* Laird Township

# REDIRECT Laird Township, Michigan

Tarbutt Township is a neighbour of Laird and is separated by a low-grade dirt road called " Townline Road " which spurs into a road to Pine Island.

* Township of Laird

Laird Township can refer to:

* Laird Township, Ontario

* Laird Township, Michigan

* Laird Township, Phelps County, Nebraska

de: Laird Township

A constituent, James Stewart, once commented to a friend who wrote this letter, "... he ( Stewart ) had come mainly to see one Jardine, an enormous Laird from Applegarth Parish and China, and a very good man ; who is understood to be dangerously ill at present.

The current Laird of the Keir estate is his nephew Archie Stirling, a millionaire businessman and former Scots Guards officer.

The Scottish title Laird is a shortened form of ' laverd ' which is an old Scottish word deriving from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning ' Lord ' and is also derived from the middle English word ' Lard ' also meaning ' Lord '.

' Laird ' is a hereditary title for the owner of a landed estate in the United Kingdom and is a title of gentry.

In different variations, Tam Lin is reportedly the grandson of The Laird of Roxburgh, the Laird of Foulis, the Earl of Forbes or the Earl of Murray.

Informally, when referring to a Scots feudal baron in the third person, the name Laird of is used or simply.

Melvin Robert " Bom " Laird ( born September 1, 1922 ) is an American politician and writer.

His niece is Jessica Laird Doyle, wife of former Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle.

Laird publicized Vietnamization widely ; in his final report as secretary of defense in early 1973, he stated: " Vietnamization ... today is virtually completed.

* Drum-Founded in 1893 by John W. Laird, Drum is located just south of the Route T and Route F intersection east of Glennon.

Laird Cottage is a restored 1870 residence with a mix of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles.

Neptune City also owns four parks, Memorial Park which is located along the Shark River, Laird Avenue Park, the first playground built in Neptune City, Joe Freda Park, which is located on Third Avenue, and Adams Field, which is located on West Sylvania Avenue.

It is said that " Manor " was added to the village's name after Law's friend Andrew Carnegie jokingly referred to Law as the " Laird of Briarcliff Manor " and the name stuck.

In addition to the time changes for the twelfth season, a new four-part story arc is introduced with MacMurray in a second role, that of his cousin, the Laird ( Lord ) Ferguson McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge.

The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame.

Richard Quentin ' Rick ' Laird is a jazz musician, born on 5 February 1941.

Richard Laird, as he is known in the art world, recently ( March 2009 ) came across a collection of photographs in a file cabinet that he had taken in years past of legendary jazz artists but had mostly forgotten about.

She is married to a Scottish Laird, Gabriel MacBain, to escape England, but is harassed by both King John's barons and the English faction hoping to take down King John, each party unsure of how much she knows.

Laird is a township and village in the Algoma District in Northern Ontario, Canada.

The township includes the named communities of Laird and Neebish.

es: Municipio de Laird ( condado de Houghton, Míchigan )

* Flora M Laird Memorial Library-A partner in the Coastline consortium of the Coos County Library Service District

Ruffner had, a short time prior to this ; upon the surrender of Hull, sent his wife and child to Licking County, to a Mr. Lair, or Laird, an uncle, who lived about one and a half miles ( two kilometres ) from Utica.

Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U. S. soldiers from the Vietnam War ; he invented the expression " Vietnamization ," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces.

Laird paid special attention to two important interdepartmental bodies: the Washington Special Action Group ( WSAG ), composed of senior Defense, State, and CIA officials, which gathered information necessary for presidential decisions on the crisis use of U. S. military forces ; and the Defense Program Review Committee ( DPRC ), which brought together representatives from many agencies, including DoD, State, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Office of Management and Budget, to analyze defense budget issues as a basis for advising the president, placing, as Laird commented, " national security needs in proper relationship to non-defense requirements.

Although not receptive to demands for immediate withdrawal, Laird acknowledged the necessity to disengage U. S. combat forces gradually.

In his final report in January 1973 Laird listed what he considered to be the major accomplishments of his tenure: Vietnamization ; achieving the goal of strategic sufficiency ; effective burden-sharing between the United States and its friends and allies ; adequate security assistance ; maintenance of U. S. technological superiority through development of systems such as the B-1, Trident, and cruise missiles ; improved procurement ; " People Programs " such as ending the draft and creating the AVF ; improved National Guard and Reserve forces ; enhanced operational readiness ; and participatory management.

Policy changed under the Nixon administration, when mistreatment of the prisoners was publicized by U. S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and others.

* Melvin Laird, U. S. House of Representatives ( 1952-1969 ), Secretary of Defense ( 1969-1973 )

One protester, Eau Claire student John Laird, the son of U. S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, made headlines when he announced his opposition to the war in Vietnam and his intention to join his fellow students in peaceful protest.

* James Laird, former Republican U. S. Representative of Nebraska's 2nd congressional district

* Mel Laird, former U. S. Secretary of Defense ( attended )

Laird v. Tatum, 408 U. S. 1 ( 1972 ) was a case in which the United States Supreme Court dismissed for lack of ripeness a claim in which the plaintiff accused the U. S. Army of alleged unlawful " surveillance of lawful citizen political activity.

* Melvin R. Laird ( attended 1938-39 ) was a U. S. Congressman ( 1952 – 69 ) and Secretary of Defense ( 1969 – 73 ).

Stuart v. Laird, 5 U. S. 299 ( 1803 ), was a case decided by the John Marshall-led U. S. Supreme Court, notably a week after the famous Marbury v. Madison.