Although he briefly left that position to become a law partner to Judge Walter T. Stanton, he returned to the political post during the administration of Mayor William Dever.

After four years away from City Hall, Thompson cast his hat in the ring for the 1927 mayoral campaign, capitalizing on public displeasure with the zealous enforcement of the Prohibition laws under Dever.

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority was created in 1952 by a special act of the Massachusetts General Court ( legislature ) upon the recommendation of Governor Dever and his Commissioner of Public Works, William F. Callahan.

On July 5, 1952, Furcolo was appointed by Governor Paul A. Dever to be the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to replace John E. Hurley, who had resigned to accept a position as clerk of the Boston Municipal Court.

* The Boston Globe Dever Picks Furcolo As Treasurer, The Boston Globe, ( July 5, 1952 ).

" Dever was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1928, and served from 1929 to 1935, when he was elected the youngest attorney general in the history of Massachusetts at age 31.

Dever was born in Woburn, Massachusetts and entered his family's leather tanning business when he was fifteen.

* 1903 – Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1958 )

Paul Andrew Dever ( January 15, 1903April 11, 1958 ) was a Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts.

Just several years earlier his cousin from Woburn, Massachusetts, William E. Dever had gained national prominence as the " Mayor who cleaned up Chicago.

Governor Dever died in 1958 and was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in the West Roxbury section of the city of Boston, Massachusetts.

* Paul A. Dever, JD, Governor of Massachusetts

An inscription was found on the site by Aharoni mentioning a ' House of Yahweh ', which William G. Dever suggests may have referred to the temple at Arad or the temple at Jerusalem.

When Mayor Dever heard of the banquet he summoned Hughes for an explanation of why he had been dishonouring the police department by consorting with these felons and fixers.

Many see Calvinism as growing in acceptance, and some prominent Reformed Baptists, such as Albert Mohler and Mark Dever, have been pushing for the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a more Calvinistic orientation.

William Dever agrees with the Canaanite origin of the Israelites but allows for the possibility of some immigrants from Egypt among the early hilltop settlers, leaving open the possibility of a Moses-like figure in Transjordan ca 1250-1200.

Other archaeologists in Israel, including Amnon Ben-Tor, Amihai Mazar, William Dever and Lawrence Stager, reject this theory, claiming that it is contradicted by scientific understandings of strata formulation and the general development of the region, and that the theory relies overmuch on pottery seriation, a technique for dating sites using ceramic remains, which is a relative dating technique rather than a reliable technique such as carbon dating.

William G. Dever states " that we now have direct Bronze and Iron Age parallels for every feature of the ' Solomonic temple ' as described in the Hebrew Bible ".

He declined to run for reelection in 1923 and he was succeeded to the office by William Emmett Dever.

* William G. Dever ( 1933 -): American biblical archaeologist, known for his contributions to the understanding of early Israel.

With the commencement of the 2007-2008 school year, the new performing arts center, the Bulger Center ( formerly Dever Auditorium ), will be available for use by BC High's numerous performing groups, as well as for small school functions.

After his death, the Myles Standish State School for the Mentally Retarded was renamed the Paul A. Dever State School.

Dever ran for re-election in 1927 against " Big Bill " Thompson, who defeated him by 83, 000 votes.

This move towards the Reformed ( or Calvinist ) wing of the church is illustrated by Sovereign Grace's partnerships with speakers such as John MacArthur, Mark Dever, and John Piper, who speak at the Together for the Gospel Conferences.

Gary Chalk is an illustrator and model-maker who is perhaps best known for his contributions to the Lone Wolf series of gamebooks written by Joe Dever.

There is reportedly archaeological evidence that the origins of Israel were in fact largely Canaanite, leaving, in the words of archaeologist William Dever, " no room for an Exodus from Egypt or a 40-year pilgrimage through the Sinai wilderness.

Recent investigations in Chengue, Parque Tairona by the Colombian archaeologist Alejandro Dever show significant variations in the ceramic that allow for a chronological division of sequence into at least five phases.

" William Dever sees this " Israel " in the central highlands as a cultural and probably political entity, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state.

" William Dever sees this " Israel " in the central highlands as a cultural and probably political entity, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state.

William G. Dever contrasts " official religion / state religion / book religion " of the elite with “ folk religion ” of the masses.

In discussing the role of his discipline in interpreting the biblical record, Dever has pointed to multiple histories within the Bible, including the history of theology ( the relationship between God and believers ), political history ( usually the account of " Great Men "), narrative history ( the chronology of events ), intellectual history ( ideas and their development, context and evolution ), socio-cultural history ( institutions, including their social underpinnings in family, clan, tribe and social class and the state ), cultural history ( overall cultural evolution, demography, socio-economic and political structure and ethnicity ), technological history ( the techniques by which humans adapt to, exploit and make use of the resources of their environment ), natural history ( how humans discover and adapt to the ecological facts of their natural environment ), and material history ( artefacts as correlates of changes in human behaviour ).

Governor Dever increased state aid to schools and issued an executive order to extend higher education benefits to Korean War veterans.

Dever had many of his supporters on the state payroll, creating a strong political machine.

Dever gave in to pressure groups, calling a special session of the legislature that repealed the bill.

The lead designer was Joe Dever.

* Dever, William G. ( 1978 ), " Kathleen Kenyon ( 1906-1978 ): A Tribute ", BASOR 232 ( 1978 ), pp. 3 – 4.

These views are criticized by William G. Dever, Helga Weippert, André Lemaire and Amnon Ben-Tor.

258 – 79 in Up to the Gates of Ekron: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin, S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds.

Barnett, who came into office with no previous experience in public administration, has surrounded himself with confusion which not only keeps his foes guessing but his friends as well.

In 1533, three rectors of Aegina were punished for their acts of injustice and we have a graphic account of the reception given by the Aeginetans to the captain of Nauplia, who came to hold an enquiry into the administration of these delinquents.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

" At the mercy of Congress, cabinets came and went frequently, although there was more stability and continuity in public administration than some historians have suggested.

In 1984 financial matters came to a head and the club went into administration, to be reformed as Charlton Athletic ( 1984 ) Ltd.

The last historical possibility is that Proto-Corsican came from the Tuscan dialect of Pisa ; its period of Corsican administration, however, was relatively short.

The renamed Belgian Congo came under the administration of the Belgian parliament, which lasted until independence was granted in 1960.

From it came the master general who remained longest at the head of the administration during the 19th century, Père Vincent Jandel ( 1850 – 1872 ).

Organizations that the administration could not eliminate, such as the education system, came under its direct control.

Most of the revenue raised by the Mandate came from the Jewish minority but was spent on funding the British administration.

In the wake of the Irish financial crisis, the party came under pressure to withdraw its support for the administration.

As before independence, the sedentary lifestyle of these groups made them more receptive to and useful in state formation, and they quickly came to dominate state administration, even if the Moorish groups built up by the French remained in charge of the political process.

Akkadian, came to be the dominant language during the Akkadian Empire and the Assyrian empires, but Sumerian was retained for administration, religious, literary, and scientific purposes.

The city slowly came under the control of the Karzai administration after 2002, which is led by President Hamid Karzai.

His victory came with much support from the younger generation and civic groups who had hopes of a participatory democracy, and Roh's administration consequently launched with the motto of " participation government ".

After World War II, the Saarland came under French occupation and administration again, as the Saar Protectorate.

With the exception of Palestine's Gaza Strip, which came under the administration of the All-Palestine Government, the western frontier of the former Mandate of Palestine became the Egyptian-Israeli frontier under the 1949 Armistice Agreement.

In 1958, the Gaza Strip came under direct Egyptian military administration, though it was governed separately from Sinai, and was never annexed by Egypt.

While the Eisenhower administration approved of the strategy in general, LeMay continued to increase SAC ’ s independence by refusing to submit SAC war plans for review, believing that operational plans should be closely guarded, a view the Joint Chiefs of Staff eventually came to accept.

According to Cassius Dio, however, after 197 Severus fell heavily under the influence of his Praetorian Prefect, Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who came to have almost total control of most branches of the imperial administration.

On October 27, 1911, however, Roosevelt and Taft's deteriorating friendship officially came to an end when Taft's administration filed an antitrust suit against US Steel, which Roosevelt labeled as a " good trust ".

In October 2009, the Conservative Party came under pressure from the US administration concerning its alliances in the European Parliament.

The Ethiopian Empire and British Somaliland were then re-established, while Italian Somaliland and Eritrea both came under British administration.

When the last shabdrung died in 1903 and a reincarnation had not appeared by 1906, civil administration came under the control of Ugyen Wangchuck.

The conflict rapidly spread and came to involve several Balkan states and Great Powers, which eventually forced the Ottomans to cede administration of the country to Austria-Hungary through the Treaty of Berlin in 1878.