He was a political maverick, a reformer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it through or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

The first was the commune program, which will ensure agricultural poverty for years.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

The authority for the program was renewed several times until the vocational rehabilitation program was made permanent as Title 5, of the Social Security Act in 1935.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

The first program was sponsored by Abraham & Strauss, Hempstead, New York, under the direction of Special Events director Jennings Dennis.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

The sampling program was instituted before the principles of probability sampling were widely recognized in population studies.

We will deal first with the program in the Congo though this was put into operation later than the other.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

The total cost of the five-year program was $297 million.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

In that year, the people of Oregon passed two laws under their newly instituted program of Citizens ' Initiatives limiting fishing on the Columbia and other rivers.

J. Irwin Miller, 2nd CEO and a nephew of a Co-Founder of Cummins Inc., the Columbus-headquartered diesel engine manufacturer, instituted a program in which the Cummins company paid the architects ' fee, provided the client selected a firm from a list compiled by Miller.

As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry's first crew resource management program.

* Ground delay program, a traffic flow initiative that is instituted by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States Air Space System

Lavoisier instituted a crash program to increase saltpeter production, revised ( and later eliminated ) the droit de fouille, researched best refining and powder manufacturing methods, instituted management and record-keeping, and established pricing that encouraged private investment in works.

Following in the steps of the Soviet Union, Zambia instituted a program of national development, under the direction of the National Commission for Development Planning, which instituted a " Transitional Development Plan " and the " First National Development Plan ".

In 1883, he visited England for the first time, and studied the program of physical education instituted by Thomas Arnold at the Rugby School.

Batlle had two terms ( 1903 – 07 and 1911 – 15 ) during which, and taking advantage of the nation's stability and growing economic prosperity, he instituted major reforms such as a welfare program, government participation in many facets of the economy, and a plural executive.

In 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a " euthanasia decree " ( later known as Action T4 ), which instituted a forced eugenics program extending the existing laws enabling sterilisation for those deemed genetically or socially unfit.

He also created a Chinese-style government and instituted a land-reform program.

In 1949 Curtis LeMay was placed in command of the Strategic Air Command and instituted a program to update the bomber fleet to one that was all-jet.

Gierek promised economic reform and instituted a program to modernize industry and increase the availability of consumer goods, doing so mostly through foreign loans.

In the United States, a US Department of Agriculture program ( see below ) to encourage agricultural production and human consumption of peanuts was instituted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is part of a program instituted in 2010 to supply disadvantaged children with school uniforms.

He said he revitalized the nuclear program, and instituted a rate freeze that continued for ten years.

In office, Kennett immediately instituted a budget-cutting and privatisation program, in an effort to improve the State's economy.

However, the Viet Minh were not in a position to do this, having instituted a party purge of ' disloyal ' Communists as well as a highly disruptive land reform program in the two years since the Geneva agreement.

It had been filed in California by both current and former Morgan Stanley employees for unfair labor practices instituted to those in the financial advisor training program.

In 1969, the initial Los Angeles paramedic training program was instituted in conjunction with Harbor General Hospital under the medical direction of Michael Criley, MD and James Lewis, MD.

Although he instituted an art return program, and implemented a policy which gave creators royalties when their books passed certain sales benchmarks or when characters they worked on were licensed as toys, Shooter occasionally found himself in well-publicized conflicts with some writers and artists.

According to Hua-yu Li, writing in Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953 in 1953, Mao, misled by glowing reports in History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Bolshevik ): Short Course, authorized by Stalin of social and economic progress in the Soviet Union, abandoned the liberal economic programs of " New Democracy " and instituted the " general line for socialist transition ", a program to build socialism based on Soviet models.

James Orsen " Jim " Bakker ( pronounced " Baker "; born January 2, 1940 ) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, convicted felon, and a former host ( with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker ) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.

It was planned to fit to the Varga RMI-1 X / H twin-engined reconnaissance bomber in 1940, but the program was cancelled.

The National Office began a program of integrating local councils in 1940, which was largely complete in 1948.

The National Office began a program of integrating local councils in 1940, which was largely complete in 1948.

The National Council began a program of integrating local councils in 1940, a process which lasted until 1974.

The base had its beginning in 1940 when a group of concerned Valdosta and Lowndes County citizens began searching for a way to assist the expanding defense program.

Between 1940 and the 1960s, the program eventually grew to be so successful that a summer camp was requested.

Belzec extermination camp, the model for two others in the Aktion Reinhard murder program, started as a labor camp in April 1940, in the course of the Burggraben-project attached to the Lublin reservation in the same area: the reservation was to serve as a pool for forced labour exploited by various small camps like Belzec, to erect defensive works along the German Nazi-Soviet demarcation line such as a long anti-tank ditch.

The two commanders of the camp, Kriminalpolizei officers SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth and SS-Hauptsturmführer Gottlieb Hering, had been — in common with almost all of their staff — involved in the Nazi euthanasia Action T4 program since 1940.

At the conclusion of the war, over 167, 000 students, including over 50, 000 pilots, trained in Canada under the program from May 1940 to March 1945.

* May – Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, a CBS Radio Sunday evening program on the air since 1940 ( except for a hiatus from 1942 – 45 ), ends its run.

By 1940, armed with a pilot certificate and a degree in Business Administration, Foss hitchhiked to Minneapolis to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserves, in order to join the Naval Aviation Cadet program to become a Naval Aviator.

In 1940, Lomax and his close friend Nicholas Ray went on to write and produce a fifteen-minute program, Back Where I Come From, which aired three nights a week on CBS and featured folk tales, proverbs, prose, and sermons, as well as songs, organized thematically.

The classic 1940 – 44 version of the program, hosted by radio's Fred Allen, was followed by a radio series on ABC ( the former NBC Blue ) in the spring of 1948.

In 1940, the show became a star vehicle for, with the show re-titled Texaco Star Theatre with Fred Allen and the program airing on October 2, 1940.

In late 1940, during World War II before the US entered the war, and just after earning his doctorate, Drew was recruited by John Scudder to help set up and administer an early prototype program for blood storage and preservation.

From 1940 onward, Kurchatov worked and contributed advancing the nuclear weapons program, and later advocated for the peaceful development of nuclear technology.

The 1943 development was built by the Hochtief company as part of an extensive program of subterranean construction in Berlin begun in 1940.

The program was halted in 1940, restarted in early 1944 and then terminated again when the factories were overrun by the Allies.

The popular Your Hit Parade program ranked the song no higher than ninth place, for one week only ( 1940 ).

From 1940 to 1944, he taught in the program, including music, at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.

After being sworn in on October 14, 1940, Ball stunned his fellow conservatives in his first speech on the Senate floor, calling for the United States to aid Britain as " a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent ," Though he was an opponent of the New Deal, he supported FDR's foreign policy, voting in favor of the lend-lease program on March 8, 1941 in spite of letters from his constituents that ran " 25 to 1 against the bill ".

In 1940 he presented a request to US President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and was granted approval to organize a youth training program for the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ).