His lawyers ' primary arguments before US District Magistrate Robert P. DeGiacomo stated that his alleged acts of lawbreaking in Liberia were political rather than criminal in nature and that the extradition treaty between the two republics had lapsed ; in response, Assistant United States Attorney Richard G. Stearns argued that Liberia wished to charge Taylor with theft in office, rather than with political crimes, and that any international political decisions that could hold up the trial should only be made by the US State Department.

The butlers were amused because when the Stearns were there, the President would say grace at breakfast.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

Walker and Stearns were arrested in Honolulu in 1974 after returning from Palmyra aboard the Sea Wind, a yacht stolen from the Grahams.

Because no bodies were found at the time, Walker and Stearns were convicted only for the yacht theft in August 1975.

Walker and Stearns were arrested in Arizona for murder.

The seven largest Wall Street firms in the 2000s ( decade ) were Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup Incorporated, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.

The first city elections were held on April 19, 1869 at which the following officials were elected: George F. Stearns, Mayor ; Charlie Gay, Recorder ; W. Irving Latimer, Treasurer ; and William Van Loo, Supervisor.

That land and other Rancho properties were finally sold to the American Abel Stearns, then acquired by the Robinson Trust, a group of investors, which eventually parlayed their holdings into a vast land speculation business.

A large portion of the Pickman land, Huckins Farm, was sold to a developer for condominium development in 1987, and other parcels including the large Pickman house ( Stearns Farm ) were sold to private parties.

While at the school, Stearns wrote and published a number of education-related works, including Dramatic Dialogues for Use in Schools ( 1798 ), a collection of 30 original plays that were performed by the students.

Among the companies using Knight's technology were Avions Voisin, Daimler ( 1909 – 1930s ) including their V12 Double Six, Panhard ( 1911 – 39 ), Mercedes ( 1909 – 24 ), Willys ( as the Willys-Knight, plus the associated Falcon-Knight ), Stearns, Mors, Peugeot, and Belgium's Minerva company that was forced to stop its sleeve-valve line of engines as a result of the limitations imposed on them by the winners of WWII, some thirty companies in all.

Then all five major “ free standing ” investment banks ( i. e., those not part of a bank holding company ) entered bankruptcy proceedings ( Lehman Brothers ), were acquired by bank holding companies ( Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase and Merrill Lynch by Bank of America ), or became bank holding companies by converting their industrial loan companies (“ nonbank banks ”) into a national ( Morgan Stanley ) or state chartered Federal Reserve member bank ( Goldman Sachs ).

Carl Felsenfeld and David L. Glass wrote that “ he public — which for this purpose includes most of the members of Congress ” does not understand that the investment banks and other “ shadow banking ” firms that experienced “ runs ” precipitating the financial crisis ( i. e., AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch ) never became “ financial holding companies ” under the GLBA and, therefore, never exercised any new powers available through Glass-Steagall “ repeal .” They joined Jonathan R. Macey and Peter J. Wallison in noting many GLBA critics do not understand that Glass-Steagall ’ s restrictions on banks ( i. e., Sections 16 and 21 ) remained in effect and that only the affiliation provisions in Sections 20 and 32 were repealed by the GLBA.

Taylor, Munger and sponsor, Harry Sager had arrived in the city to enter into negotiations with the Olive Wheel Company, however, they were able to work out a more lucrative contract with Stearns who agreed to build Taylor's bicycles using the Sager gear chainless mechanism designed by Harry Sager.

Here he joined Daniel Marshall and wife Martha ( Stearns ' sister ), who were already active in a Baptist church there.

They were Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Gridley Howe, Theodore Parker, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Gerrit Smith, and George Luther Stearns.

Largely through the efforts of a charismatic preacher from New England named Shubal Stearns and paralleled by the New Side Presbyterians ( who were eventually reunited on their own terms with the Old Side ), they carried the Great Awakening into the southern colonies, igniting a series of the revivals that lasted well into the 19th century.

The theorem was also surprising to many mathematicians and computer scientists since it had previously been widely believed that the semigroup / monoid axioms were too weak to admit a structure theorem of any strength, and prior work ( Hartmanis & Stearns ) was only able to show much more rigid and less general decomposition results for finite automata.

However, in The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, scholar Cyrus Stearns details that the writings of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen ( 1292 – 1361 ) and even those of Sakya proponents of zhentong were sealed and banned from publication and study, and that the Jonang monks and nuns forcibly were converted to the Gelug lineage.

" The most notable aberration, however, is Stearns Hall, which has been described as " Barbie meets Escher " for its angular, post-modern style and its shrunken scale ( it is supposedly built at 90 % of scale, an idea supported by the feeling of claustrophobia often encountered there ).

The mysterious deaths, murder conviction of Duane (“ Buck ”) Walker ( aka Wesley G. Walker ) and acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, made headlines nationwide and led to a best-selling account written by Stearns's defense attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, and Bruce B. Henderson in the true crime book And the Sea Will Tell.

* The historical novel " A victor of Salamis ; a tale of the days of Xerxes, Leonidas and Themistocles " by William Stearns Davis follows the life, until death, of Themistocles.

In 2008, Lehman filed for bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was bought up by JP Morgan Chase with blessing by the U. S. government, and Merrill Lynch was bought up by Bank of America.

* The Machinery Building, designed by Robert Swain Peabody of Peabody and Stearns

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Paul Derby, manager of the Benchmark Lab, arranged to send two van-loads of equipment to Hollywood for the shoot, accompanied by Jerry Stearns of the Benchmark Lab who watched over this equipment.

Underwritten by Bear Stearns on November 13, 1998, the IPO was priced at $ 9 per share.

From 1903 throughout most of the 20th century, the territory of McCreary County was dominated and controlled by Stearns company interests.

It was founded by Justus Smith Stearns.

Section on Bedford in Volume 2 page 241 by Josiah A. Stearns.

Stearns ' published works can be accessed at Early American Imprints, a microform and digital collection produced by the American Antiquarian Society.

A summary article that looks at Stearns as a producer of children's drama is The Dramatic Dialogues of Charles Stearns: An Appreciation by Jonathan Levy, in Spotlight on the Child: Studies in the History of American Children ’ s Theatre, ed.

The first petition to incorporate, signed by 33 male residents of the proposed area of incorporation, was presented to the Stearns county Board of Commissioners on November 30, 1888.

Stephens City was saved from intentional burning in 1864 by Union Major Joseph K. Stearns.

Investment banks Bear Stearns ( founded in 1923 ) and Lehman Brothers ( over 100 years old ) collapsed ; Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America, which remained in trouble, as did Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

The highly generous pay packages include $ 172 million for Merril Lynch & Co. CEO Stanley O ' Neal from 2003 to 2007, before it was bought by Bank of America in 2008, and $ 161 million for Bear Stearns Co .' s James Cayne before the bank collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in June of 2008.

Also on Palmyra were Buck Walker ( aka Wesley G. Walker ) and Stephanie Stearns ( referred to as " Jennifer Jenkins " in the book ), who had sailed there together from Hawaii on Stearns ' sailing vessel Iola, a deteriorating, patched-together wooden sloop that lacked a reliable auxiliary engine.

It was first marketed by Phillips, Scott & Turner, which was acquired by Frederick Stearns & Co, a subsidiary of Sterling Drug Inc.

Reform's Advisory Board includes Jeremy Browne MP, the Rt Hon Frank Field MP, Sir Christopher Gent ( former CEO of Vodafone ), Oliver Pawle ( vice chairman of UBS Investment Bank ), Sir Steve Robson ( former second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury ), Derek Scott ( economic consultant to KPMG and deputy chairman of Open Europe ), and Jeremy Sillem ( formerly chairman of Bear Stearns International ).

The town was named for Maud Stearns, a sister to the wives of two men who owned the first general store.

Earl Kiser, who was nicknamed the " Little Dayton Demon ," raced for the Stearns Yellow Fellow team during the same period as Taylor.

Juris Hartmanis ( born July 5, 1928 in Riga, Latvia ) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award " in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory ".

In 2007, the investment banking firms of Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley each had two presidents ( Warren Spector and Alan Schwartz at Bear, Robert Scully and Zoe Cruz at Morgan ) reporting to one CEO ( who was also chairman of the board ); each president was essentially a co-COO ( despite the lack of title ) overseeing half of the firm's business divisions.

The first non-Native American to stand on the shore of Crater Lake was Sergeant Orsen Stearns, who climbed down into the caldera.

Congressman Stearns submitted an amendment that was adopted without opposition to H. R .# 847, the James Zadroga 9 / 11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, that would screen thousands of non-first responders and First Responders who submit claims for chronic medical conditions against a Department of Homeland Security terrorist watch list ( original committee markup referenced ).

While working at Bear Stearns, Weill was a neighbor of Arthur L. Carter who was working at Lehman Brothers.

It was presented by General Burnside to Amherst College in honor of Lieutenant Frazar Stearns, son of the president of Amherst College and adjutant of the 21st Massachusetts, who was killed in the battle.

* James Harold Charles Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton ( born 19 August 1969 ), who was married on 7 May 2004 at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, to Tanya Marie Nation ( b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, 30 April 1971 ), eldest daughter of Douglas Percy Codrington Nation ( Rawalpindi, 12 February 1942 – New York, 2 September 2001 ), senior managing director of Bear Stearns International Ltd. ( 1942 – 2001 ) and his wife ( New York, 10 April 1970, divorced 1989 ) Barbara " Bobbie " Anne Brookes ( 1940 ).

The deal was then changed to where the NY FED would make a $ 30 billion loan to J. P. Morgan ( collaterallised not by any J. P. Morgan assets but collaterallised by Bear Stearns Assets ), who would buy Bear Stearns for 2 dollars per share.

Later, Whiting and Frank Stearns were the first two " Coolidge Men " who advocated their friend as a serious Presidential candidate.

Richard H. Stearns had other sons, Richard H. Stearns, Jr. ( b. April 25, 1862 ) who worked in his father's dry goods firm, Frederick R. Stearns, and the Reverend William Foster Stearns ( b. April 18, 1859 ) who was a clergyman and graduate of Amherst College class of 1882.