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Hugh and Rank
Daniel Dieterich served as the second chairman of the Doublespeak committee after Hugh Rank in 1975.
This pattern was formulated by Hugh Rank and is a simple tool designed to teach some basic patterns of persuasion used in political propaganda and commercial advertising.
The Committee also presented the George Orwell Award for Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for 1975-76 to Professor Hugh Rank who created the pattern.
"-- Hugh Rank, chair, NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak
* 1976: Hugh Rank for the " Intensify / Downplay " schema for analyzing communication, persuasion, and propaganda
It features Nin's relationships with writer Henry Miller, his wife June Miller, the psychoanalyst Otto Rank, her father Joaquín Nin, and her husband Hugh Parker Guiler.

Hugh and formed
On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, a partnership, between William Jardine, James Matheson as senior partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners, was formed in China, taking the Chinese name ' Ewo ' ( 怡和 ) pronounced " Yee-Wo " and meaning ' Happy Harmony '.
Edward was still relying upon his French relatives – Isabella's uncle, Louis d ' Évreux, for example had been sent from Paris to assist him – but Hugh Despenser the elder now formed part of the inner circle, marking the beginning of the Despensers ' increased prominence at Edward's court.
Hugh Gibson ; Maitre G. de Leval, the legal adviser to the United States legation ; and Marquis de Villalobar, the Spanish minister, formed a midnight deputation of appeal for mercy or at least postponement of sentence.
In this year Bailey also formed the Music Improvisation Company with Parker, percussionist Jamie Muir and Hugh Davies on homemade electronics, a project that continued until 1971.
White County is Arkansas's 31st county, formed on October 23, 1835, from portions of Independence, Jackson, and Pulaski counties and named for Hugh Lawson White, a Whig candidate for President of the United States.
Bradley County is Arkansas's 43rd county, formed on December 18, 1840, and named for Captain Hugh Bradley, who fought in the War of 1812.
In 1710, the Baptist minister Hugh Davis moved to the Great Valley from Britain and, there being several Baptist families in this area, the Great Valley Baptist Church was formed on 22 April 1711.
Thus was formed a new municipality, Villa de la Santísima Trinidad de la Libertad translated “ Village of the Most Holy Trinity of Liberty .” Hugh B. Johnston was made alcalde.
In Scotland, the poet Hugh MacDiarmid formed something of a one-man modernist movement.
Hence, the BC Hydro and Power Authority Act merged BC Electric with another crown corporation, the BC Power Commission, into a newly formed BC Hydro which was co-chaired by Gordon Shrum of BC Electric and Hugh Keenleyside of BC Power Commission.
In 1323 James II formed an alliance with Hugh II of Arborea and, following a military campaign which lasted a year or so, occupied the Pisan territories of Cagliari and Gallura along with the city of Sassari, claiming the territory as the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica.
retelling of the Victorian tale Sweeney Todd formed the basis of Stephen Sondheim's musical of the same name, with book by Hugh Wheeler.
The Crusaders had formed a line of battle with Bohemund, Tancred, Robert of Normandy, and Stephen on the left wing, Raymond, Robert of Flanders in the centre and Godfrey, Robert of Flanders, and Hugh on the right, and they rallied against the Turks, proclaiming " hodie omnes divites si Deo placet effecti eritis " (" today if it pleases God you will all become rich ").
' Butskellism ' is the ( moderately satirical ) term used in British politics to refer to the political consensus formed in the 1950s and associated with the exercise of office as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Rab Butler of the Conservative Party and Hugh Gaitskell of the Labour Party.
No job was found for him until Hugh Trenchard formed his Independent Bomber Command and he was attached as a group intelligence officer to prepare navigational briefings for attacks on Berlin.
After Hugh Bourne and a significant number of his colleagues, including the Standley Methodist Society, had been put out of membership of the Burslem Wesleyan Circuit, they formed a group known as the Camp Meeting Methodists until 1811 when they joined with the followers of William Clowes, the " Clowesites ".
He was awarded the Albert Medal for this act on the personal recommendation of General Hugh Trenchard, and in February 1916 was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and given command of Training No. 6 Wing in England. In December 1916 he took command of No. 9 Wing in France, a long-range bomber and reconnaissance formation, and in October 1917 took command of the newly formed No. 41 Wing.
The third airborne unit that formed a part of the 6th Airborne Division was the 6th Airlanding Brigade, commanded by Brigadier Hugh Bellamy.
It formed part of the dowry of Juliana de Vere when she married Hugh Bigod in the mid-12th century, and the sub-tenancy passed to the Bigod earls of Norfolk who held it as one knight's fee of the Veres.
Seeing potential for a camp in warmer climes, he formed a company under the chairmanship of Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford and bought land in Grand Bahama.
In 1850, the British Association in Edinburgh formed a committee to study forest destruction at the behest of Dr. Hugh Cleghorn.
When General Hugh S. Johnson formed the Labor and Industrial Advisory Board in 1933 to implement Section 7 ( a ) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, Murray agreed to serve on the new body.
The city of Florence bore the seven youths who formed the nucleus of the order: Buonfiglio dei Monaldi ( Bonfilius ), Giovanni di Buonagiunta ( Bonajuncta ), Amadeus of the Amidei ( Bartolomeus ), Ricovero dei Lippi-Ugguccioni ( Hugh ), Benedetto dell ' Antella ( Manettus ), Gherardino di Sostegno ( Sostene ), and Alessio de ' Falconieri ( Alexius ); they belonged to seven patrician families of that city, and had early formed a confraternity of laymen, known as the Laudesi, or Praisers of Mary.

Hugh and committee
His younger brother, Arthur Hugh Bunker ( July 29, 1895-May 19, 1964 ), was also a noted businessman, chairman of the executive committee of the War Production Board ( 1941 – 1945 ) during World War II, and president and then board chairman of American Metal Climax ( AMAX ).
It was first formulated in 1842 by a committee appointed by the British Association to consider the rules of zoological nomenclature ; the committee's report was written by Hugh Edwin Strickland.
A design committee chaired by the distinguished polymath-artist Sir Hugh Casson was created to drive the project, and the architect Leonard Manasseh was given the contract for the design of the building.
The committee consisted of Paul Godfrey, Larry Grossman and former Ontario Hydro chairman Hugh Macaulay.
For the first, the Battle of Britain Chapel in Westminster Abbey, Trenchard headed a committee with Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to raise funds for the furnishing of the chapel and for the provision of a stained glass window.
Hugh O ' Donnell, a heater in the plant and head of the union's strike committee, then spoke to the crowd.
Hugh O ' Donnell was removed as chair of the strike committee when he proposed to return to work at the lower wage scale if the unionists could get their jobs back.
* Hugh Sloan ( born 1940 ), American political aide, treasurer of Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign committee
He also served, with Hugh McGregor Ross and others, on the separate committee which defined the ASCII character codeset in 1960, contributing several characters which had not previously been used by computers including the ESCape character, the backslash character, and the curly bracket characters.
The organisation was governed by a committee initially comprising Anthony Eden ( Foreign Secretary ), Brendan Bracken ( Minister of Information ) and Hugh Dalton ( Minister of Economic Warfare ), together with officials Rex Leeper, Dallas Brooks and Robert Bruce Lockhart as chairman ( and later Director General ).
Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. ( b. November 1, 1940 in Princeton, New Jersey ) was Treasurer of the Committee to Re-elect the President, Richard M. Nixon's 1972 campaign committee.
They were on good terms also with Hugh Walpole ; Priestley, Walpole and Sylvia Lynd were founding committee members of the Book Society.
However, the War Office proved more amenable, and in early August 1881 a special Royal Engineer committee was instructed to inspect the torpedo at Chatham and report back directly to the Secretary of State for War, Hugh Childers.
: This committee has had no evidence before it that would in the slightest degree warrant calling before it such men as John W. Davis, Gen. Hugh Johnson, General Harbord, Thomas W. Lamont, Admiral Sims, or Hanford MacNider.

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