Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe.

Isaac Baker Brown ( 1812 – 1873 ), an English gynaecologist who was president of the Medical Society of London in 1865, believed that the " unnatural irritation " of the clitoris caused epilepsy, hysteria, and mania, and would remove it " whenever he had the opportunity of doing so ," according to an obituary.

Anote Tong, London School of Economics graduate, won on 4 July 2003, and was sworn in as president soon afterward.

The term " Permian " was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil.

Professor Geoffrey Wainwright OBE, FSA, president of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and Professor Timothy Darvill, OBE of Bournemouth University have suggested that Stonehenge was a place of healing – the primeval equivalent of Lourdes.

Kruger was elected president in 1883 and the republic was restored with full independence in 1884 with the London Convention, but not for long.

Seymour Stein, the president of Sire Records – in London on business – heard John Peel play Teenage Kicks on BBC Radio 1 and became interested in the band.

She was also the president or patron of numerous organisations, such as the West Indies Olympic Association, the Girl Guides, Northern Ballet Theatre, and the London Lighthouse ( an AIDS charity that has since merged with the Terrence Higgins Trust ).

: The Games of 1944 had been allocated to London and so it was that in October, 1945, the chairman of the British Olympic Council, Lord Burghley, went to Stockholm and saw the president of the International Olympic Committee to discuss the question of London being chosen for this great event.

He was the FA's first secretary ( 1863 – 66 ) and its second president ( 1867 – 74 ) and drafted the Laws of the Game generally called the " London Rules " at his home in Barnes, London.

On account of his ability as a man of affairs, Smith was in demand for academic administrative and committee work: He was Keeper of the Oxford University Museum ; a Mathematical Examiner for the University of London ; a member of a Royal Commission to review scientific education practice ; a member of the commission to reform University of Oxford governance ; chairman of the committee of scientists overseeing the Meteorological Office ; twice president of the London Mathematical Society ; etc.

In 1887 the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society was formed with Walter Crane as president, holding its first exhibition in the New Gallery, London, in November 1888.

The new board with president Louis Bastien faced a very difficult, if not catastrophal financial situation and decided in early 1936 to leave Geneva for London.

P2 became the target of considerable attention in the wake of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano ( one of Milan's principal banks, owned in part by the Vatican Bank ), and the suspicious 1982 death of its president Roberto Calvi in London, initially ruled a suicide but later prosecuted as a murder.

Herbert Dingle ( 2 August 1890, London – 4 September 1978, Kingston upon Hull ), an English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.

* John F. Kennedy, the future U. S. president worked as a reporter at the Chicago Herald-American after serving in the Navy during World War II in 1945, where he covered the United Nations Conference held in San Francisco and the elections that ousted Winston Churchill in 1946 from London.

Lawrence arrived back in London 30 March 1820 to find that the president of the Royal Academy, Benjamin West, had died.

International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) president Jacques Rogge announced that it would be an Olympic sport at the 2012 Games in London.

She became president of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2006, taking over from Sir John Mills, and is also president of the Questors Theatre, Ealing.

Jack Leonard " J. L ." Warner ( August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978 ), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

* Sculptor Neville Boden ( 1929 – 1996 ), president of The London Group from 1973 to 1977, was born in Alperton

Others blamed pushback from the rock industry: Harold Childs, senior vice president at A & M Records, told the Los Angeles Times that " radio is really desperate for rock product " and " they're all looking for some white rock-n-roll ".

Federal Records president Ralph Bass signed the Famous Flames to his label in February 1956 and had them record the song in Cincinnati's King Studios.

Ken Barnes, then editor and vice president of Radio and Records, chose " Forever Changes " as his No. 3 all-time album.

After failing to catch Warner Bros. Records on three previous reviews, Jeff Blue, now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company in 1999.

In 1998, after Island Records released the compilation Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Waits left the label for Epitaph, whose president, Andy Kaulkin, said the label was "... blown away that Tom would even consider us.

Not long after Amos was ensconced with her new label, she received unsettling news when Polly Anthony resigned as president of Epic Records in 2003.

There was no release, however, and on September 17, 2006, the band ended their tenure with RCA Records and further left their manager Bill Ham, president of Lone Wolf Management.

* March 25 – Jack Kapp, president of the U. S. branch of Decca Records ( b. 1901 )

The tracks were recorded at Blue Horizon House, 165 West 74th Street, home of Sire Records, but Seymour Stein, president of Sire, rejected the demo, stating " there's nothing there.

Jordan was the first artist to be signed by Bruce Lundvall when the latter became president of Blue Note Records in 1985 and, consequently, Magic Touch was the first release ( not reissue ) of the rejuvenated label.

In 1976 a midnight screening of the film was organised by Atlantic Records prior to its release, at which label president Ahmet Ertegün reportedly fell asleep.

One of these efforts, the Digital Audio Recorder Copycode Act of 1987 ( introduced by Sen. Al Gore and Rep. Waxman ), instigated by CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff, involved a technology called CopyCode and required DAT machines to include a chip to detect attempts to copy material recorded with a notch filter, meaning that copyrighted prerecorded music, whether analog or digital, whether on LP, cassette, or DAT, would have distorted sound resulting from the notch filter applied by the publisher at the time of mastering for mass reproduction.

About that time Norman was in negotiations to sign with Elektra Records, but " it fell through when the president of the label was confronted by someone who gave him a copy of the Hollywood Free Paper.

However, in 1999, in response to intensifying charges of " back room politics " in the selection process, the Chamber disclosed the members ' names: Johnny Grant, the longtime chair and representative of the television category ; Earl Lestz, president of Paramount Studio Group ( motion pictures ); Stan Spero, retired manager with broadcast stations KMPC and KABC ( radio ); Kate Nelson, owner of the Palace Theatre ( live performance ); and Mary Lou Dudas, vice president of A & M Records ( recording industry ).

* Marty Munsch ( born 1967 ), professional producer, engineer, musician, photo journalist and president of Punk Rock Records.

After Island Records president Chris Blackwell refused to issue his solo album in 1974, Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the Wailers, citing the unfair treatment they received from Blackwell, to whom Tosh often referred with a derogatory play on Blackwell's surname, ' Whiteworst '.

MCA Records president Al Bergamo listened to the album prior to release and claimed that it was " anti-parent ", although he never cited a specific lyric that led him to that conclusion.

The song was then sent to Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart in hopes of getting an American release.

After releasing their third album, another live performance at the Apollo, the group looked to find fame after Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun offered the group a deal.

* Ralph Carmichael president of Lexicon Music, Light Records ( 1985 )

* September 1 – Ode Records president Lou Adler is kidnapped at his Malibu home and released eight hours later after a $ 25, 000 ransom is paid.

" Berman, known as " Queen Bee ," was a formidable Jewish woman of Austrian and German ancestry, who had been president of Apollo Records since May 1948, attempted to transform Burke into a pop crooner, and is reported to have said, " Let's take this church boy and make him the next Harry Belafonte.