These benefits were agreed upon in lieu of a more traditional stock package because, according to Welch, he did not want more money, preferring instead to retain the lifestyle he had enjoyed as CEO once he retired.

The society was established in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 9, 1958, by a group of 12 led by Robert Welch, Jr., a retired candy manufacturer from Belmont, Massachusetts.

Welch flew three combat tours ( a total of 348 combat missions with 16 confirmed victories, all achieved in multiples ) before malaria retired him from the war.

When Robarts retired, Welch ran to succeed him in the 1971 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

After Welch retired Munson, Jackson strode to the plate for his first confrontation with Welch since Game 2.

General ( retired ) Larry D. Welch ( born June 9, 1934 ) was the 12th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.

8 / 28 / 2012-General ( retired ) Larry Welch, speaks at the Defense Science Board breakfast as Col. Andrew Gebara, the 2nd Bomb Wing Commander, listens at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana | LA.

Welch recently ( 2009 ) retired as the president of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia ..

His partner in the company was his brother, Robert W. Welch, Jr., who retired from the confectionery business in 1956 and two years later founded the John Birch Society.

while projecting from beneath the couch were a pair of feet which, as Fate would have it, belonged to District Attorney Welch.

In 1973, Welch attained a Master of Science degree in Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

The series also made extensive use of incidental music, composed by Ed Welch, which often hinted at a particular genre to fit the mood of the scenes, frequently incorporating well-known pieces of music such as " God rest you merry, gentlemen " or Intermezzo from Jean Sibelius ' Karelia Suite.

* Fozzie's Muppet Scrapbook-Hosted by Fozzie in the attic as he looks through a scrapbook of his material from the show, with guest stars Raquel Welch, Beverly Sills, and Milton Berle.

Glamorous Night starred Novello and Mary Ellis, with a cast including Zena Dare, Olive Gilbert and Elizabeth Welch, and ran from 2 May 1935 to 18 July 1936, at Drury Lane and then the London Coliseum.

" One such possibility, Welch says, is that the story is of a historical telescoping nature: " that a situation that was known by Muhammad's contemporaries to have lasted for a long period of time later came to be encapsulated in a story that restricts his acceptance of intercession through these goddesses to a brief period of time and places the responsibility for this departure from a strict monotheism on Satan.

With the outbreak of the First World War, Jones enlisted with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and served on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918.

Welch was a key reason for the band's move from England to California in the mid-1970s, played lead and rhythm guitar and wrote or co-wrote many of the songs on five Fleetwood Mac albums.

Welch, who anchored the band from 1971 to 1974, was not.

As Fusilier Robert Graves reported, " the regiment retorted by inquiring on what occasion since the retreat from Corunna, when the regiment was the last to leave Spain, with the keys of the town postern in the pocket of one of its officers, had any of His Majesty's enemies seen the back of a Royal Welch Fusilier ?," and the matter remained " in abeyance throughout the war.

With the July 2012 announcements of further cut backs in the regiments resulting in the disbandment of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh, that left the 1st Battalion the Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers ) as once more the only non-Guards based infantry regiment drawn from Wales.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Fictional alumni include the title character on Crossing Jordan, Alex Welch from the novella The Odd Saga of the American and a Curious Icelandic Flock, and Dr. Jennifer Melfi on The Sopranos.

Welch as seen from across the Cannon River ( Minnesota ) | Cannon River

* WelchOK. com: News & Info from Welch, Oklahoma

* Louie Welch, mayor of Houston, Texas, from 1964 to 1973, was born in Lockney in 1918.

Results of the election were contested so to avoid violence county records were secretly moved from Perryville to Welch at night in two wagons by James A. Strother and Trigg Tabor.

On August 1, 1921, detectives from the Baldwin-Felts agency assassinated Matewan Police Chief Sid Hatfield as well as Ed Chambers at the McDowell County Courthouse located in Welch.

On 27 May 1965, McCartney and Asher flew to Lisbon for a holiday in Albufeira, Algarve, and he borrowed an acoustic guitar from Bruce Welch, in whose house they were staying, and completed the work on " Yesterday ".

Raquel Welch in her famous pin-up photo from 1966's One Million Years B. C.

In a 1997 episode of the comedy series Seinfeld entitled The Summer of George, Welch played a highly temperamental version of herself, assaulting series characters Kramer and Elaine, the former because he fired her from an acting job and the latter because Welch mistakenly thought that Elaine was mocking her.

The song featured vocals from Lynn Anderson, Butch Baker, Shane Barmby, Billy Hill, Suzy Bogguss, Kix Brooks, T. Graham Brown, the Burch Sisters, Holly Dunn, Foster & Lloyd, Vince Gill, William Lee Golden, Highway 101, Shelby Lynne, Johnny Rodriguez, Dan Seals, Les Taylor, Pam Tillis, Mac Wiseman, and Kevin Welch.

A notable departure from the industrial form of the label was the blues standard " Stormy Weather " sung by Elisabeth Welch, taken from the soundtrack of Derek Jarman's film The Tempest.

* 1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, " You've done enough.

Laura Lane Welch Bush ( born November 4, 1946 ) is the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.

1817 ), and in the United States in 1837 in Vickery v. Welch, 36 Mass.

* June 9 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army, saying, ' Have you, at long last, no decency?

Welch Township is a township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States.

Welch is a town in Craig County, Oklahoma, United States.

Welch was the location of the first memorial building in the United States dedicated to the memory of Americans who gave their lives for their country in World War I, and to honor the veterans of that war.

In 1928, Welch resident Minnie Buckingham Harper became the first black woman legislator in the United States.

Welch also built the first municipally owned parking building in the United States, which was opened September 1, 1941.

Welch named the new organization after John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and United States military intelligence officer who had been shot by communist forces in China in August 1945, shortly after the conclusion of World War II.

In the 1960s Welch insisted that the Johnson administration's fight against communism in Vietnam was part of a communist plot aimed at taking over the United States.

Welch demanded that the United States get out of Vietnam, thus aligning the Society with the left.

The resulting libel suit, Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., reached the United States Supreme Court, which held that a state may allow a private figure such as Gertz to recover actual damages from a media defendant without proving malice, but that a public figure does have to prove actual malice, according to the standard laid out in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, in order to recover presumed damages or punitive damages.

Herbert George Welch ( November 7, 1862 – April 4, 1969 ) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church.

In 1974, he became a personal assistant ; first to Sir James Goldsmith and then in 1976 to United States Senator Mark Hatfield, whose service he left in 1978 to become a director of Bland Welch, Lloyd's Brokers.

In recent years, keynote graduation speakers have included future Attorney General Eric Holder ( 2001 ), former President Bill Clinton ( 2002 ), GE CEO Jack Welch ( 2003 ), United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan ( 2004 ), CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein ( 2005 ), Late Night comedian Conan O ' Brien ( 2006 ),> American Symphony Orchestra conductor / Bard College president Leon Botstein ( 2007 ), New York Times reporter David Herszenhorn ( 2008 ), actress / alumna Lucy Liu ( 2009 ), David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama ( 2010 ), and writer / alum Gary Shteyngart ( 2011 ).

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U. S. 323 ( 1974 ), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established the standard of First Amendment protection against defamation claims brought by private individuals.

* Richard E. Welch, Jr., Response to Imperialism: The United States and the Philippine-American War, 1899 — 1902 ( 1978 )

The Commission's members had included both William Welch, the first Dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Simon Flexner and the China Medical Board modeled the school after Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine following the recommendations of the Flexner Report which set the foundation of modern Medical Education in the United States and Canada.

Aristides ( named for his breeder's good friend and fellow horse breeder, the Pennsylvanian Aristides Welch who owned Erdenheim Stud and who had imported Leamington into the United States ) was foaled late in the season, and was small, never standing taller than about 15 hands.

* Adonijah S. Welch, United States Senator

Welch is best known both for being one of over 17 United States Army Air Forces fighter pilots able to get airborne to engage Japanese forces in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Joseph Nye Welch ( October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960 ) was the head counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for Communist activities, an investigation known as the Army – McCarthy hearings.

* Laura Welch ( later Bush ), future First Lady of the United States, causes a car accident that results in the death of Michael Dutton Douglas in her hometown of Midland, Texas.