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The gut was then cut and stretched and fastened to stakes to dry and then made into waterproof parkas, bags, and other receptacles ( Turner Ch.
If that business is a subsidiary which has considerably more independence then the title might be known as Chairman and CEO ( for example, Philip I. Kent of Turner Broadcasting System in Time Warner ).
Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.
The main magazine of this group from 1884 – 1957 was The Fraternal Visitor, whose editors included J. J. Bishop and J. J. Hadley ( d. 1912 ), then Thomas Turner, and finally Cyril Cooper ( till reunion in 1957 ).
In 1991 the Cowboys replaced offensive coordinator Dave Shula with Norv Turner ; the Cowboys raced to a 6-5 start then defeated the previously-unbeaten Redskins despite injury to Troy Aikman.
( A concept explored by the artist Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a working boat and then back into a shed, winning him the 2005 Turner Prize.
The Chargers would retake the lead on a field goal by Kaeding then scored again on an 83-yard touchdown run by Michael Turner.
But then, like all of their seasons under Turner, they played their best football at the end of the regular season.
Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball-only facility for the Braves, is named after him.
In 1998, Turner pledged to donate $ 1 billion of his then $ 3 billion to United Nations causes, and created the United Nations Foundation to administer the gift.
It will skip a telecast in 1963, so beginning in 1964, first on CBS, then on NBC, and finally again on CBS, it will nearly always be telecast during the early part of the year until Turner Entertainment buys the rights to the film in the 1990s.
In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKUltra, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records, consisting of about 20, 000 pages, that had survived the 1973 destruction orders because they had been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents.
He is most popularly known for his 1960s work with his then wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner revue.
Phil Alexander ( then editor-in-chief of Mojo magazine ) described Turner as ' the cornerstone of modern day rock ' n ' roll '.
Turner convinced his mother to pay for him to have piano lessons with a teacher ; however he did not take to the formal style of playing, instead spending the money in a pool hall, then learning boogie-woogie from Perkins.
Turner then took Wolf across the state border, re-recorded the tracks without Phillips ' or Chess's knowledge, and sent the results to Modern / RPM.
Turner planned, however, to unload as many supplies as possible on Guadalcanal and Tulagi throughout the night of August 8 and then depart with his ships early on August 9.
In 1898, on the advice of Camille Pissarro, he went to London to study the paintings of J. M. W. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica.
Turner then served as Minister of Finance from 1972 until 1975.
Mulroney had expected Turner to tour Canada during the summer and early autumn, accompanying the Queen and the Pope on their visits, gaining some free publicity, then call the election for later in the autumn.
In 1785, as a result of a " fit of illness " in the family the young Turner was sent to stay with his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the River Thames.
Graves tells that Turner would outline a scene, sit doing nothing for two or three days, then suddenly, " perhaps on the third day, he would exclaim ' there it is ', and seizing his colours work rapidly till he had noted down the peculiar effect he wished to fix in his memory.

Turner and politics
He grew up on the family's pastoral properties and was educated at Glamorgan ( now part of Geelong Grammar School ) and Melbourne Grammar School, before completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics (" Modern Greats ") at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1952, where he became friendly with future Canadian Prime Minister John Turner.
Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.
He retired from politics in 1984, and John Turner succeeded him as Prime Minister.
Trudeau retired from politics on June 30, 1984 and was succeeded by John Turner.
After a hiatus from politics from 1975 to 1984, Turner returned and successfully contested the Liberal leadership.
Turner stayed on as Liberal leader and headed the Official Opposition for the next six years, leading his party to a modest recovery in the 1988 campaign, resigning from politics in 1990.
In his memoirs, Trudeau wrote that Turner said he resigned as Finance Minister in 1975 because he was tired of politics, after 13 years in Ottawa, and wanted to move on to a better-paying job as a lawyer in Toronto, to better support his family and to be with them more, as his children were growing up.
Her policy of non-interference in politics led to Turner making a visit to London to advise the Queen of a pending election call and to ask her to postpone her trip.
Upon assuming office, Turner, who had been out of politics for nine years while he earned a lucrative salary as a Toronto lawyer, showed that his political instincts had diminished.
Women in Breathitt county have been more active in politics in recent memory with the late superintendent Marie R. Turner being a democratic activist.
The most influential Turner student of Populism was John D. Hicks, who emphasized economic pragmatism over ideals, presenting Populism as interest group politics, with have-nots demanding their fair share of America's wealth which was being leeched off by nonproductive speculators.
While Pierre Trudeau retired from politics in 1984, he directly handed power over to John Turner after the leadership contest.
Recent Presidents and Officers have continued to move into the law, academia, the media and politics, including British International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, author and journalist Robert Harris, chairman of the Financial Services Authority Adair Turner, BBC sports broadcaster Clare Balding and Gavin Barwell as Head of Operations at Conservative Central Office.
Turner had been out of politics since 1975.
Trudeau retired from politics in 1984 and was succeeded as Prime Minister and party leader by John Turner.
Before entering a career in politics, Turner founded and owned weekly newspapers in Ontario, worked as an editor for The Globe and Mail, Metroland Publishing and Thomson Newspapers, and helped launch Maclean's as a newsweekly magazine.
Turner returned to politics with his election as a Conservative MP for Halton, which included most of the territory he had represented in his previous term, in the 2006 general election.
It is an account of his experiences within and without the caucus of the Conservative Party, and the clash between backroom-style politics and the open blogging Turner pioneered as a web-based MP.
The historian Henry A. Turner proposes that many of the Program ’ s policies for economic reform, pro-labour legislation, and popular democratic politics, contradicted Adolf Hitler ’ s basis of his dictatorial ambition.
Alderson bitterly wrote, " I am sorry to say that I do not consider Turner really fit to command a Division and his name was not put forward by Sir John French, but Canadian politics have been too strong for all of us and so he has got it.
Living in Belfast exposed Turner to the sectarianism of the city and he experienced the initial years of the Troubles and Northern Ireland politics have dominated his work to this day.
Before entering state politics, Senator Turner served on the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1983 to 1986, where she served as Freeholder Vice President.

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