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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.
So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.
After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.
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.
Woodruff was furious.
The eventual prize in this new battle was the public printing contract that Woodruff still held.
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.
The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.
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.
) Assistant Church Historian, Andrew Jenson, also reported that the alphabet was produced by a committee composed of Orson Pratt, Parley P. Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, George D. Watt, Robert L. Campbell, and others.
Apart from this, Woodruff surmises that because " Ximenez never discloses his source, instead inviting readers to infer what they wish [...], it is plausible that there was no such alphabetic redaction among the Indians.
A Mormon community named Salem and led by David King Udall was establish just north of the town under the direction of Wilford Woodruff on March 29, 1880 and then moved to higher ground by Erastus Snow on September 19 of the same year.
Sherman, Director of the Pacific Electric Railway Company, created a major real estate group to develop what is known today as the Hollywood Hills, Sidney H. Woodruff, already a prominent Los Angeles homebuilder, was hired to lead the project.
Although Woodruff continuously sought financial support through the years, this project was abandoned in 1939.
Samuel Woodruff, Southington's first white settler, moved from Farmington to the area then known as Panthorne that was settled in 1698.
In 1920, another building, the Lacey School, was built on present-day Woodruff Street.
The area of what is Reese today was first settled in 1865 when Mrs. Louisa Woodruff and her son built the first home ( near the current intersection of Reese Rd and Saginaw Rd.
The Hillside Historical Society was established in the 1980s in the Woodruff home on Conant Street, perhaps the township's oldest.
The church was named for Jamey's Creek, now called Jimmie's Creek, which heads off McArthur Street behind the Woodruff State Branch Bank on North Main Street.

Woodruff and now
Pike's honor would now come under attack, but not by Woodruff himself.
At that point, Woodruff reclaimed the secret formula and returned it to Atlanta and placed it in the Trust Company Bank, now SunTrust, where it remained until its recent move to the World of Coca-Cola.
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.
This addition ensures the Woodruff ’ s PreK-12 programs now reach more than one million children annually, the largest base of any arts center in the country.
Within seconds, Woodruff ages about fifteen years, finding himself now prepared for an epic quest: rescue his adopted father, avenge the death of his teddy bear by extracting revenge on the BigWig, and unravel the mystery of the Schnibble to help bring harmony back to the city.

Woodruff and on
Preoccupied with his own defense and his attempts to get Robinson to fight, Pike lessened his attacks on Woodruff, and finally stopped them altogether.
It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.
Alston worked with Hale Woodruff on the murals in a large studio space in New York where they utilized ladders to reach the upper parts of the canvas.
State Route 39 heads west into the Wasatch Range from Woodruff on its way to Huntsville and eventually Ogden.
Woodruff County is Arkansas's 54th county, formed on November 26, 1862, and named for William E. Woodruff, founder of the state's first newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette.
However, when Mormon apostle Wilford Woodruff spoke to a small congregation in the Iona area on June 17, 1884, he said:
The oldest standing home in Woodruff today is located on Main Street.
One such tree, estimated to be over 500 years old, resides in Bob Woodruff park near Rowlett Creek on the city's east side ( Plano ’ s Quincentennial Bur Oak ).
These quotes are according to the copy of Thucydides edited by Paul Woodruff, " Thucydides on Justice Power and Human Nature "
After visiting priesthood leaders in many settlements, President Woodruff left for San Francisco on September 3, 1890, to meet with prominent businessmen and politicians.
Batteries Hall and Woodruff each mounted two 6-inch M1905 guns also on disappearing carriages.
Bob Woodruff anchored the final edition of World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on August 12, 2005.
* William Woodruff wrote the novel Vessel of Sadness based on his experiences in the battle with the 24th Guards Brigade of the British Army at Anzio.
* 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.
* God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, Gregory E. Ganssle and David M. Woodruff ( editors ), 2002, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-512965-2

Woodruff and .
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.
Over the months he became a political gadfly with an incessant barrage of satirical poems ridiculing Woodruff, the `` Casca '' letters belittling Woodruff, and long analytical articles vilifying Woodruff.
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.
The charges would be made in The Gazette by an anonymous correspondent, and Pike would be so busy trying to track down the illusive character assassin that he would forget about harassing Woodruff.
Outraged, he used the Advocate of March 7th for a denial, sending immediately to Santa Fe and Van Buren for documents to vindicate himself, and demanding that Woodruff reveal the name of this perfidious slanderer who disguised himself under a pastoral pseudonym.
Woodruff said nothing, and Pike, frustrated, stormed throughout Little Rock in an unsuccessful search for `` Vale '', asking his friends to keep their ears open.
In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.
Shortly after the `` Vale '' incident, a rift began to develop between William Woodruff and Governor Pope.
Woodruff had supported him all the way, both as a chief executive and as a man.

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