuals in automobiles have a reduced expectation of privacy, because vehicles generally do not serve as residences or repositories of personal effects.

Historians generally agree that the middle classes held high personal moral standards ( and usually followed them ), but have debated whether the working classes followed suit.

In sociology, value theory is concerned with personal values which are popularly held by a community, and how those values might change under particular conditions.

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

Rudolph had a special, personal reason to hope for victory — to pay tribute to Jesse Owens, the celebrated American athlete who had been her inspiration, also the star of the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, Germany.

Historians generally agree that the middle classes held high personal moral standards and rejected cohabitation.