Pei spent ten years working with New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf before establishing his own independent design firm that eventually became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

William Zeckendorf ( shown here in the office redesigned by his architectural team ) hired Pei after ordering a search for what he called " the greatest unknown architect in the country ".

In the spring of 1948 Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf to join a staff of architects for his firm of Webb and Knapp to design buildings around the country.

The United Nations Headquarters complex was constructed in New York City in 1949 – 1950 beside the East River, on of land purchased from the foremost New York real estate developer of the time, William Zeckendorf.

In 1953, the real estate developer William Zeckendorf bought the 740 Park Avenue apartment complex and then sold it to Rockefeller, who quickly turned the building into a cooperative, selling it on to his rich neighbors in the building.

The building was then acquired by real estate developer William Zeckendorf, who sought unsuccessfully for the New York Stock Exchange to move there.

Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Worldwide Plaza complex was developed by William Zeckendorf, Jr.

After the airfield was closed in 1951, the site was developed by New York's William Zeckendorf and designed by I. M.

In August 1958, William Zeckendorf, a friend of Wright's and a New York real estate developer then involved in several development projects on Chicago's south side, acquired the Robie House at Wright's urging from the seminary through his development company Webb & Knapp.

William Zeckendorf joined the Firm in 1938 and acquired it in 1949.

William Zeckendorf ( 1952 )

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A consortium led by New York developer William Zeckendorf, Jr. was chosen to build and operate the building and lease it to the government.

Delta Partnership, a development consortium led by New York developer William Zeckendorf, Jr., was chosen to operate the building and lease it to the government.

William Zeckendorf in 1952.

" L ' Enfant Plaza " was the name proposed by New York City developer William Zeckendorf in February 1954 as the title for a cultural center within a development that would almost completely encompass all of Southwest D. C. ( an area designated as " Project C ").

In February 1969, Koubek, former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, and developer William Zeckendorf ceremonially broke ground for the West Building, which with of interior office space was the largest private office building at the time in Washington.

Developer William Zeckendorf offered the club the top floor of the Place Ville Marie tower in exchange for their property, but was turned down.

Developer William Zeckendorf lost a bet to then Royal Bank President Earle McLaughlin, making payment in full ( US $ 0. 10 ) in an elaborate dime encased in acrylic.

In 1959, Shor sold the lease for his 51st Street restaurant for $ 1. 5 million to William Zeckendorf ( taken from the 2006 documentary Toots ).

Originally promised to be finished for the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens, the project was completed in October 1956, with an opening ceremony run by Moses, Governor Averill Harriman, William Zeckendorf and local officials.

At Roosevelt Field, the board chairman for Roosevelt Field, Inc., William Zeckendorf, honored Moses and Harriman with brand new sterling silver tankards.

Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.

Bogart resumed his friendship with boyhood pal Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr .' s new company World Films.

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

In 1893, Rice made a new will, naming as executors James A. Baker Sr. ( a lawyer who often worked for Rice ), William M. Rice Jr. ( his nephew ), and John D. Bartine.

* February 21 – The stock car racing series Nascar is founded by Bill France Sr. and William France, Sr.

* October 31 – John William Wood Sr., North Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina ( b. 1855 )

* November 24 – William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American businessman ( b. 1792 )

* November 30 – William H. Gates, Sr., American attorney, father of Bill Gates

** William " Red " Hill Sr. makes his famous five-hour journey down the Niagara lower rapids.

* September 19 – William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American business tycoon ( d. 1875 )

* December 28 – John William Wood Sr., North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina ( d. 1928 )

Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included John Stuart, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann ( father of James Vann ), Daniel Ross ( father of John Ross ), John Walker Sr., John McLemore ( father of Bob ), William Buchanan, John Watts ( father of John Watts Jr .), John D. Chisholm, John Benge ( father of Bob Benge ), Thomas Brown, John Rogers ( Welsh ), John Gunter ( German, founder of Gunter's Landing ), James Adair ( Irish ), William Thorpe ( English ), and Peter Hildebrand ( German ), among many others, several attaining the status of minor chiefs and / or members of significant delegations.

Chief among the Post's anonymous sources was an individual whom Woodward and Bernstein had nicknamed Deep Throat ; thirty years later in 2005, he was revealed to be William Mark Felt, Sr., the former Deputy Director of the FBI.

* William Windham, Sr.

* William Veeck, Sr., a sports columnist who was hired as team vice-president by the Chicago Cubs ' William Wrigley Jr. after a series he wrote criticizing the team.

Reid was born in Victoria, British Columbia to an American father William Ronald Reid, Sr. of Scottish-German descent and a mother, Sophie Gladstone Reid, from the Kaadaas gaah Kiiguwaay, Raven / Wolf Clan of T ' anuu, or more commonly known as the Haida, one of the First Nations of the Pacific coast.

It stars Tyrone Power, Sr., Juan de la Cruz, Helen Riaume, William Haben and C. Norman Hammond.

Its name is in honor of William Parish Chilton, Sr. ( 1810 – 1871 ), a lawyer who became Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and later represented Montgomery County in the Congress of the Confederate States of America.

In 1919, Fox Film Corporation produced and released the feature The Lincoln Highwayman, a black and white silent film starring William Russell, Lois Lee, Frank Brownlee, Jack Connolly, Edward Peil, Sr., Harry Spingler, and Edward B. Tilton.

He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

Gwynn's Island resident William B. Livermon, Sr. appeared throughout the 1970s on television in religion segments as " The Circuit Rider ".

, members of the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders ( with their term end dates and committee chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are Freeholder Director William Whelan ( 2011 ; Finance ), Deputy Freeholder Director James A. Dunkins ( 2011 ; Health ), Samuel L. Fiocchi, Sr. ( 2013 ; Public Works ), Jane Jannarone ( 2011 ; Public Affairs, Cultural & History ), Carl W. Kirstein ( 2013 ; Public Property & Personnel ) and Thomas Sheppard ( 2012 ; Agriculture ).