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Marshall Formby of Plainview, former chairman of the Texas Highway Commission, suggested a plan to fill by appointment future vacancies in the Legislature and Congress, eliminating the need for costly special elections.
* Marshall Formby
The station was begun in 1948 by his uncle, Marshall Formby, a former state senator and highway commissioner from West Texas.
* Marshall Formby, a former county judge for Dickens County and a state senator, practiced law in Plainview and owned a chain of West Texas radio stations.
Texas politician Marshall Formby was born in Como in 1911.
Marshall Formby, later a Texas state senator, operated the Aspermont Star weekly newspaper in the middle 1930s.
He lost the Democratic nomination to former Navy Secretary John B. Connally, Jr. Other 1962 Democratic candidates included highway commissioner Marshall Formby of Plainview, state Attorney General Will Wilson, a future Republican convert, and Major General Edwin A. Walker, who made anticommunism the centerpiece of his campaign.
Marshall spent a number of his early domestic winters playing club cricket in England in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, initially with Formby cricket club on Merseyside, then moving to neighbours Northern in 2004 and helping them to their Premier League championship success the following year 2005.
Other contenders were the sitting Governor Price Daniel, highway commissioner Marshall Formby of Plainview, Attorney General Will Wilson, and Houston lawyer Don Yarborough, the favorite of liberals and organized labor.

Marshall and became
Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.
Gender and sexuality became popular topics, as did the relationship between history and anthropology, influenced by Marshall Sahlins ( again ), who drew on Lévi-Strauss and Fernand Braudel to examine the relationship between social structure and individual agency.
Clara Belle Marshall, from Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia, became the first woman to graduate from Acadia University in 1879.
During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.
In 1979, the Government of the Marshall Islands was officially established and the country became self-governing.
The Marshall Islands became a member of the United Nations in September 1991.
In May 2005, Chen Shui-bian, President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), became the first foreign head of state to make an official visit to the Marshall Islands.
Monaco did not appear in the list of these territories until 2004, when OECD became indignant regarding the Monegasque situation and denounced it in its last report, as well as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Liberia and the Marshall Islands, underlining its lack of co-operation as regards to financial information disclosure and availability.
The Soviet Union's " alternative " to the Marshall plan, which was purported to involve Soviet subsidies and trade with western Europe, became known as the Molotov Plan, and later, the COMECON.
Palau then became part of the Spanish East Indies, along with the Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands.
Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.
Shortly after the first troops began to assemble for transport to Europe, Marshall and Wilson hosted a delegation from the United Kingdom in which Marshall became privy to the primary war strategy.
As the war neared its end, Marshall became the first vice president to conduct cabinet meetings ; Wilson left him with this responsibility while traveling in Europe to sign the Versailles treaty and to work on gathering support for his League of Nations idea.
Wilson became the first president to personally deliver a treaty to be ratified by the Senate, which he presented to Marshall as the presiding officer during a morning session.
" Embroideries of all kinds " were offered through Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. catalogues, and church embroidery became and remained an important line of business for its successor companies into the twentieth century.
Owner Marshall was so mad at the outcome that he became a major force in passing the following major rule change after the season: A forward pass that strikes the goal posts is automatically ruled incomplete.
This later became known as the " Baugh / Marshall Rule ".
In 1934, Col. Marshall put Edwin F. Harding in charge of the Infantry School's publications, and Harding became editor of Infantry in Battle, a book that codified the lessons of World War I. Infantry in Battle is still used as an officer's training manual in the Infantry Officer's Course and was the training manual for most of the infantry officers and leaders of World War II.
On December 16, 1944, Marshall became the first American general to be promoted to five-star rank, the newly created General of the Army.

Marshall and County
Story County was chosen as the location on June 21, 1859, from proposals by Johnson, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Story counties.
West is the city of Albion and beyond that the cities of Marshall and Battle Creek, all in Calhoun County.
Thomas Marshall's paternal grandfather, Riley Marshall, immigrated to Indiana in 1817 and settled on a farm in what is now Whitley County.
** Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia ; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.
The Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ), the 42nd largest in the United States, has a 2010 population of 1, 316, 100 and includes the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette, as well as the Mississippi counties of DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, and Tunica, and Crittenden County, Arkansas.
* Marshall County ( south )
* John Marshall Harlan, former Franklin County judge.
The current States Senators for the second district are Senate President Jeffrey V. Kessler and Scott Varner who are both from Marshall County.
* Marshall County ( south )
Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp, along with temporary federal deputies Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams, former Kansas Sheriff Bat Masterson ( who was dealing faro at the Oriental Saloon ), and County Sheriff Behan set out to find the robbers.
Typha plants at the edge of a small wetland in Marshall County, Indiana | Indiana.
Category: Geography of Marshall County, Illinois
Blount County is bordered by Cullman, Marshall, Etowah, Jefferson, Walker, and St. Clair Counties.
* Marshall County, Alabama-northeast
* Marshall County, Alabama-northwest
* Boaz ( part of Boaz is in Marshall County )
* Marshall County ( east )
* Marshall County ( northeast )
* Arab ( part-most of Arab is in Marshall County )
* Marshall County, Alabama-west
* Marshall County, Alabama-southwest
* Marshall County ( southeast )
Marshall County is a county of the U. S. state of Alabama.
Marshall County is a dry county, with the exception of three cities within the county, Albertville, Arab, and Guntersville.
Marshall County was established on January 9, 1836.

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