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  The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (C)
Charles I was King of England from 1625 to 1649.
Charles II was King of England from 1660 to 1685.
On the death of Charles VI he refused to acknowledge Maria Theresa as heiress and in support of his own claims he invaded Austria with an army, took Prague and was crowned King of Bohemia and in 1742 was elected Emperor.
www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/C3.HTM   (9267 words)

  
 Quest for the Presidency: Charles thone a convention veteran 08/02/00
And Charles Thone, fresh from Hartington, Neb., was an ambitious young Republican driving up to his very first national convention.
It was billed as the battle for the soul of the Republican Party," says Thone, 76, a lawyer and former Nebraska governor and four-term congressman who began attending GOP conventions in 1952.
Thone, a World War II veteran, remembers the excitement of his first convention.
quest.cjonline.com /stories/080200/gop_0802005146.shtml   (768 words)

  
 Presidential Papers, Doc#403 Personal and confidential To Dwight Palmer Griswold, 5 September 1953. In The Papers of ...
Thone would perform brilliantly as an Assistant United States District Attorney, and I assure you that if the only reason that his appointment has been held up is because of his pre-convention convictions, that the Attorney General will take whatever action is necessary to straighten the matter out.
In a long telegram of September 4 Griswold had appealed to Eisenhower for a decision on the controversial appointment of Charles Thone as Assistant U.S. District Attorney (AWF/A, Brownell Corr.).
Thone would not receive the federal appointment but would continue to serve as Assistant U.S. District Attorney in Lincoln, Nebraska, a post he had held since 1952.
www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/first-term/documents/403.cfm   (649 words)

  
 Wikinfo | July Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Another very influential person at the congress was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, a French diplomat under Napoleon.
Although France was considered the enemy, Talleyrand was allowed to attend the congress because he claimed that he did not willfully cooperate with Napoleon but rather that he was forced to cooperate (which may or may not be true as Talleyrand was a master at switching sides).
Charles X abdicated rather than become a limited monarch and departed for England.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=July_Revolution   (1202 words)

  
 Independent Headlines: Letters to the editor 2/28/98
Breslow for governor features former Gov. Charles Thone saying that "John Breslow can reduce property taxes by 25 percent without hurting education, and that is leadership." Mr.
Thone can call that leadership, but I call it ludicrous; unless, of course, Mr.
Thone need to give the public a list of the educational programs they wish to eliminate or reduce so that the public can objectively evaluate their proposal.
www.theindependent.com /Archive/022898/stories/022898/edt_letters28.html   (514 words)

  
 JournalStar.com :: Printable Version
Thone cited the 3rd District congressman’s knowledge of key water and agricultural issues as well as his positions on tax cuts and economic development.
Osborne’s refusal to accept campaign contributions from corporations, political action committees or special interests, while imposing a $1,000-per-election limit on donations from individuals, is “something a lot of people ought to take notice of,” the former governor said.
Thone said it’s going to be a barnburner.
www.journalstar.com /articles/2006/01/16/local/doc43cc31602d6b2279334796.prt   (422 words)

  
 The Real Night of the Twisters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Charles Thone told Grand Island City Council members Wednesday morning that President Carter has been notified about the disaster and will determine if the area is declared a Federal Disaster Area.
Thone, after a short aerial reconnaissance of the area and a tour through town, labeled it a "terrible, terrible devastation".
Thone appeared at a mid-morning meeting at City Hall.
www.gitwisters.com /dayafter/devastation.php   (718 words)

  
 Attorney General - Opinion Archives
This is in response to your letter of November 5, 1981, requesting an opinion as to whether or not the amendments to Legislative Bill 7, adopted by the Nebraska Legislature on November 4 and 5 contain provisions which are outside Governor Thone's "call" for the current extraordinary session of the Nebraska Legislature.
The Committee Amendment to LB 7 which has been adopted provides that state funds will be used for AFDC payments for pregnant women whose needs in the first six months of pregnancy are not funded by federal participation.
It is the opinion of this office that since the call was for the purpose of reducing spending and for the amending of state laws as required by federal law an act authorizing additional benefits is clearly beyond the purpose of the Governor's call.
www.ago.state.ne.us /local/opinion/?topic=details&id=360   (202 words)

  
 Sioux City Journal: Luedtke, former lieutenant governor, Lincoln mayor dies at 81
Luedtke was elected to a four-year stint as lieutenant governor during an era when the governor and lieutenant governor ran for office separately.
Luedtke served under Gov. Charles Thone, a fellow Republican, from 1979 to 1983.
Conflict between Luedtke and Thone erupted in 1981, when Luedtke broke a tie by voting for a banking bill Thone opposed.
www.siouxcityjournal.com /articles/2005/07/24/news/nebraska/7dd6158eae502c6e86257048000c0eda.prt   (306 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Ruth Thone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
She is married to Charles Thone, former Nebraska governor and congressman.
Humor and gentleness mark this vibrant discussion of how women can be allowed to be old and feel good about themselves and their lives.
Discussion includes role models of aging, exploring regrets and discovering what goals and work women may be striving toward-and not necessarily as caretakers or as women attempting to stay young.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Thone_Ruth_502059550.htm   (491 words)

  
 National Republican Senatorial Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
But often overlooked whenever Stenberg's name appears on a ballot is the appeal that his strong anti-abortion, small-government and pro-gun views have always held among social conservatives and voters in western Nebraska - critical constituencies in a Republican primary.
Former Nebraska Gov. Charles Thone suggests that anyone counting out the old horse in this race might want to take another look at the form chart.
Thone said Stenberg was smart and worked harder and longer than anyone else in his administration.
www.nrsc.org /newsdesk/article.aspx?ID=2125   (1038 words)

  
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B. The National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice of the Department of Justice and the National Science Foundation should make a study of the theory and application of the principles of acoustics to forensic questions, using the materials available in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a case study.
President James A. Garfield was shot in the back by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, in Washington, D.C. Guiteau, a religious fanatic and would-be officeholder, had been denied access to the White House after he had asked to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to Austria.
President Charles de Gaulle of France, for example, insisted on a defense capability independent of the United 29 States and refused to sign any nuclear arms limitation treaty, thus threatening the cohesiveness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion.
karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/HSCA/RPT.TXT   (14716 words)

  
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He picked up the receiver of one and was told to hang up because it was a secure line for the president, he said.
The day of the speech, Thone - who before NU basketball games would routinely hang up his coat in Bryant's office - walked into the office and was ordered out by the Secret Service.
Thone, now 82, was a congressman at the time.
www.iastate.edu /~nscentral/mr/06/0224/sittingpresidents.doc   (861 words)

  
 giijune3-7
Nebraska Gov. Charles Thone declared the city a disaster area and came to Grand Island Wednesday morning to inspect the damage.
Thone took an aerial tour of the city and toured the hardest hit areas on the ground.
Thone and Rep. Virginia Smith Wednesday requested that President Carter declare the city a Federal disaster area.
www.hprcc.unl.edu /nebraska/giijune3-7.html   (916 words)

  
 Twisters @ theIndependent.com: President Carter visits 10/08/98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In the presidential limousine, Carter told Thone and Kriz he was deeply impressed by the spirit of the people and was awed by the massive destruction.
At the airport, Carter shed the jacket of his dark blue suit because of the heat and stepped to a podium in his television blue shirt to give a few last remarks to a crowd gathered behind the fence.
There was some discussion that the president's trip was made to win votes in November, but Thone insisted it was not done for that reason.
www.theindependent.com /Twisters/Stories/cartervisit.html   (1416 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Charles Thone was born in 1924 and grew up on Thone Farm five miles north of Hartington.
Thone was congressman for four terms and served as Nebraska's 34th governor.
He was chairman of the Midwest Governors Association, chairman of the National Governors Agriculture Committee, and chairman of President Reagan's Export Commission for Agriculture.
www.panesu.org /subject/markers/Hartington-Home-of-Two-Governors   (207 words)

  
 OnPolitics
Also attending as delegates are U.S. Reps. Doug Bereuter and Lee Terry and former Gov. Charles Thone.
Stenberg, trailing in polls behind the Democratic nominee, former Gov. Ben Nelson, will be campaigning in Nebraska for most of the convention, though he may put in an appearance in Philadelphia.
NEBRASKA NOTABLES: Gov. Mike Johanns and his wife, Stephanie, delegation co-chairmen; Reps. Doug Bereuter and Lee Terry; former Gov. Charles Thone; Omaha Mayor Harold J. Daub Jr.; 1992 Republican Senate nominee Jan Stoney.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/gop2000guide/states/ne.htm   (440 words)

  
 Governor Crosby - Capitol View Jan. 11, 2000
[Thone] "He was appointed to represent Duane Pope.
[Thone] "He will be missed his marriage to.
The processional of family and friends took Crosby to his final resting place, the Lincoln Memorial Park.
mynptv.org /newsFeat/capview/cv011100.html   (463 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
One moment of glory was the gubernatorial election of 1982.
Governor Charles Thone said of his offer to state employees, "if they don't like it they can quit." Rather than quitting, state employees rallied behind Bob Kerry, who won the election by some 8,000 votes.
Kerry's margin of victory in Lancaster County was by some 18,000 votes, proving that state employees are capable of achieving when they are focused on a goal.
www.napeafscme.org /HISTORYOfNAPE.htm   (531 words)

  
 E-News Digest Aug 16, 2005
Nebraska Political Figure Charles Thone Featured in NET1 Special Former Nebraska Governor Charles Thone shares insights and surprising stories about his half-century in politics and government during an hour-long NET Television special.
"Charles Thone: A Conversation," airs Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m.
Thone recounts the highlights of his life -- from his boyhood in CedarCounty, Neb., during the Depression through his career in public service as a Nebraska U.S. congressman and governor.
www.unl.edu /e-news/archives/2005/digest.Aug.16.2005.html   (1935 words)

  
 Bush, GOP finalize platform finalize platform: 7/30/00
An Associated Press survey showed that half the delegates were attending their first convention.
A veteran, Charles Thone of Nebraska, was picking up credentials for his 13th, an unbroken string dating to the 1952 gathering in Chicago.
That was four years after the last GOP convention in Philadelphia, when Thomas E. Dewey won his party's nomination but lost the White House.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-00/07-30-00/a01wn008.htm   (979 words)

  
 jorr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Jeffrey L. Orr was appointed to the Commission of Industrial Relations by Governor Charles Thone, in January, 1979.
He served two additional six-year terms at that time, being re-appointed by Governor Thone and then by Governor Kay Orr.
After a brief lapse of service, Judge Orr was appointed by Governor Ben Nelson in February, 1998, and then re-appointed to his current term by Governor Mike Johanns in June, 1999.
www.ncir.ne.gov /jorr.htm   (151 words)

  
 UNL News Releases 02/12/03
It is free and open to the public and parking is provided in the lot south of the building.
The program will honor the late Arthur J. Weaver, a 1896 NU law graduate and governor of Nebraska from 1929 to 1931; Frank Brenner Morrison ('31), governor of Nebraska, 1961-67; Stanley Knapp Hathaway ('50), governor of Wyoming, 1967-75; Charles Thone ('50), governor of Nebraska, 1979-83; and U.S. Sen. E.
Nebraska artist Fred Hoppe will assist in unveiling busts he was commissioned to create in honor of each former governor.
www.unl.edu /pr/2003/0203/021203bnews.html   (369 words)

  
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2005) 4 Jan 1979 - 6 Jan 1983 Charles Thone Rep (b.
1722) 1714 - 17 Mar 1722 Charles Eden (b.
1875) 1 Jan 1849 - 1 Jan 1851 Charles Manly Whg (b.
www.rulers.org /usstat4.html   (7242 words)

  
 Obituaries in the News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Amen coached football at West Point and Wake Forest in the 1950s before returning to Nebraska to begin his banking career.
In 1979, he was appointed state banking director by then-Gov. Charles Thone.
Amen was fired from that position by then-Gov. Bob Kerrey in 1983, soon after the $68 million collapse of Lincoln's Commonwealth Savings Co. More than 6,700 depositors lost money in the failed industrial loan and investment company.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/05/national/a165540D66.DTL&sn=015&sc=596   (903 words)

  
 Jeff Fortenberry - United States Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Other new language opposed "human cloning and research that destroys human embryos or uses fetal tissue from elective abortion."
Former Gov. Charles Thone, Attorney General Jon Bruning and three state senators were among the 32 national convention delegates selected.
Dorwart and state Sen. Adrian Smith of Gering were named to the national platform committee.
www.supportfort.com /6-27-04-NEWS.htm   (454 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Ikemen at Work -- Nov. 24, 1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Last week a second Ike teammate announced he would make the try.
In Lincoln, Neb., former Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton announced he would run for Governor of Nebraska; he will probably face conservative Republican State Chairman Charles Thone in a primary next May. In addition to Mitchell and Seaton, Ike may enlist at least one more candidate.
He has been urging former Defense Secretary Thomas Gates to run for office in Pennsylvania; Gates is undecided.
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,828840,00.html   (182 words)

  
 Document Title   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
William Kloefkorn of Lincoln was named Nebraska's first State Poet by proclamation of Gov. Charles Thone on Sept. 11, 1982.
The selection process for a state poet involved the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities, the governor and the Executive Board of the Legislative Council, plus at-large group of Nebraska citizens and academic advisers.
Girl of my wildest dream, if I wasn't here, where in the name of all that claims to be holy would I be?
info.neded.org /stathand/parttwo/nepoet.html   (424 words)

  
 New Document
Re: Item #1083382---litho pinback, NE GOP Charles Thone, I'm a Thone Button
This lot is a very good condition, lithograph pinback button for one of Nebraska Republican Charles Thone's campaign in Nebraska,
The pin has a little shelf wear that does not detract from its appearance.
www.epier.com /iq.asp?1083382   (259 words)

  
 Political Postcards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Item # Political 1 Charles Thone for Governor Nebraska election ad postcard Good condition Posted
Item # Political 2 John Y. McCollester for Congress Nebraska election ad postcard Good condition Posted
Item # Political 5 Charles Thone - Republican Governor Nebraska election ad postcard Good condition Posted in 1978
members.tripod.com /Verchie/Political.html   (81 words)

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