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Washington Mutual, Inc. (), abbreviated to WaMu, was a savings bank holding company and the former owner of Washington Mutual Bank, which was the United States ' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008.
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* 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D. C ..
* 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777. 68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
* January 19 – The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in Washington, D. C.
" In 1984, Continental became the largest U. S. bank to fail in American history until the seizure of Washington Mutual in 2008.
The subsequent bankruptcy of WorldCom, which quickly surpassed Enron as the then biggest bankruptcy in history ( the record is now held by Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual ) led to a domino effect of accounting and like corporate scandals that continue to tarnish American business practices.
On July 21, 2002, WorldCom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history at the time ( since overtaken by the collapses of both Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual in a span of eleven days in September 2008 ).
It's shown that he has investment filings with Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Washington Mutual even though they are bankrupt companies, but he then says that they're not really his filings.
In 2007, the theater was renamed the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, due to a naming rights deal with Washington Mutual.
The land was sold by Seattle-based Washington Mutual to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in late 2003 for $ 150 million.
During the 1990s, several major home lenders, such as Countrywide and Washington Mutual, began opening service facilities in Northridge.
" Once the protests died down, Kishi went to Washington, and in January 1960 returned to Japan with a new and unpopular Treaty of Mutual Cooperation.
However, during that year, the largest bank failure in terms of dollar value occurred on September 26, 2008, when Washington Mutual experienced a 10-day bank run on its deposits.
In November 1937, conservative commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., heard five nights weekly from Mutual affiliate WOL, became the first national news personality to broadcast out of Washington, D. C .; he would remain with the network until his death almost three decades later.
Washington Mutual obtained the naming rights and it was called the " WaMu Theater.
On Thursday, September 25, 2008, the United States Office of Thrift Supervision ( OTS ) seized Washington Mutual Bank from Washington Mutual, Inc. and placed it into the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ).
The holding company, Washington Mutual, Inc., was left with $ 33 billion in assets, and $ 8 billion debt, after being stripped of its banking subsidiary by the FDIC.
The next day, September 26, Washington Mutual, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 voluntary bankruptcy in Delaware, where it is incorporated.
With respect to total assets under management, Washington Mutual Bank's closure and receivership is the largest bank failure in American financial history.
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( Washington, D. C .: Judd & Detweiler Inc., 1910
Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2000.
* Bethell, Tom, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, Washington, DC, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005 ISBN 0-89526-031-X
It is currently known as Square Enix, Inc. Square Soft's original headquarters were in Redmond, Washington, where it distributed its now-dead newsletter, the Ogopogo Examiner, but it was relocated to Costa Mesa, California in August 1996, where it remained until late 2005 ; as of 2006, Square Enix, Inc. is now located in El Segundo, California.
The San Francisco national chapter retained the name " Mattachine Society ", while the New York chapter became " Mattachine Society of New York, Inc ." Other independent groups using the name Mattachine were formed in Washington, D. C. ( Mattachine Society of Washington, 1961 ), and in Chicago ( Mattachine Midwest, 1965 ).
* Blankley, Tony, The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations ?, Washington, D. C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005 ISBN 0-89526-015-8
The paper is published twice a week under the auspices of Washington University Student Media, Inc., an independent non-for-profit organization incorporated in 1999.
A leading figure in the restoration of nearby Historic Washington State Park in Washington, Arkansas, was James H. Pilkinton ( 1914 – 1994 ) of Hope, who served as president of the Pioneer Washington Restoration Foundation, Inc., from 1959 – 1960 and again from 1973-1990.
Washington Square Press, Inc ( 1966 ).
The newspaper is owned by The Washington Post Company, an education and media company that also owns Kaplan, Inc., and many media ventures besides The Post.
The paper is part of The Washington Post Company, a diversified education and media company that also owns educational services provider Kaplan, Inc., Post-Newsweek Stations, Cable One, the online magazine Slate, The Gazette and Southern Maryland Newspapers, and The Herald, a daily paper in Everett, Washington.
The Pennville Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. is located at 105 North Washington Street, and is a non-profit domestic corporation created October 23, 1961, the first fire department in the town having been organized in 1919.
* Myra Hemmings ( August 30, 1895 – December 8, 1968 ) was a founder and first president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. in 1913 on the campus of Howard University, Washington D. C ..
In 2006, a non-profit corporation, called the Friends of Happy Retreat, Inc. ( FOHR ), purchased an option to buy the former home of Charles Washington outright.
In October 2006, following a $ 110 million fund raising campaign, two new buildings designed by GWWO, Inc ./ Architects were opened as venues for additional background on George Washington and the American Revolution.
Brassey's Inc. Washington 2004.
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2007.
Despite the similarity in name and the fact that both groups were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there was never any connection between OSF and the Free Software Foundation, neither is it associated with the technology non-profit Open Software Foundation based in Washington, DC or Open Systems, Inc.
Washington, D. C .: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1962.
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Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington castigated his critic, General Conway, as being capable of `` all the meanness of intrigue to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity ''.
Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.
`` We have now a national character to establish '', Washington wrote in 1783.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.
In the 1930's, cures for the depression literally flooded Washington.
and George Washington Harris, whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
from the home of his friend, Henrik Kauffmann, in Washington, D.C., Paul Bang-Jensen sent a telegram dated December 9, 1957, to Ernest Gross.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.
There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.
So far as `` sacredness '' inheres in any aspect of creation it seems to me to be found in human personality, whether in Lambarene, Africa, or in Washington, D.C..
From New Jersey, Morgan hastened to the headquarters of Washington at Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, arriving there on November 18th.
In order to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch several units to reinforce the fort, including a force under the Marquis De Lafayette containing some 160 of Morgan's riflemen, all who were fit for duty at this time, the rest having no shoes.
Nathanael Greene told Washington that `` Lafayette was charmed with the spirited behavior of the militia and riflemen ''.
The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
Morgan hotly denied this and informed the Board of War that the men in camp linked the name of Peters with the plot against Washington.
In order to see that this hindering situation remained effective, Washington detached several bodies of his troops to the periphery of the Philadelphia area.
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