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The current town of Ramona was founded in 1886, when a land speculation syndicate, headed by Milton Santee, " organized the Santa Maria Land & Water Company and acquired for a townsite in the Santa Maria Valley and named it Ramona ".
In The Glory Years, by Frank F. Pourade ( 1964, Copley Press, republished by the San Diego Historical Society ), the author indicates that the Santa Maria Land & Water Company syndicate changed the name in 1886.
The Hall was built on two lot donated by Milton Santee, who as noted above headed up the Santa Maria Land & Water Company syndicate.
Around the turn of the 20th century, Houck ’ s various lines were consolidated under the name of St. Louis & Gulf Railroad Co. Later Mr. Houck sold out to a syndicate headed by Newman Erb, who in 1902 sold out to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company.
The syndicate that purchased the shares included J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman & Marshall Field.
The syndicate included, among others, R. H. Lea & Graham I. Francis of Lea & Francis Ltd, and William Riley of the Riley Cycle Company.
Under contract with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Moye Wicks ' syndicate spent $ 300, 000 to dredge " Ballona Harbor ", for shipping to the Orient.
A syndicate was formed, Osborne refined the product and he and Macfarlane went to England to form the British & African Cereal Company, Ltd., which they registered in London in 1932, as a Private Company, with the proprietor shown as Weetabix Limited of Weetabix Mills, Burton Latimer, Kettering.
The network was bought out by a syndicate that included The New Zealand Herald and New Zealand Listener publisher Wilson & Horton and United States radio company Clear Channel Communications.
To the occasional amusement of many politicians and Washington, DC insiders, there was a George Jackson at CIA serving on the National Board of Estimates Staff, and other members of the ' Jackson Committee ' which included the Committee's Chief of Staff, Wayne Jackson, a former office-mate of Bill Jackson's at the law firm Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, and C. D. Jackson from the private sector Time-Life-Fortune magazine syndicate.
In their book, Silencing Dissent ( Allen & Unwin ), Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison accuse Miranda Devine of belonging to a " syndicate of right-wing commentators who receive favour from the Howard Government.
L ' Enfant Plaza Corp. was a syndicate led by former United States Air Force Lieutenant General Elwood R. Quesada, and included Chase Manhattan Bank president David Rockefeller, D. C. businessman David A. Garrett, investment banker André Meyer, and the real estate investment firm of Gerry Brothers & Co. Quesada said that if the Redevelopment Land Agency approved the sale, his company would begin immediate construction of the promenade, the parking garage beneath it, and the plaza using Pei's 10-year-old plans.
The syndicate of investors who owned the Canadian Pacific Railway also owned a large portion of the CL & EC, and when funds were need to further work on the CPR, their shares were sold to the respected locomotive builder Dübs and Company, of Glasgow, Scotland, which eventually gained control effective January 1, 1888.
By the late 80 ` s the South Auckland and West Auckland hip hop scenes were thriving with dozens of young acts, many promoted as part of the Voodoo Rhyme syndicate which featured acts such as the ' Semi MC ` s, Mc Slam & DJ Jam, Total Effect, Sisters Underground, Enemy Productions ( which featured a very young Dei Hamo ), Boy C & the BB3 ( which later became Three the Hard Way ), the Chain Gang and many more.
The show had huge ratings success and Ron & Ron then partnered with their agent Ross Reback to form The Ron & Ron Radio Network to syndicate the programming.
In 1907 the syndicate acquired several railroad companies, including the George's Creek and Cumberland Railroad ( GC & C ), which had built a line west through the Cumberland Narrows, and then south to Lonaconing, Maryland.
In the early 1750s, William Hallett another cabinetmaker of the time, formed a working syndicate with Vile & Cobb.
Known as " Radio's Bad Boy's " Diaz and Bennington teamed with their agent Ross Reback to found The Ron & Ron Radio Network to syndicate their show nationally.
Poor investments forced the Everett-Moore syndicate to sell its shares in the AE & C in mid-1902.
Many of these recordings broke ground and are still considered to be highly innovative, the first reggae / hip-hop combination ( Asher D & Daddy Freddy's ' Ragamuffin Hip Hop ) and Derek B's album would be licensed to US label ' Profile ' ( Run DMC ), Hijack would be signed to Ice-T's Rhyme syndicate label and many more.

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When her government-agent boyfriend is shot down by members of a drug syndicate, Foxy Brown ( Pam Grier ) seeks revenge.

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Most newspaper comic strips are syndicated ; a syndicate hires people to write and draw a strip and then distributes it to many newspapers for a fee.
In, Greenberg and Veeck teamed up for a second time when their syndicate purchased the Chicago White Sox ; Veeck served as team president with Greenberg as vice president and general manager.
( Brewster, Chiswell, and Herringman were members of the six-man syndicate that published the third Ben Jonson folio in 1692 ; Herringman was one of three stationers who issued the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1679.
As with all syndicate ghostwriters, Benson was paid a flat fee of $ 125 to $ 250 for each Stratemeyer-outlined text ; the equivalent of three month's pay for a newspaper reporter at that time.
Vincent Mangano had mysteriously disappeared in 1951 ; by nearly all accounts he'd been murdered by Albert Anastasia, one of the most feared men in the syndicate.
; Wallenquist Organization: A powerful crime syndicate led by Herr Wallenquist, a mysterious crime lord with a broad range of criminal enterprises to his name.
Rupert put an initial investment of £ 270 of his own money into a proposal for a fresh expedition and set about raising more ; despite setbacks, including the Great Fire of London, by 1667 he had formed a private syndicate and leased the Eaglet from the King for the expedition.
Murder, Inc. ( or Murder Incorporated or the Brownsville Boys ; known in syndicate circles as The Combination ) was the name given by the press to organized crime groups in the 1930s through the 1940s that acted as the " enforcement arm " of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia, the early organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere.
The syndicate board overruled Schultz ; they felt that killing law enforcement officers would bring too much heat.
The syndicate desired to have a comic strip featuring the character ; they had asked Bill Watterson to incorporate the character into Calvin and Hobbes, but Watterson refused.
The syndicate and Keung work out the diamonds are in the boy's wheelchair, and the handover is botched after Nancy and Tony are held hostage by the syndicate ; the diamonds are lost after the syndicate uses towtrucks to pull the supermarket apart and the diamonds are spilled as Keung is in the building and knocked over.
Finally, on July 12, 1930, a Brooklyn-based syndicate headed by Bill Dwyer bought the Triangles ; the franchise moved to Brooklyn and was renamed the Brooklyn Dodgers.
They had three children, Alfred, Jr., a pioneering investor, two-time winner of the Bermuda Race and head of the winning America's Cup syndicate in 1977 ; Henry, head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Farnsworth, a physician and professor at Brandeis ( Farnsworth's grandson was Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix ).
Galt infiltrates " the syndicate " in his native Central City to bring down organized crime from within ; to the underworld, he becomes known as the Whisperer.
New York City's leading crime syndicate the Combine send Hex after their greatest enemy, the Batman, by framing him for Stiletta's murder ; the two men fight and nearly kill each other.
" The Auditorium was built for a syndicate of businessmen to house a large civic opera house ; to provide an economic base it was decided to wrap the auditorium with a hotel and office block.
By 1875, the Whiskey Ring had grown into a nationwide criminal syndicate that included whiskey distillers, brokers, and government officials ; making enormous profits from the sale of untaxed whiskey.
androids ; ironically, she soon afterward worked with both Daredevil and Punisher against the European crime syndicate managed by the Brothers Grace.
Rather than capitulate, the manufacturers formed " the Shuttle Club ", a syndicate which paid the costs of any member brought to court ; their strategy of patent piracy and mutual indeminification nearly bankrupted Kay.
Appointed as an Additional Judge of the High Court of Sindh on 18 March, 1978 ; appointed as a Judge of the Sindh High Court on 17 March, 1980 ; nominated by the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court on the syndicate N. E. D.

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