In July 1970, AMC acquired 100 % of Holmes Foundry through an exchange of shares, making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

* 1779: Of 16 shares: 2 shares: Todd & McGill, B & J Frobisher, McGill & Patterson, McTavish & Co, Holmes & Grant, Wadden & Co, McBeath & Co ; 1 share: Ross & Co, Oakes & Co.

Of 16 shares: 3 shares: Simon McTavish, B & J Frobisher ; 2 shares: George McBeath, Robert Grant, Nicholas Montour, Patrick Small ; 1 share: Peter Pond, William Holmes.

He shares elements with both Sherlock Holmes and Ellen MacArthur.

In the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Professor Moriarty acquires shares in many military supply companies and plots to instigate a world war and make a fortune.

On 19 March 2006, the voting members of the South Sydney club voted ( in a 75. 8 % majority ) to allow Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes à Court to purchase 75 % of the organisation, leaving 25 % ownership with the members.

In his majority opinion, Justice Holmes introduced the clear and present danger test, which would become an important concept in First Amendment law ; but the Schenck decision did not formally adopt the test.

The vast majority of legal scholars have concluded that in writing the Schenck opinion Justice Holmes never meant to replace the " bad tendency " test which had been established in the 1868 English case R. v. Hicklin and incorporated into American jurisprudence in the 1904 Supreme Court case U. S. ex rel.

Although Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes joined the Court majority in upholding Schenck's conviction in 1919, he also introduced the theory that punishment in such cases is limited to political expression that constitutes a " clear and present danger " to the government action at issue.

Holmes accused the majority of judicial activism, pointedly claiming that the case was " decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain.

Justice Sanford wrote for the seven-justice majority opinion, and invoked the Holmes test of " clear and present danger " but went further.

Justice Brandeis and Justice Holmes concurred in the result because of the Fourteenth Amendment questions, but there is no question that the sentiments are a distinct dissent from the views of the prevailing majority and supported the First Amendment.

" However, he later disappointed Roosevelt by dissenting in Northern Securities Co. v. United States, a major antitrust prosecution ; the majority of the court, however, did rule against Holmes and sided with Theodore Roosevelt's belief that Northern Securities violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

In 1927, Holmes wrote the 8-1 majority opinion in the Buck v. Bell case that upheld the forced sterilization of a woman who was claimed to be of below average intelligence.

Justice Holmes dissented strongly from the logic and ruling of the majority.

Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself.

In the 1927 US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes closed the 8-1 majority opinion upholding the sterilization of Carrie Buck, with the phrase, " Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

It is currently administered and majority owned by David Holmes Black ( no relation to Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black ).

He often voted with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Louis Brandeis, usually in dissent from the conservative majority dominant on the Court at that time, though Holmes's famous dissent from the Abrams v. United States decision was in response to Clarke's majority opinion.

Holmes wrote that he differed with the majority " with hesitation and unwillingness " because he thought the law did not impose an undue restriction on the liberty of the teacher since it was not arbitrary, was limited in its application to the teaching of children, and the State had areas where many children might hear only a language other than English spoken at home.

In his majority opinion, Associate Justice Holmes outlined the pertinent facts of the case, in a somewhat acerbic manner ,, before proceeding to the Court ’ s considerations and decision.

** The vast majority of TurboGrafx-16 games use 256 × 224, though some games, such as Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective did use 512 × 224.

) Unlike many rotten boroughs, no single landowner controlled a majority of the burgages, the reversionary right in them belonging to three families ( Barrington, Holmes and Anderson-Pelham ), so divided that any two had a majority over the third.

Witherspoon, who had lost a disputed decision to Holmes the previous year, pulled off an upset and took the title with a twelve-round majority decision.

Writing in dissent, Oliver Wendell Holmes accused the majority of basing its decision on laissez-faire ideology.

However, his cocaine use and freebasing continued on and off, although it has been almost unanimously attested by Holmes ' co-stars ( post Wonderland ) that Holmes was consistently professional on set.

B. Holmes, professional golfer

Larry Holmes ( born November 3, 1949 ) is a former professional boxer.

Holmes won his first forty-eight professional bouts, almost matching Rocky Marciano's streak of 49 straight wins, including victories over Ken Norton, Muhammad Ali, Gerry Cooney, and Marvis Frazier.

After compiling an amateur record of 19-3, Holmes turned professional on March 21, 1973, winning a four-round decision against Rodell Dupree.

Witherspoon, a six to one underdog and with only 15 professional bouts to his name, surprised many by giving Holmes a difficult fight.

He retained the Heavyweight crown three times, which included victories over former champions George Foreman and Larry Holmes, before suffering his first professional loss to Riddick Bowe on November 13, 1992.

Liar is a personal work that deals with the end of her seven-year relationship with the professional wrestling fan Michael Holmes, author of the critically acclaimed Parts Unknown.

Along with Larry Holmes, Berbick is one of only two men in professional boxing history to have fought both Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.

" Biddle also said that Holmes " refused to let his preferences ( other men were apt to call them convictions ) interfere with his judicial decisions ... The steadily held determination to keep his own views isolated from his professional work is aptly shown by his famous remark in the Lochner case-the Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics ... A constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory.

To fans of Sherlock Holmes who enjoy treating the stories as altered accounts of real events, the true identity of this snake has been a puzzle since the publication of the story, even to professional herpetologists.

* Hap Holmes ( 1889 – 1940 ), Canadian professional ice hockey goalie

* Jimmy Holmes ( b. 1953 ), Irish former professional footballer

* Ken Holmes a. k. a. Mr. Kennedy ( b. 1976 ), American professional wrestler and actor

* Mike Holmes ( b. 1963 ), Canadian professional contractor and host of Holmes on Homes

His brother Neil, son Gregor and nephew Matty Holmes were also professional footballers.

Created and written by Rupert Holmes ( with music also by Holmes ) and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events ( both dramatic and comic ) in the personal and professional lives of the station's staff in the era before and during World War II.

It was edited by Blair R. Holmes, a professional historian, and Alan F. Keele, a German-language specialist.

Harry George " Hap " Holmes ( February 21, 1892 – June 27, 1941 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.

As a professional, Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams.