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He was division superintendent in the Bureau of Education, Philippine Islands, 1908 – 1914 ; director of extension, Ohio University, 1916 – 1919 ; superintendent of Thornton Township High School and Junior College, Harvey, Ill., 1919 – 1947 ; president of North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in 1943 and 1944 ; professor of education at De Paul University 1948-1950 ; author ; elected assessor of Thornton Township in 1949 ; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses until his death in 1958.
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When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
Eventually responsibility for demographic inquiries in the Congo was transferred to the demographic division of the Central Statistical Office.
He finished the war as a major general, commanding a full division, and at 25 was the youngest major general in the history of the U.S. Army.
In March there was a division of the slaves, and Giffen carried out his instructions as nearly as possible.
Bobbie had been head of the alloy division, while John was just another good salesman in the regular branch.
He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.
Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.
Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.
Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.
( Personal initiative was required since his division commander, Brig.
) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.
Doubleday again led the division, now assigned to the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, after South Mountain, where Hatch was wounded again.
At Chancellorsville in May 1863, the division was kept in reserve.
At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.
Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.
The division of labour was initially discussed by Adam Smith, regarding the manufacture of pins, in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).
The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).
The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.
However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.
The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.
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All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.
Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.
The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.
It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.
In 1860, Alcott was named superintendent of Concord Schools.
William Robert Hicks the humorist was domestic superintendent in the mid-19th century.
In 1892, Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institute for the for the Education of the Blind, created the Hall Braille Writer, which was like a typewriter with 6 keys, one for each dot in a braille cell.
Number One Observatory Circle, located on the northeast grounds of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, was built in 1893 for its superintendent.
The maple body prototype for the one piece cast aluminum " Frying Pan " was built by Harry Watson, factory superintendent of National Guitar Corporation.
William Wright had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones ( 1838 / 39 – 1923 ), a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County.
In 1839 Charles La Trobe was appointed superintendent.
While still young, Jeroboam was promoted by Solomon to be chief superintendent of the " burnden ", i. e. the bands of forced laborers.
Robert E. Lee was appointed superintendent of the Academy in 1852, and Stuart became friends with the Lee family, seeing them socially on frequent occasions.
In 1808, soon after the death of his mother, he was appointed superintendent of the private library of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, into which Hesse-Kassel had been incorporated by Napoleon.
Goodale was a young European-American teacher from Massachusetts and a reformer, who was appointed as the US superintendent of Native American education for the reservations in the Dakota Territory.
In 1850 James Ferguson, Assistant Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory, noted that he had " lost " a star he had observed, GR1719k, which Lt. Matthew Maury, the superintendent of the Observatory, claimed was evidence that it must be a new planet.
A superintendent was over each division, all under the direction of George B. Armstrong, who had been summoned from Chicago to Washington, D. C. to become general superintendent of the postal railway service.
Armstrong's successor in Chicago, George S. Bangs, was appointed as the second general superintendent of the postal railway service.
At the time, the focus of the curriculum was engineering ; the head of the Army Corps of Engineers supervised the school and the superintendent was an engineering officer.
The Reverend Noyce was a Congregational clergyman and the associate superintendent of the Iowa Conference of Congregational Churches in the 1930s and 1940s.
George Hadfield was hired on October 15, 1795 as superintendent of construction, but resigned three years later in May 1798, due to dissatisfaction with Thornton's plan and quality of work done thus far.
Coke was then " set apart " as a superintendent ( bishop ) by Wesley and dispatched with Vasey and Whatcoat to America to take charge of Methodist activities there.
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