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Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.
In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.
The Governor-General Lord Casey sent for the Country Party leader and Coalition Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, and he was sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Liberals elected a new leader.
In the interim, on 19 December, McEwen was sworn in as Prime Minister on the understanding that his commission would continue only until such time as the Liberals could elect a new leader.
With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.
This was the period of the Country Party's greatest power, as was demonstrated in 1962 when McEwen was able to insist that Menzies sack a Liberal Minister who claimed that Britain's entry into the European Economic Community was unlikely to severely impact on the Australian economy as a whole.
McEwen was sworn in as an interim Prime Minister pending the election of the new Liberal leader.
* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).
McEwen agreed to accept an interim appointment provided there was no formal statement of time limit.
He was elected party leader on 9 January 1968, and appointed Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.
Sir John " Black Jack " McEwen, GCMG, CH ( 29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980 ), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.
McEwen was born at Chiltern, Victoria to David James McEwen ( died 1907 ), a pharmacist from Ireland, and his second wife Amy Ellen ( née Porter ; died 1901 ).
McEwen was orphaned at an early age and raised by his grandmother.
McEwen was active in farmer organisations and in the Country Party.
When Menzies ' successor, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead on 19 December 1967, the Governor-General Lord Casey sent for McEwen and he was sworn in as Prime Minister, on the understanding that his commission would continue only so long as it took for the Liberals to elect a new leader.
Approaching 68, McEwen was the oldest person ever to be appointed Prime Minister of Australia, although not the oldest to serve ; Menzies left office two months after his 71st birthday.
But more importantly, McEwen was bitterly opposed to McMahon on political grounds, because McMahon was allied with free trade advocates in the conservative parties and favoured sweeping tariff reforms: a position that was vehemently opposed by McEwen, his Country Party colleagues and their rural constituents.

McEwen and prime
Casey could have commissioned the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, William McMahon, as acting Prime Minister or Caretaker prime minister, but instead he appointed John McEwen, the leader of Liberals ' coalition partner, the Country Party.

McEwen and minister
Harsha was neutral in the eight-man primary that McEwen won but supported McEwen in the general election where he defeated psychologist and minister Ted Strickland, Harsha's opponent in 1976 and 1978, who went on to become Governor of Ohio.
She was a ministerial adviser to South Australian state minister Rory McEwen and then for the former Deputy Premier of South Australia, Kevin Foley.

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* John McEwen ( CP ) Deputy Prime Minister, leader of the Country Party, Minister for Trade and Industry
It would be only after McEwen announced his retirement that MacMahon would be able to successfully challenge Gorton for the Liberal leadership.
Casey also concurred in the view put to him by McEwen that to commission a Liberal temporarily as Prime Minister would give that person an unfair advantage in the forthcoming party room ballot for the permanent leader.
When the conservatives returned to office in 1949 under Robert Menzies after eight years in opposition, McEwen became Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, then Minister for Trade and Industry.
Gorton created the formal title Deputy Prime Minister for McEwen, confirming his status as the second-ranking member of the government.
Jocelyn and McEwen conclude in their book that " Mao and his followers twisted the tale of the Long March for their own ends.
McEwen is the home of the Irish Picnic, a fundraiser for the local St. Patrick Church and School.
* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Air, Minister for Civil Aviation ( CP )
Victor Willing: Inevitable Prohibitions ; Ruth Rosengarten, La Règle du Jeu and John McEwen In Conversation with Paula Rego, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida Paula no Pais das Maravilhas, Paula Rego, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and Serpentine Gallery, LondonLewis Biggs: A context for the exhibitions, Cries and Whispers, British Council
In an extremely close finish Jean-Patrick Nazon won the stage with Cooke just beating McEwen for second and claiming the green jersey by two points.
** Don DeVito, Harold Leventhal, Joe McEwen & Ralph Rinzler ( producers ) for Folkways-A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly performed by various artists
But it was later alleged that Casey appointed McEwen in order to prevent McMahon having an advantage in the Liberal Party's ballot for a new leader, since he shared the view of some Liberals that McMahon would not be a suitable successor.
) If this was his motive for commissioning McEwen rather than McMahon, it suggests that he did take political considerations into account in making his decision.
This is not the first time the show has been produced for American audiences ; in 1993, CBS broadcast a pilot called Wanna Bet ?, hosted by Mark McEwen, which was not picked up as a full series.
When McEwen retired in 1971, Anthony was duly chosen as his successor, becoming Minister for Trade and Industry and Deputy Prime Minister in the governments of John Gorton and William McMahon.
He and Doug Anthony were seen as the most likely successors to the veteran Country Party leader John McEwen, but when McEwen retired in 1971, it was Anthony who was elected party Leader, while Sinclair was elected Deputy Leader, becoming at the same time Minister for Primary Industry.
Cap McEwen, a successful college football coach, was then brought in to replace Friedman, who would continue to play tailback for the Dodgers through half of the upcoming season.

McEwen and days
In 2003, two British researchers, Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen, retraced the route in 384 days, and in their 2006 book " The Long March " estimated the March actually covered about 6, 000 km ( 3, 700 miles ).
In the days when McEwen was content to be a back-bencher, he was criticized on this page for his irrelevance on the important issues.
On April 27, five days before the May 2 primary against McEwen, the Ohio Elections Commission voted 7-0 to issue Schmidt a public reprimand for " false statements " for her claiming to have a second undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati that she was not awarded.

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The governor-general, Lord Casey, commissioned the Leader of the Country Party, John McEwen, to form a government until the Liberal Party elected a new leader.
McEwen, the Executive Board asked the General Assembly to be allowed to continue to function until new leadership had been elected and they agreed.
The Senior British Naval Officer Middle East was Captain Anthony McEwen, Royal Navy until September 1990 ( on ), then Commodore Paul Haddocks September to December 1990.
Following an unsuccessful run in the adjacent Second District in 1993, McEwen was largely absent from the Ohio political scene for a decade, until in 2005 he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Congress in the Second District special election to replace Rob Portman, who beat him in 1993, and finished second to the winner in the general election, Jean Schmidt.
( McEwen did not live in the second district until April 11, when he bought a condominium in Anderson Township ; but DeWine did not live in the district until he bought a home there on April 6.
* Prime Minister – Harold Holt ( until 19 December ), then John McEwen
A series of morning men including Matt Bisbee, Mark McEwen ( who later gained national fame as a CBS network TV weatherman ), and the team of R. J. Harris and Pat Still tried their hand until Jonathan Brandmeier was hired in April 1983.
After graduation, Nelson married Audrey McEwen, a union which lasted until his death ; they had a son, Nyles.

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