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He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.
To attack Pike directly would gain Woodruff little, for as a penniless newcomer Pike had nothing to lose.
By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.
It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.
But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.
As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.
Woodruff's sleeping car company, as a reward for holding shares that Woodruff had given to Scott and Thomson, as a payoff.
Grundy's daughter, lawyer Angela Woodruff, became concerned when solicitor Brian Burgess informed her that a will had been made, apparently by her mother.
While Woodruff has several private practices, it has not had a hospital since BJ Workman Memorial Hospital closed its doors.
President Woodruff hastened to add that he had acted only as the Lord directed:
In 1918, Ford's closest aide and private secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, purchased the Independent from Marcus Woodruff, who had been running it at a loss.
* In April 2011, a new theatrical adaptation of Autumn Sonata, based on Bergman's original screeplay, had its World Premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT, directed by Robert Woodruff.
William Woodruff of the Gazette said Hindman died as an " able and distinguished man " whose " short but splendid career " had a profound impact on Arkansan state politics.
In 1850, after the Gazette had briefly failed under its new owners, Woodruff regained control and combined it with his Democrat as the Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat.
First, in an interview with CNN, Miller had a dispute with Judy Woodruff, Wolf Blitzer, and Jeff Greenfield when they questioned him on his speech, particularly on whether he had misinterpreted the context and full content of Kerry's votes, and the fact that Dick Cheney, as Defense Secretary, had opposed some of the same programs he attacked Kerry for voting against.
He married shortly thereafter to Clara Drake Woodruff, by whom he had 4 children.
For example, Brigham Young decided that John Taylor was to be President of the Twelve and Wilford Woodruff follow him in seniority due to the readmission to the quorum of Orson Hyde, who had been disfellowshipped in 1846, and Orson Pratt, who had been excommunicated in 1842.

Woodruff and supported
The implication of belief in a hemispheric Book of Mormon geography by these men is supported by several references made by Wilford Woodruff.
When Apostles Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, Pratt, and Lyman Wight arrived in Nauvoo on 6 August, Lyman sided with the group of Latter Day Saints who supported the leadership of Young and the Quorum of the Twelve, as opposed to that of Sidney Rigdon, Smith's First Counselor in the First Presidency.

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Jack persuades his parents ( Diane Lane and Brian Kerwin ) to let him attend regular school, based upon a recommendation from his tutor, Mr. Woodruff ( Bill Cosby ).
During his time as president of the LDS Church, Woodruff had his wife Emma Smith Woodruff accompany him to public functions, and she was the only wife he lived with after Phoebe's death in 1885.
Woodruff was in Sanpete County, Utah, in hiding from federal agents seeking him on anti-polygamy warrants when he learned of Taylor's death.
:"' I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.
The Robert W. Woodruff Professorships are named for him.
Atlanta's largest cultural institution, the Woodruff Arts Center, benefited from his gifts and is named for him, as is Woodruff Park.
( Woodruff Dam is not named after him, but rather for Jim Woodruff.
Lucy had spent much of her time growing up in the household of her grandfather Wilford Woodruff, and looked on him as almost more of a father than a grandfather.
Azimuth barely has time to hide Woodruff before the BigWig breaks into their home, kidnapping the Professor and ruthlessly gunning down Woodruff's beloved teddy bear in the process, but not before befitting him with a Viblefrotzer, an invention of his own design that helps rapidly speed the aging process ( and looks eerily similar to a Sony Walkman ).
In 1989, while Woodruff was teaching law in Beijing, CBS News hired him as an on-screen interpreter during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

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After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.
Allen Christenson, Néstor Quiroa, Rosa Helena Chinchilla Mazariegos, John Woodruff, and Carlos López all consider the Newberry's volume to be Ximénez's one and only " original.
The Woodruff House spans three centuries in one structure, from the original 1735 building, to the 1790 addition, to the 1890s kitchen all the way to the 1900s store.
Matthias F. Cowley, editor of his published journals, observed that Woodruff was ... perhaps, the best chronicler of events in all the history of the Church.
Among other achievements, his mayoral administration is credited with establishing the Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Authority, the Omni Coliseum ), the first enclosed arena in Atlanta, and Woodruff Park in Central City, all without higher ad valorem taxes.
Woodruff was transferred on March 16, 2006, to a medical facility closer to his Westchester County, New York, home, a sign of " continued progress in all respects ", ABC News President David Westin said in an e-mail to staffers.
Richwoods is currently a member of the Mid-State 6 Conference which includes five regular members: Peoria High School ( Central ), Woodruff High School, Manual High School, Peoria Notre Dame High School for all sports, and includes Quincy Notre Dame High School for football only.

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The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.
State Route 39 heads west into the Wasatch Range from Woodruff on its way to Huntsville and eventually Ogden.
The key to effective palliative care is to provide a safe way for the individual to address their physical and psychological distress, that is to say their total suffering, a concept first thought up by Cicely Saunders, and now widely used, for instance by authors like Twycross or Woodruff.
In the most renowned legal fight of farmers against miners, the farmers sued the hydraulic mining operations and the landmark case of Edwards Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company made its way to the United States District Court in San Francisco where Judge Lorenzo Sawyer decided in favor of the farmers in 1884, declaring that hydraulic mining was “ a public and private nuisance ” and enjoining its operation in areas tributary to navigable streams and rivers.

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