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In 1908 President Boothe C. Davis of Alfred University persuaded the New York State legislature to locate the New York State School of Agriculture at the Alfred University Campus ; the resulting allocation of $ 75, 000 for three buildings, a farm, livestock, and machinery would set plans for the school in motion.
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Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.
Stephen Grover Cleveland ( March 18, 1837June 24, 1908 ) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.
* 1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States ( d. 1979 )
However, the Court did uphold some economic regulation such as state prohibition laws ( Mugler v. Kansas ), laws declaring maximum hours for mine workers ( Holden v. Hardy, 1898 ), laws declaring maximum hours for female workers ( Muller v. Oregon, 1908 ), President Wilson's intervention in a railroad strike ( Wilson v. New, 1917 ), as well as federal laws regulating narcotics ( United States v. Doremus, 1919 ).
* January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States ( b. 1908 )
* November 27 – Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician, former President of the Government ( b. 1908 )
Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt had declined to run for re-election in 1908 in fulfillment of a pledge to the American people not to seek a second full term.
Image: William Howard Taft, Bain bw photo portrait, 1908. jpg | President William Howard Taft of Ohio
Lyndon Baines Johnson ( August 27, 1908 –&# 32 ; January 22, 1973 ), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States ( 1963 – 1969 ), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States ( 1961 – 1963 ).
President Teddy Roosevelt appointed him to the National Conservation Commission in 1908, and it was Mackenzie, then manager of the Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company, with whom Roosevelt stayed when he visited Brazil in 1913.
* 1908 Future President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson is born in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River.
Fairbanks sought the Republican nomination for President but Roosevelt ( who chose to not seek reelection ) supported William Howard Taft as his potential successor in 1908, sending Fairbanks back to the practice of law.
From 1908 until 1950, Richfield's local government consisted of a President, three trustees, and a clerk.
* Grover Cleveland ( 1837 – 1908 ), 22nd and 24th President of the United States ( summer resident )
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Image: Claude Monet 039. jpg | Palace From Mula, Venice, 1908, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
He tried to liquefy the last remaining gas, Helium, which condenses into a liquid at − 268. 9 ° C, but owing to a number of factors, including a lack of Helium with which to work, Dewar was preceded by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes as the first person to produce liquid helium, in 1908.
* April 15, 1908: Asheville, North Carolina Dr. C. O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute.
The club was formed in 1882, as Hotspur F. C., and played in the Southern League until 1908, when it was elected into the Football League Second Division.
The club's two best wins were 10 goals to 2 over Norwich City on 5 September 1908 and 10 goals to 1 over Farnham United Breweries F. C.
In 1916, William C. Durant, who founded General Motors in 1908, had retaken GM from bankers who had taken over the company.
In 1904, local entrepreneur William C. Durant was brought in to manage Buick, which became the largest manufacturer of automobiles by 1908.
The grounds once housed a football ground, which hosted the FA Cup final from 1895 to 1914 as well as London County Cricket Club games from 1900 to 1908, when they folded, and Crystal Palace F. C.
The Magoffin County Institute, Salyersville's first high school, was founded in 1908 by A. C. Harlowe.
Miss Ethel Peele was the first female graduate in 1908, while Mr. C. Abram Roberson was the first male graduate.
Huddersfield today is a town of higher education, the media and sports, being home to the rugby league team, Huddersfield Giants, founded in 1895, who currently play in the European Super League and Football League Championship football team Huddersfield Town F. C., founded in 1908.
The Sixteenth Edition ( October 1905 ) was edited by J. C. DaCosta, and the Seventeenth ( September 1908 ) by DaCosta and E. A. Spitzka.
* C. G. Mannerheimin Valokuvia Aasian-Matkalta 1906 – 1908 ( Photographs By C. G. Mannerheim From His Journey Across Asia 1906 – 1908 ), ( Otava, Keuruu: 1990 ) ISBN 951-1-11357-7.
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