* Dismissal — some constitutions allow a Head of state ( or their designated representative, as is the case in Commonwealth countries ) to dismiss a Head of government, though its use can be controversial, as occurred in 1975 when then Australian Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the Australian Constitutional Crisis.

He then appeared in Edward, My Son ( 1949 ) with Deborah Kerr.

Kerr then appointed the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser, as caretaker Prime Minister.

Whitlam then turned to Sir John Kerr, the Chief Justice of New South Wales.

Kerr then agreed to take the post, was duly appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and was sworn in on 11 July 1974, Whitlam's 58th birthday.

In their accounts of their meeting, both men agree that Kerr then told Whitlam that his commission as Prime Minister was withdrawn under Section 64 of the Constitution, and handed him a letter and statement of reasons.

Both accounts agree that Kerr then stated that they would both have to live with this, to which Whitlam replied, " You certainly will.

Kerr wrote that " nothing else of relevance " took place between the two men, but by Scholes's account, he accused Kerr of bad faith for making an appointment to receive the Speaker, and then not waiting to hear from him before dissolving Parliament.

The then editor Euan Kerr was ecstatic by the fan reception citing the publication ' even got death threats!

The Whitlam Government ended in 1975 with a dramatic constitutional crisis in which the Queen's representative, the Governor-General ( then John Kerr ), dismissed Whitlam and his entire ministry, appointing Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser in his place.

Blake disappears and Kerr Avon then leads the group.

Two of the attendees were British contact jugglers Daniel Kerr and Andy Wilson, who then organized the first contact juggling convention in Europe ( BCJC ).

Since then, there have been personnel changes which included Caitriona Walsh, Nicola Kerr and Vikki James.

The comedy actor Sidney James, as he was then billed, played Sid, a criminally-inclined confidant of Hancock, who usually succeeded in conning him each week ; Bill Kerr appeared as Hancock's Australian lodger, a character who became noticeably dim-witted in the later shows.

" Walter Kerr, then the Times ' Sunday critic, also reacted favorably to the show while calling attention to its nonsensical frivolity: he deemed it " light as a breeze, and just plain out of its head.

For this book Kerr had to photograph the ceramics section by section, and then have an artist combine the pictures into one.

Naval Aviation was officially founded in 1914 by the then CinC of the Hellenic Navy, British Admiral Mark Kerr.

Kerr also served as Chairman, 1984 USPS National Agreement arbitration chairman — and then joined the USPS panel of national contract arbitrators.

* Howard Hillen Kerr ( 1900 – 1984 ) First principal of what was then Ryerson Polytechnical Institute

In 1963, at the insistence of the then President of the University of California Clark Kerr, the University named its newly constructed Education and Psychology faculty building at Berkeley " Tolman Hall " in his honor ; his widow was present at the dedication ceremony.

He then went on to play for the Chicago Bulls under Johnny Kerr during the Bulls ' formative years.

At the Battle of Culloden in 1746 Lord Mark Kerr's younger brother, Lord Robert Kerr, who was captain of the grenadiers in Barrel's regiment, received the first charging Cameron on the point of his Spontoon, but then a second cut him through the head to chin.

He was successful, defeating former Governor J. Howard Edmondson, who had been appointed to succeed Kerr, in the Democratic primary, then narrowly upsetting Republican nominee and legendary Oklahoma football coach Bud Wilkinson by 51 % to 49 %, and was sworn in as soon as the vote totals could be verified, becoming, again, one of the youngest members of the body in which he was serving.

As of May 5, 2008, D ' Antoni was told that he was free to speak with other teams about a coaching job next season, although Steve Kerr requested he stay with the Suns.

When Ireland was again left out, he requested to return to his club, and Kerr informed him that he would never play for the Republic of Ireland while Kerr was manager.

He briefly became Minister for the Northern Territory in late October 1975, but lost that post when the Whitlam Government was dismissed by Sir John Kerr on 11 November 1975.

The Coalition took the position that Kerr could dismiss Whitlam if the Government could not secure supply.

Kerr would receive no written advice from the Government until 6 November.

Kerr concluded on 6 November that neither Government nor Opposition would yield, and that supply would run out.

According to Fraser, Kerr asked him whether, if he were commissioned Prime Minister, he could secure supply, would immediately thereafter advise a double-dissolution election, and would refrain from new policies and investigations of the Whitlam Government pending the election.

Fraser left to return to Parliament House, where he conferred with Coalition leaders, while Kerr joined the luncheon party which had been waiting for him, apologising to his guests and offering the excuse that he had been busy dismissing the Government.

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# On 11 November 1975, when the Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed the Commonwealth Government.

It was created in 1940 for Charles Kerr, who had previously represented Montrose Burghs in the House of Commons, and served as Chief Whip for the National Liberal Party, a government whip and Comptroller of the Household in the National Government.

All but W. Kerr Scott generate hydroelectric power, which are managed by Alcoa under contract with the US Government, under FERC oversight.

The eldest of the brothers, Lord Mark Kerr, later the fourth Marquess of Lothian, commanded three squadrons of Government cavalry at the Battle of Culloden and survived to serve under the Duke of Cumberland in France in 1758.

This precedent was followed after Dixon's death, when then-Governor-General Sir John Kerr sought advice from Dixon's successor Sir Garfield Barwick CJ before controversially dismissing the Labor Government under Gough Whitlam in 1975.

( His younger brother, Lord Robert Kerr, was with the infantry and was the highest-ranking Government casualty of the battle.

Faced with a dramatic increase of students entering college, Kerr helped establish the now much-copied California system of having the handful of University of California campuses act as ' top tier ' research institutions, the more numerous California State University campuses handle the bulk of undergraduate students and the very numerous California Community College campuses provide vocational and transfer-oriented college programs to the remainder.

Another legacy was his wit — after writing a serious book " The Uses of the University ", Kerr surprised an audience with this riposte --" The three purposes of the University ?-- To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

In the optical or AC Kerr effect, an intense beam of light in a medium can itself provide the modulating electric field, without the need for an external field to be applied.

The " MEV ", as he referred to it in recipes, was intended to remedy what he perceived as a lack of focus in vegetarian meals ; according to Kerr, while omnivorous cuisine generally has a central focus in a meat dish, vegetarian plates are often little more than collections of side dishes, and the MEV was an attempt to provide a central focus for such meals.

During the 1999 referendum on becoming a republic, some critics asserted that the failure to provide security of tenure meant that the proposed presidency was fatally flawed from conception, with the officeholder unable to intervene except through a sudden, unannounced action such as that performed by Kerr in November 1975.

* Wahlquist fluid, which has similar symmetries to the Kerr vacuum, leading to initial hopes ( since dashed ) that it might provide the interior solution for a simple model of a rotating star.