six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

In 1800, Manthey went abroad and Oersted was appointed manager of the Lion Pharmacy.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

Her husband recently was appointed vice president of the university, bringing them back here from the east.

A notable example of this was the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr. Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.

In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In time, it became natural to group these into provinces and a metropolitan was appointed for each province.

He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of the Orféo Català at Barcelona and often travelled there for that purpose.

At twelve, he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following remark about the young Karpov: " The boy does not have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.

As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.

Two years later, he received the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, and in 1991, was awarded the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan.

Aberdour was a 2005 finalist in the prestigious " Beautiful Scotland in Bloom " awards.

It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.

He was also named Console of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence, founded by the Duke Cosimo I, at 13 January 1563, under the influence of Vasari.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

A more prestigious position was that of a military tribune.

The office of consul was the most prestigious of all, and represented the summit of a successful career.

Another office not officially a step in the cursus honorum was the princeps senatus, an extremely prestigious office for a patrician.

The stand was opened in a prestigious friendly against S. L.

In 1824, Joseph Aspdin patented a similar material, which he called Portland cement, because the render made from it was in color similar to the prestigious Portland stone.

At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.

* In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy for his commitment to the ideals of " Duty, Honor, Country.

It was a matter of great surprise for Arabs that same protocol had been awarded to a concubine ( slave women ) as giving such prestigious protocol to a concubine was against their norms and traditions.

Speak out he did: " The battle between these two prestigious adversaries and Mather lasted far longer than the epidemic itself, and the literature accompanying the controversy was both vast and venomous.

Neither the range of objects nor the presence of prestigious dedications proves that Delphi was a focus of attention for a wide range of worshippers, but the large quantity of high value goods, found in no other mainland sanctuary, certainly encourages that view.

In 2006, Brubeck was awarded the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics, during the University's commencement.

Elfman was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2002 BMI Film and TV Awards.

Rome herself ( including her environs, as defined by a-radius perimeter around the City itself ) was not under the authority of the praetorian prefect, as she was to be administered by a City Prefect of senatorial rank – the sole prestigious post with actual power reserved exclusively for senators, except for some governors in Italy with the titles of corrector and the proconsuls of Asia and Africa.

Despite its initial recklessness, the alliance was very prestigious for both families.

To be one of David's students was considered prestigious and earned his students a lifetime of reputation.

He was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958 and the Linnaean Society of New York's inaugural Eisenmann Medal in 1983.