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In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching.
Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.
This book, which established his reputation, was first translated into English by William Montgomery and published in 1910 as The Quest of the Historical Jesus.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.
Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Mark's, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of the noted Indian administrator, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.
Montgomery attended St Paul's School and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was almost expelled for rowdiness and violence.
Montgomery was hit once more though, in the knee.
Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:
In May 1923, Montgomery was posted to the Territorial 49th Division.
On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.
During this time, Montgomery faced serious trouble from his military superiors and the clergy for his frank attitude regarding the sexual health of his soldiers, but was defended from dismissal by his superior Alan Brooke, commander of II Corps.
On his return Montgomery antagonised the War Office with trenchant criticisms of the command of the BEF and was briefly relegated to divisional command.
In December 1941 Montgomery was given command of South-Eastern Command overseeing the defence of Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.
Montgomery was determined that the Army, Navy and Air Forces should fight their battles in a unified, focused manner according to a detailed plan.
Montgomery was criticised for not counter-attacking the retreating forces immediately, but he felt strongly that his methodical build-up of British forces was not yet ready.
Montgomery prepared meticulously for the new offensive after convincing Churchill that the time was not being wasted.

Montgomery and born
Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.
Montgomery was born and raised in Ireland.
Montgomery was born in Swords, Ireland.
Author and artist Zelda Sayre was born in Montgomery.
* James Montgomery, ( 1814 – 1871 ), born in Ashtabula County, colonel in the American Civil War, raided several towns in Missouri and the American South.
* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was born in Harleyford Street in 1887.
* Lynn Doyle, the pseudonym of the humorist & playwright Leslie Alexander Montgomery, was born in Downpatrick on 5 October 1873 ( died 18 August 1961 ).
* John R .( Jackie ) Montgomery, M. D .,( born in Burnsville MS., grew up in Town Creek ), Physican / Scientist for " The Boy In The Bubble ", a world famous patient at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
* Nancy Green-( November 17, 1834-September 23, 1923 ) was born a slave in Montgomery County.
* Ben Bernanke ( born 1953 ), Chairman of the Federal Reserve, former resident and member of the Montgomery Township Board of Education.
The youngest of ten children ( of whom she and four others, all girls, survived ) of a high-ranking Taiwan ( ROC ) diplomat, she was born and raised in Washington, D. C. She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and went on to receive a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969.
* Bob Montgomery ( songwriter ) ( born 1937 ), American singer / songwriter and music producer / publisher
* Robert Montgomery ( artist ) ( born 1972 ), British artist and poet
* Bob Montgomery ( baseball ) ( born 1944 ), American catcher and color commentator
* Robert Montgomery ( boxer ) ( born 1983 ), Canadian super heavyweight boxer who represented Canada at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Chris Dickerson ( born Henri Christophe Dickerson on August 25, 1939 in Montgomery, Alabama ), is a former American bodybuilder.
Winfield Scott Hancock and his identical twin brother Hilary Baker Hancock were born on February 14, 1824, in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, a hamlet just northwest of Philadelphia in present-day Montgomery Township.
Montgomery was born in the town of Kentwood, Louisiana, a sawmill town near the Mississippi Border, across Lake Pontchartrain from the city of New Orleans, where he spent much of his childhood.
Jay Montgomery Garner ( born April 15, 1938 ) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the ambassador's successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority ( CPA ).
* Eleanor Montgomery ( born 1946 ), American high jumper
* John Warwick Montgomery ( born 1931 )-Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, writer, lecturer, and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics

Montgomery and Kennington
The original Python Lee Jackson was formed in December 1965, in Sydney by two British men – singer Frank Kennington and guitarist Mick Liber ( born in Peebles, Scotland on 1 March 1944 ) – after meeting drummer David Montgomery ( born September 1945 in Melbourne ).
In early 1966 Kennington deported back to the UK, and former Missing Links singer Bob Brady filled in for several months before Liber and Montgomery struck on the idea of putting a new version together.

Montgomery and London
In 1901, Bishop Montgomery became secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the family returned to London.
Montgomery served at the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917 before finishing the war as General Staff Officer 1 and effectively chief of staff of the 47th ( 2nd London ) Division, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel.
Montgomery replied that he had just received a signal from London that something needed to be done to neutralise the V-2 launch sites around the Hague ( which were bombarding London ) and that the plan must therefore proceed.
In vain, Montgomery complained about this to the Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff in London, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye.
Montgomery drew much of her inspiration for Avonlea from her childhood experiences in the late 19th century farming communities surrounding Cavendish, New Glasgow, New London, Hunter River, and Park Corner.
The play co-starred Flora Montgomery and after premiering at the Soho Theatre in London was described by The Daily Telegraph as " one of the most powerful and provocative new American plays to have opened since David Mamet's Oleanna.
The song The Right Profile by English Punk band The Clash, off their seminal album London Calling is about the later life of Montgomery Clift, which references his car crash and drug abuse, as well as the movies A Place in the Sun, Red River, From Here to Eternity and The Misfits.
* The Story of Little Brother Montgomery by Karl Gert zur Heide, published by Studio Vista, London, in 1970, provides an overview of his life and early career.
He moved to England in 1962 and became house bassist at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, playing with many greats including the guitarist Wes Montgomery and Sonny Stitt.
* H. Montgomery Hyde: Mr. and Mrs. Beeton, London: George S. Harrap & Co, 1951.
In the meantime, the London buildings became the headquarters of XXI Army Group under the command of General, later Field-Marshal, Bernard Montgomery, himself an Old Pauline.
During a meeting in November 1945 with Field Marshals Brooke and Montgomery, Gort collapsed and was flown to London where the diagnosis was cancer.
* Montgomery, Viscount, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery, London: Collins ( 1958 ).
* Tracks 14 and 15 recorded by Craig Montgomery at the London Astoria, December 3, 1989.
A Grant Command variant used by Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | General Montgomery housed at the Imperial War Museum in London
< center > SHAEF commanders at a conference in London </ center > Left to right: Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith
Fulcrum Press was founded in London in the mid-1960s by medical student Stuart Montgomery ( born 1938, in Rhodesia ) and his wife Deidre.
Hewett made his film debut in the 1951 crime drama Pool of London, and later appeared in roles on Robert Montgomery Presents and DuPont Show of the Month.
Knighton first prospered as a centre of the wool trade in the 15th century and was later an important point on the two drover routes from Montgomery to Hereford, and from London to Aberystwyth.

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