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Since he had insufficient manpower to actually assault the fort, Brown then withdrew to Lake George, where he made an unsuccessful attempt to capture a storage depot on an island in the lake.
Skelton changed sponsors in 1948 ; Brown and Williamson, owners of Raleigh cigarettes, withdrew due to program production costs.
As a child Brown attended the local Grammar School ( now called Montrose Academy ), then Marischal College at Aberdeen, but withdrew in his fourth year when the family moved to Edinburgh in 1790.
This role was originally to be filled by Stephanie Brown, but DC editorial withdrew permission to use the character after her appearance had already been announced and solicited, necessitating Gordon again replace her.
After the loss of Atlanta, Brown withdrew the state's militia from the Confederate forces to harvest crops for the state and the army.
He resigned as president of Brown in 1897 because of criticism by trustees of his advocacy of free silver but at that time withdrew his resignation.
His international career was ended prematurely, however, after he was critical of coaches Andy Roxburgh and Craig Brown and withdrew himself from further selection.
At the beginning of the police investigation in 2000, the girl was one of many complainants, but she withdrew her allegations against Brown before the trial.
Albert Gallatin Brown ( May 31, 1813June 12, 1880 ) was Governor of Mississippi from 1844 to 1848 and a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1854 through 1861 when he withdrew.
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation probed the matter in 1983, Brown claimed he withdrew the money to cover gambling debts he ran up during " one bad night gambling " in Las Vegas.
Less than two months later, Brown and Root withdrew as the construction contractor and Ebasco Constructors was hired to replace them in February 1982.
Frank Wheaton attended Brown University, studying civil engineering, but withdrew in 1850 at the age of seventeen to take a position with Mexican-American Boundary Commission, where he worked for the next five years.
In 1872, Brown withdrew from the partnership with his brother and left Glengarry.
Acting governor John Bruce, who agreed with Brown's legal position, smoothed the matter over, and Brown withdrew his resignation.
In 2005, Brown declared his intention to run for the U. S. Senate in 2006, challenging incumbent Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, but withdrew from the race and endorsed another Democratic candidate, Sheldon Whitehouse, who went on to win the general election.

Brown and membership
In some cases, such as the Ring-tailed Lemur, the groups are long-lasting, with distinct dominance hierarchies, while in others, such as the Common Brown Lemur, the membership of the groups varies from day to day, and seems to have no clear social structure.
" Sir Alan Budd, the Treasury's Chief Economic Adviser during the period and later appointed by Gordon Brown to the Monetary Policy Committee, in an economic assessment of Britain's membership of the ERM, has written, " although it was certainly a political disaster, the case can be made that it was an economic triumph and marked the turning point in our macro-economic performance.
As of spring 2004 it mothballed its campaigning after Chancellor Gordon Brown ruled out UK membership of the euro for the foreseeable future.
The Second White Council's membership included the Wizards Saruman the White, Gandalf the Grey and Radagast the Brown, and the chiefs and rulers of the Eldar including Lady Galadriel of Lothlórien, Master Elrond of Rivendell and Círdan the Shipwright of the Grey Havens.
This gave the NF a chance to air its views, which resulted in the NF Coleraine organiser, Mark Brown, thanking John Dallat for helping the NF double its support in Coleraine through enquiries and membership.
The R & A has a men-only membership policy ; in 2012, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the club to abandon this in favour of a non-discriminatory policy.
Gordon Brown, in his first press conference as British Prime Minister ( 2007 ), ruled out membership for the foreseeable future, saying that the decision not to join had been right for Britain and for Europe.
Since Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), Justice Harlan's dissent in Plessy has been vindicated as a matter of legal doctrine, and the clause has been interpreted as imposing a general restraint on the government's power to discriminate against people based on their membership in certain classes, including those based on race and sex ( see below ).
The Brunonian ( Brown University ) chapter first initiated women into its local membership in November, 1973 and this was followed by a proposal at the 1974 national convention to either allow individual chapters to admit women or to do so fraternity-wide.
Sir George Martin received an honorary membership ( inducted by the then British Chancellor of the Exchequer and future Prime Minister Gordon Brown ).
The fraternity's membership roster includes United States President James A. Garfield ( Williams 1856 ), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes ( Colgate and Brown 1881 ), United States Senator-Vermont Justin S. Morrill ( Middlebury 1860 ), Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester B. Pearson ( Toronto 1919 ), President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ( Kansas 1973 ), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command Tommy Franks ( Texas 1963 ), Actor Alan Thicke ( Western Ontario 1967 ), Author Stephen Crane ( Lafayette and Syracuse 1894 ), Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( Cornell 1944 ), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner ( Denison 1964 ), and Nobel Prize winners Charles Dawes ( Marietta 1884 ), Christian B. Anfinsen ( Swarthmore 1937 ), and Edward C. Prescott ( Swarthmore 1962 ).
The membership of the band that originally split up in 2008 consisted of founding members Samuel Preston ( vocals, guitar ) – generally known simply by his surname " Preston ", William Brown ( guitar ), James Gregory ( bass ), plus Simon Goldring ( drums ), who had replaced Charles " Chuck " Stanley in 2005.
Its membership includes Clive Cussler, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, John Lescroart, Steve Berry, David Baldacci, Dale Brown, Sandra Brown, Tess Gerritsen, Lee Child, M. J.
Though BACH was founded by Brown University students, it is an incorporated entity independent of Brown University, and has an open membership.

Brown and from
Moreover, the entire state Democratic hierarchy, from Gov. Brown on down to the county chairmen, also participates in this huge operation.
The turret screw machine, now known as the Brown & Sharpe hand screw machine, takes its ancestry directly from Mr. Brown's efforts to introduce equipment to simplify the manufacture of the sewing machine.
Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.
On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.
`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
Even the mess sergeant, Bill Brown, a dapper, cocky transfer from an airborne division, went out on the range.
Winslow Upton after graduation from Brown University and two years of graduate study, accepted a position at the Harvard Observatory.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown will return next week from Bermuda.
A two-family house at 255 Brook Street has been purchased by Brown University from Lawrence J. Sullivan, according to a deed filed Monday at City Hall.
Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.
* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.
Man in the Brown Suit started with Belcher from the world tour.
Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.
* 1929 – is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
Other groups include: Carnegie Mellon University's Deewane, Northwestern University's Brown Sugar, Chai-Town from the University of Illinois, Raagapella from Stanford University, Andaaz from the University of California, Irvine, and Maize Mirchi from University of Michigan.
The other three were Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass., Inc., 366 U. S. 617 ( 1961 ); Braunfeld v. Brown, 366 U. S. 599 ( 1961 ); Two Guys from Harrison vs. McGinley, 366 U. S. 582 ( 1961 ).
In 1960, he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from The Franklin Institute.
Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.
Several of the buildings on the Brown campus from its founding 18th century period through the 20th century offer fine representation of the Georgian style of American colonial era architecture.
Detail from an oil painting by Cosmo Alexander, 1770 ; in University Hall, Brown University, Providence, R. I.

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