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Wilfrid and chief
He was also head of the French section of the Canadian Censorship Branch through most of the Second World War, assuming full control of the Censorship Branch in January 1945, when chief censor Wilfrid Eggleston resigned.
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Nimitz's chief of intelligence, Captain Edwin T. Layton, whimsically suggested one of Commander Rochefort's men, Wilfrid J.

Wilfrid and advocate
Because of Agilbert ’ s inability to express the complicated arguments in Old English, which was for him a foreign language, Wilfrid was selected as the prime advocate for the Roman party.
Although called a liberal by the contemporary English admirer, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Jamal ad-Din did not advocate constitutional government.
In AD 664 a conference was held at Whitby Abbey ( known as the Whitby Synod ) to decide the matter ; Saint Wilfrid was an advocate for the Roman rites and Bishop Colmán for the Irish rites.

Wilfrid and for
Bede had another brush with Wilfrid, for the historian himself says that he met Wilfrid, sometime between 706 and 709, and discussed Æthelthryth, the abbess of Ely.
Wilfrid had been present at the exhumation of her body in 695, and Bede questioned the bishop about the exact circumstances of the body and asked for more details of her life, as Wilfrid had been her advisor.
The battle of the name raged on for many years and drove a wedge between Louis and LeGros Clark, Sir Wilfrid from 1955, who took the Paranthropus view.
An analytic philosopher, Rorty believed that combining Willard Van Orman Quine's criticism of the analytic-synthetic distinction with Wilfrid Sellars's critique of the " Myth of the Given " allowed for an abandonment of the view of the thought or language as a mirror of a reality or external world.
Privately, he was highly eccentric with his preference for communing with spirits, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish Terrier dogs, all named Pat except for one named Bob.
In 681 the founder of Selsey Abbey, the exiled St Wilfrid of Northumbria, arrived in the kingdom of the South Saxons and remained there for five years evangelising and baptising the people.
Today Wilfrid Laurier University is reputed for its business and liberal arts programs while the University of Waterloo is reputed for its engineering and math programs.
A collaborative effort between the University of Waterloo, Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier and Conestoga College the Partnerships for Employment Career Fair is the largest in the country.
The third version of The Plank was made in 1979 for Thames TV as a half-hour TV special, with a cast including Eric, Arthur Lowe ( taking Tommy Cooper's role ), Charlie Drake, Charles Hawtrey and Wilfrid Hyde-White.
Alchfrith ’ s position in the royal house, together with his promotion of Wilfrid ( who would be the spokesperson for the Roman position at the synod ), has contributed to the view that he was instrumental in arranging his father ’ s convocation of the synod.
Wilfrid ’ s advocation of the Roman Easter has been called, “ a triumphant push against an open door ”, since most of the Irish had already accepted the Roman Easter and for this reason Iona “ was already in danger of being pushed to one side by its Irish rivals ”.
In 664 Wilfrid acted as spokesman for the Roman " party " at the Council of Whitby, and became famous for his speech advocating that the Roman method for calculating the date of Easter should be adopted.
Wilfrid went to Mercia, where he helped missionaries and acted as bishop for the Mercian king.
The main sources for knowledge of Wilfrid are the medieval Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, written by Stephen of Ripon soon after Wilfrid's death, and the works of the medieval historian Bede, who knew Wilfrid during the bishop's lifetime.
Other, more minor, sources for Wilfrid's life include a mention of Wilfrid in one of Bede's letters.

Wilfrid and Roman
The tension between the Roman and Irish traditions, often exacerbated by Cuthbert's near-contemporary Saint Wilfrid, an intransigent and quarrelsome supporter of Roman ways, was to be a major feature of Cuthbert's lifetime.
Bede writes that the dispute was brought to a head by Oswiu's son Eahlfrith, who had adopted Roman usages at the urging of Wilfrid.
Wilfrid argued the Roman position on the following grounds ( according to Bede's narrative ):
After Wilfrid's return to Northumbria in about 658, Cenwalh, King of Wessex, recommended Wilfrid to Alhfrith, Oswiu's son, as a cleric well-versed in Roman customs and liturgy.
Wilfrid ejected the abbot, Eata, because he would not follow the Roman customs ; Cuthbert, later a saint, was another of the monks expelled.
Bede describes Wilfrid as saying that those who did not calculate the date of Easter according to the Roman system were committing a sin.
Wilfrid may have persuaded King Ecgberht of Kent in 669 to build a church in an abandoned Roman fort at Reculver.
The tension between the Roman and Irish traditions, often exacerbated by Cuthbert's near-contemporary Saint Wilfrid, an intransigent and quarrelsome supporter of Roman ways, was to be a major feature of Cuthbert's lifetime.
The parish church, dedicated to St Wilfrid, and the Roman Catholic church of St Paul are among the churches and chapels in Haywards Heath.
The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Wilfrid while the local Roman Catholic church is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows.
The first choice to replace Tuda was Wilfrid, a particularly zealous partisan of the Roman cause.
Wilfrid met with his own teacher and patron, Agilbert, a spokesman for the Roman side at Whitby, who had been made bishop of Paris.
This had also manifested itself against Roman Catholic Prime Ministers of Canada as well, such as John Thompson, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
In 663 Alhfrith and Wilfrid persuaded King Oswiu to hold the Synod of Whitby to decide which traditions within Christianity, Celtic or Roman, would take priority in Northumbria over matters such as the clerical tonsure and the date of Easter ; the synod decided to accept the arguments of Wilfrid and the king for the Roman traditions, to which Eata, unlike Colmán of Lindisfarne, acquiesced.

Wilfrid and position
Eventually, Sir Wilfrid Laurier was able to lead the Liberals back to a competitive position in English Canada, but by the time of the First World War, and the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Laurier again found himself in charge of a Liberal Party limited to Quebec and a few other pockets.
Quine ( 1960 ) and Wilfrid Sellars ( 1958 ) both comment on this intermediary position.
The position of Secretary of State for Canada had no relation to that of Secretary of State for External Affairs except for the period from 1909 until 1912 when the Secretary of State for Canada ( Charles Murphy under Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William James Roche under Sir Robert Borden ) was responsible for the newly created Department of External Affairs.
Marcil was nominated for the position of Speaker by Wilfrid Laurier following the 1908 election.
In his later career, he represented crown interests in the Bering Sea Arbitration of 1893, and was selected by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier to represent the Canadian position in a dispute with the United States regarding the boundaries of Alaska.
This position put him at odds with the Liberal federal government, led by Wilfrid Laurier, who wanted the new provinces ' governments to be Liberal.

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