" It should be noted that Rudy H. Leverett was the Great-grandson of Major Amos McLemore, whom Newton Knight and his band killed while McLemore was engaged in the duty of capturing and returning the Jones County deserters to Confederate military duty.

Leverett was one of the commissioners sent in 1653 ; he took careful note of the colony's defenses while he was there.

Leverett and Brattle managed Harvard College while Harvard's President Increase Mather was in England for four years ( 1688 – 1692 )

Endecott sent Leverett as one of several commissioners to negotiate the inclusion of these settlements into the colonial government, which resulted in the eventual formation of York County, Massachusetts.

Some, but not all, of these remnants have been demolished as part of the Big Dig ; in particular, the Leverett Connector uses the northern pair of ramps in Somerville and had to be built around the southern pair of ramps.

Perle ’ s reasoning for implementing the Office of Special Plans was essentially to “ bring in people with fresh eyes to review the intelligence that the CIA and other agencies had collected .” In an interview with CNN on September 16, 2001 Perle announced " Even if we cannot prove to the standards that we enjoy in our own civil society that they were involved, we do know, for example, that Saddam Hussein has ties to Osama Bin Laden ..." Flynt Leverett, a senior staff member of the Bush National Security Council states: “ There were constant efforts to pressure the intelligence community to provide assessments that would support their views.

Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theater members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasberg.

In spite of pre-War opposition to secession and the number of " transient deserters " in the county, Leverett asserts that the activities of such formerly anti-secessionist individuals as McLemore along with the facts " that virtually every able-bodied man in the county was on active duty in organizations such as those commanded by McLemore ... and that the Union raiding party entering the county in June of 1863 was captured by civilians, and the Union prisoners had to be protected from the local citizens " -- among other facts — present undeniable evidence that the citizens of Jones County were loyal to the Confederacy.

Gibbons had negotiated exclusive trading privileges with la Tour in exchange for this help, and Leverett was also able to secure preferential trading privileges with the French.

Oliver Cromwell, with whom Leverett had good relations

Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was " one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country ; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder.

Dudley also angered the powerful Mather family when he awarded the presidency of Harvard to John Leverett instead of Cotton Mather, and consistently vetoed the election of councilors and speakers of the general court who had acted against him in 1689, further increasing his unpopularity in Massachusetts.

Leverett had inherited a share of this patent from his grandfather John Leverett.

Leverett had opposed accommodation of the king's demands, and the change to an accommodationist leadership was too late.

He had three sons, Luther Halsey Gulick ( 1892 – 1993 ) who developed theories of government policy, Leeds Gulick ( 1894 – 1975 ), and Sidney Lewis Gulick Jr. ( 1902 – 1988 ), and two daughters, Mrs. Leverett Davis and Mrs. John Barrow.

During this, a dispute broke out between Wesley Bailey and Leverett Coon, who had established a lodge, Excelsior, in Syracuse.

Leverett House was named after John Leverett ( whose grandfather, John Leverett had been the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ), who was President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724.

Leverett was a leader of the liberal movement in the Congregational Church and he opposed the powerful clergymen Increase and Cotton Mather, who had attempted to impose upon the College a new charter containing a loyalty oath that would have refused appointment to the faculty of anyone not willing to acknowledge the primacy of Biblical scripture.

During his tenure the Houses became coeducational and Leverett had for the first time a Co-Master, Carolyn Andrews.

As of May 13, 2012, Shutesbury still has no means to provide access to high-speed internet to any of its inhabitants ( aside from universal-placement satellite uplinks ); The Boston Globe ran a story in 2005 describing Shutesbury and its neighboring town, Leverett, as one of " America's Broadband Black Holes ".

He was twice defeated, in 1937 and 1940, for the Boston mayoralty by one of his closest former political confidants, Maurice J. Tobin, and in 1938 Leverett Saltonstall turned back Curley's attempt to recapture the Massachusetts governorship.

Politicians such as Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, Prescott Bush of Connecticut and Nelson Rockefeller of New York exemplified the pro-business liberal Republicanism of their social stratum, espousing internationalist views on foreign policy, supporting social programs, and holding liberal views on issues like racial integration.

Leverett enumerated multiple factors establishing Jones County residents ' overwhelming loyalty to the Confederacy, including ( 1 ) the proportion of eligible men in the county who served the Confederacy ; ( 2 ) the militant response of area residents to a Union raid at Rocky Creek balanced against their cordial reception of expeditions by Confederate officers Maury and Lowry ; ( 3 ) the repeated written requests of area residents to Confederate authorities for assistance defending against deserters ; ( 4 ) the community's shunning after the war of Newt Knight ; and ( 5 ) the renaming of the county by popular request " after the war to honor the two greatest heroes of the Confederacy, and this at a time when genuine Union supporters could be expected to be at the zenith of their influence ".

In 1642 Leverett and Edward Hutchinson were sent as diplomatic envoys to negotiate with the Narragansett chief Miantonomoh amid concerns that all of the local Indian tribes were conspiring to wage war on the English colonists.

The New Haven Colony petitioned the Commonwealth government of Oliver Cromwell for assistance against the Dutch threat, a position supported by Leverett, who went to England with Sedgwick in 1653 to press the colonial case for war.

Cromwell responded by giving Sedgwick a commission as military commander of the New England coast, and sent him and Leverett with several ships and some troops to make war on the Dutch.

Many of its leading members, Leverett among them, opposed the colonial crackdowns on religious dissenters.

Edward Randolph, sent by Charles to report on the New England colonies, reported in 1676 that Leverett believed the colony to be beyond the crown's reach: " He freely declared to me that the laws made by your Majesty and your Parliament obligeth them in nothing but what consists with the interest of that colony ".

Leverett and Robert Sedgwick both saw a significant benefit for their trading operations if the Dutch could be eliminated as competitors, and lobbied for military action against New Amsterdam, although religious moderates like Simon Bradstreet were opposed to it.

The Leverett Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains is the planned route through the TAM for the overland supply road between McMurdo Station and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

The South Quabbin region ( formerly the Swift River Valley ) includes the towns of Barre, Belchertown, Pelham, Ware, Hardwick, Leverett, and Shutesbury.

The Leverett Glacier is the planned route through the Transantarctic Mountains for the overland supply road between McMurdo Station and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

The Expedition will travel 3, 600 miles across Antarctica, from Patriot Hills on the west coast to the South Pole, heading north from there through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range, down the Leverett Glacier and across the Ross Ice Shelf to the coast at McMurdo.

The narrator, Leverett, is a lawyer from the South, but the story is primarily told through the recollections of its protagonist, a troubled artist named Cass.

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

Flynt Leverett calls Iran a rising power that might well become a nuclear power in coming years — if the US does not prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear technology, as part of a grand bargain under which Iran would cease its nuclear activities in exchange for a guarantee of its borders by the US.

Most of the settlers entered the county over what was called Charley's Trace, an Indian trail that came across from the Mississippi river and entered the hills about where Leverett is now located.

The notion that Jones County seceded from the confederacy was put to rest by Rudy H. Leverett in 1984.

The new dam, completed in 1910, stabilized the water level from Boston to Watertown, eliminating the existing mud flats, and a narrow embankment was built between Leverett Circle and Charlesgate.

** Leverett Saltonstall ( W ), from December 25, 1838

In March, 1630, John Beauchamp of London, England, and Thomas Leverett of Boston, England, obtained a grant of land from a company acting under the authority of the government of England.

He then worked on the successful 1960 campaign of Leverett Saltonstall ( US Republican Party for the U. S. Senate ) and was his Administrative Assistant from 1956 to 1961.

; Olmsted Park: from Route 9 at the Riverway south to Perkins Street, including Leverett Pond, Willow Pond, and Ward's Pond

Leverett became interested in developing more land in Maine as result of this and other official visits, and invested in a significant amount of land there, over and above the lands inherited from his father.

Leverett died in office, reportedly from complications of kidney stones, on 16 March 1678 / 9, and was interred at the King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston.

Leverett acted as an Indian commissioner from Massachusetts during Queen Anne's War ( 1701 – 1713 ).

In 1709, Leverett served as an emissary from Massachusetts Governor Joseph Dudley to New York's Governor John Lovelace in negotiations for the establishment of military cooperation between Massachusetts and New York on the frontier and for an aborted invasion of Canada.

The mountains were discovered in two observations by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933-35, one by Kennett L. Rawson from a position in about, at the end of his southeastern flight of November 22, 1934, and another by Quin Blackburn in December 1934, from positions looking up Leverett and Albanus Glaciers.

He was also the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, and a United States Senator from Massachusetts from February 1944, when he was appointed by Governor Leverett Saltonstall following the resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who went to serve in World War II, until December 1944, when a new senator was elected.

Leverett Glacier in Antarctica is about 80 km ( 50 mi ) long and 4 to 6 km ( 3 to 4 mi ) wide, draining northward from the Watson Escarpment, between the California and Stanford Plateaus, and then trending WNW between the Tapley Mountains and Harold Byrd Mountains to terminate at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf close east of Scott Glacier.

At the annual Harvard-Yale football game, students from Timothy Dwight and Leverett will host each other depending on the site of that year's Game.