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  Robert A. Lovett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Robert Abercrombie Lovett (14 September 1895 - 7 May 1986) was the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from 1951 to 1953 and in this capacity, directed the Korean War.
The son of a judge, Lovett was born in Huntsville, Texas.
Robert Lovett has been recognized as one of the most capable administrators to hold the office of secretary of defense and as a perceptive critic of defense organization.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_A._Lovett   (1324 words)

  
 YAM September/October 2003 - Flight to Glory
Lovett achieved that most elite of all Yale honors at the time, a tap for membership in Skull and Bones.
Bob Lovett served for a period as a commanding officer at a British aerodrome, within reach of long-range artillery from the front outside Dunkirk.
Lovett had taken the posting to Couderkerque -- attacking U-boat docks that were, he wrote later, "the most dangerous objective there is" with "defenses [that] far exceed anything one could imagine" -- in order to help persuade his superiors to devote U.S. resources to a massive, sustained strategic bombing campaign against Germany.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/03_09/WWI.html   (4101 words)

  
 Abercrombie Family Tree - Person Page 12
By his wife Anne third daughter of Robert Hodgson Equire of Hebburne Co. Durham (buried at All Saints, Newcastle, 22 May 1663).
1374); was a witness to a deed of Robert de Insula dated 41 Edward III and a juror at Corgridge 3 Richard II (ca.1485).
     Robert Lawson was the son of Ralph Fil Thomas Lawesson.
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 Biography Page 1
Robert Lovett was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, and was married in 1845 to Susan Nelson, who was born in 1823.
His parents, William R. and Mollie (Taylor) Lovett, were also natives of this state, the former born in Ashley county and the latter in Union county, and both the Lovett and Taylor families came to Arkansas prior to the Civil War.
Lovett and his wife became the parents of twelve children: John, Evan, Jonas, William, Daniel, Thomas, Nancy, Susan, Mary, Lydia, Hannah and Sarah.
www.usroots.com /~lovitt/bios/bios.html   (3124 words)

  
 YALE'S SKULL & BONES SOCIETY MEMBERS - HiddenMysteries ThE-Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Robert E. Cutler Benjamin Crawford 1926 Cutler Carroll 1854 D'Avanzo Louis A. Daggett Oliver Ellsworth Dahl George 1908 Dalby Michael Thomas 1966 Dale, Jr.
Robert L. Metcalf Harold Grant 1904 Metcalfe Henry Laurens 1849 Metcalfe Orrick 1845 Meyer, Jr.
Robert Willis 1958 Morgan James W. Morgan Robert McNair 1970 Morgenstern Marc Jaime 1976 Morison David Whipple 1888 Morison Samuel Benjamin 1891 Morison Stanford Newel 1892 Morris Edward Dafydd 1849 Morris Luzon 1854 Morris Ray 1901 Morse John Bolt 1934 Morse Samuel Finley Brown 1907 Morse Sidney Nelson 1890 Morton, Jr.
www.hiddenmysteries.org /themagazine/vol8/articles/bushbones.shtml   (2546 words)

  
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At special ceremonies in the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett took the oath for his new position.
Lovett as nominated by President Truman to be acting secretary when General George C. Marshall resigned recently.
Lovett; and Ralph N. Stohl, Director of Administration, Office of the Secretary of Defense, who adminstered the oath.
www.trumanlibrary.org /photographs/view.php?id=18240   (113 words)

  
 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS THESES
Brady, Robert, An appraisal of the Schmidt Hammer as a field tool for the determination of uniaxial compressive strengths and p-wave velocities of rocks.
Rall, Robert D., Stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleotopography of the lower jurassic in the Gilby-Medicine River fields, Alberta.
Roberts, Sheila Marlene, Paleoclimate of Death Valley, California (100-200 ka): a record from cored sediments, homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions in halite, and stable isotopes of fluid inclusions.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/INFO/library/gallagher/deptthesis.html   (7986 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lovejoy to Lowdermilk
Lovett, Evelyn — of Durham, Durham County, N.C. Democrat.
Lovett, Gary — of Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich. Republican.
Lovett, Max — of Cuthbert, Randolph County, Ga. Democrat.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/lovejoy-lowdermilk.html   (1206 words)

  
 Solari Action Network :: View topic - Press Archive on Sporkin, His Role at Fannie Mae, and Fraud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Skadden's team of lawyers is led by Robert Bennett, the Washington lawyer who defended former U.S. President Bill Clinton against allegations of sexual harassment, and Carl Rauh, a former U.S. attorney in Washington, the person said.
Robert M. Crouch, chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association, said the industry has a Fraud Task Force working with the FBI to ``expose these criminals and bring them to justice.''
Robert Zoellick, the current U.S. trade representative, is a former general counsel of Fannie Mae.
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 Chapter 6 - Early Walker County, Texas
Next came Col. John C. Abercrombie, who made a preliminary visit to the Waverly area searching for a suitable location to settle and secure land.
Abercrombie was also from Alabama, having made the trip to Texas on horseback in 1850.
The year 1851 saw the departure from Alabama of Hamlin Lewis, Maxey Lewis, Robert Lindsey Scott, John Elliot Scott, Dr. Townsend, and William Lovett, in addition to many other planters and a great number of slaves, on their way to settle in the Waverly region.
www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/nirvana/621/chapter6.html   (3291 words)

  
 [CTRL] Past and Present Members of the Order of Skull and Bones
Brubaker, James Robert (SandB 1977) Brubaker, John Kim (SandB 1976) Bryan, James Taylor (SandB 1971) Bryan, Jr., L. Thomas (SandB 1955) Buck III, Charles Henry (SandB 1969) - Born 3-7-1946.
Lovett was one of the five or six most powerful men in the United States for nearly 40 years until his death in 1986.
Robert Alphonso Taft (SandB 1910) - Speaker of the House of Representatives (1921-1926) and Senator (R-Ohio) (1938-1950).
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg05807.html   (3162 words)

  
 Music News - Fall 2000
Keen will more than likely be fully clothed Friday, September 20 when he plays at Tipitina's Uptown, along with opening act Robinella and The CC String Band.
Lovett and Keen remained close and when Keen honed his songwriting skills to higher levels, the talented and popular Lovett recorded one of his songs.
With such a diverse background and a broad range of influences, Scofield is adept at playing a variety of genres, including jazz, soul, RandB, rock, and has appealed to jam fans across the country.
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 Eustace Mullins, The World Order, ch 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When Harriman and Otto Kahn were summoned by the ICC in 1897, Lovett advised them to refuse to answer all questions about their stock operations.
Lovett’s son, Robert Abercrombie Lovett married Adele Brown, daughter of a partner of Brown Bros. and became partner in 1926.
It was Lovett who took the then Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, of Dillon Read Co. to Fishers Island to persuade him to change his stand against U.S. Middle Eastern policies.
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 Abercrombie Family Tree - Person Page 28
     Fraser Lovett was the son of (?) Lovett and Agnes C. Nicewonger.
Renae Marie Burk married Robert Donald MacAulay on 6 June 1982 at Carmichael, CA.
     Leslie Erin MacAulay is the daughter of Robert Donald MacAulay and Renae Marie Burk.
www.lgabercrombie.com /p28.htm   (1249 words)

  
 W. Averell Harriman Papers (Library of Congress)
Lovett, John Jay McCloy, Harold Macmillan, Robert S.
The first addition to the Harriman Papers spans the years 1899-1986, with the bulk of the items concentrated from 1969 to 1986.
Taft, Robert A. Box 370 Tally sheets Washington, D.C. Wisconsin politics Miscellany Box 370-371 1956 Campaign.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/harriman.html   (5172 words)

  
 The Central Trust
His daughter, Adele Quartley Brown, married Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Skull and Bones 1918, and a general partner of Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co. (Old Wall St. Firm Flies A New Flag.
Robert W. de Forest, who was a director of the Guaranty Trust-founded Life Extension Institute and a member of the advisory committee of the Institute of Human Relations; and the son-in-law of David B. Ogden of Parsons, Shepard and Ogden, whose partner, John E. Parsons, was the head of Memorial Hospital.
Robert Guthrie Page, whose hometown was given as Madison, Wis., was slapped for Skull and Bones by Frederick McGeorge Bundy.
www.smokershistory.com /Central.htm   (11263 words)

  
 15th AL Infantry Muster Roll, Company "L"
PAUL, Robert, 3rd Lt., 2nd Lt. (enlisted, aged 32; died of disease, 24 May 62
ABERCROMBIE, A. (enlisted, aged 20; died of disease, 29 Aug 62
BONNER, Robert A. (enlisted, aged 18; died of disease, 15 May 62
www.tarleton.edu /~Kjones/15lmstr.html   (1784 words)

  
 Harry Frankel: Capitalism and Democracy (1952)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Secretary of Defense, is indubitably the most important policy and administrative official in the entire governmental structure.
Averell Harriman is possibly second only to Robert Lovett in the strategy planning of the administration.
He is director for Mutual Security, and as such spends most of the remainder of the budget that is left after Lovett gets through with it.
www.marxists.org /archive/braverman/1952/09/democracy.htm   (5032 words)

  
 Presidential Papers, Doc#1716 Secret Diary, 24 January 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
All were present except Bob Lovett, who is suffering from the flu.
The other civilian members are Ben Fairless, Dr. Killian of MIT, and Edward L. Ryerson; on the service side are Admiral Connolly, General Hull and Jimmie Doolittle.
For background on Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Secretary of Defense during the second Truman Administration, see Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, nos.
www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1716.cfm   (448 words)

  
 A century of great railroaders - Railway Age, December 1999
He installed the first Mallet-designed articulated locomotives and the first roller bearings in drive wheels, invented the upper-quadrant semaphore signal, organized the first railroad police force, and wrote a 1922 manual on railroad management.
Robert Abercrombie Lovett (1895-1986) was Undersecretary of State (1947-1949) and Secretary of Defense (1951-1953), and interspersed public service with directorships at Union Pacific (1926-1940; 1953-1986).
Most of his professional life he was a partner with UP's largest single stockholder, Brown Brothers Harriman.
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 [CTRL] Fwd: BONES LIST (ABOUT 97% ACCURATE)
William John Carr 0000 Carlisle James Mandeville 1901 Carlsen Ray Allen 1957 Carlsson Mats Erik 1981 Carpenter George Boone 1902 Carpenter Robert John 1859 Carter Charles Francis 1878 Carter Edwin Osgood 1837 Carter Frederic Dewhurst 1919 Carter Lyon 1915 Carter Walter Frederick 1895 Case George Bowen 1894 Case, Jr.
Robert E. Cutler Benjamin Crawford 1926 Cutler Carroll 1854 D'Avanzo Louis A. Dahl George 1908 Dalby Michael Thomas 1966 Dale, Jr.
Laurence Goizian 1941 Tillinghast Charles 1875 Tilney Thomas Joseph 1870 Tilney II Robert Fingland 1905 Tingey Douglas Stuart 1981 Tinker Anson Phelps 1868 Tom III Chan Bruce 1977 Tompkins Ray 1884 Towers Jonathan David 1982 Townsend George Henry 1908 Townsend James Mulford 1874 Townsend William Kneeland 1871 Townsend, Jr.
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 BatesNow | 3/27/2004 | Jazz pianist, Grammy Award-winning cellist to perform at Bates College
Ray, meanwhile, is known both as a longtime member of Lyle Lovett's band and as a jazzman who has performed with such talents as Gary Burton, Bucky Pizzarelli and Tiger Okoshi.
Friesen is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Brazilian virtuoso Aldo Parisot.
Lyle Lovett's pianist for more than a decade, Tim Ray at the same time has been an active, in-demand jazz artist since 1978.
www.bates.edu /x53284.xml   (453 words)

  
 Truman Library Photograph Search
Title: Robert A. Lovett takes the oath as Secretary of Defense.
Lovett, Adele, Lovett, Robert A. (Robert Abercrombie), 1895-1986, Lovett, Robert, Jr.
The Harry S. Truman Library is one of eleven Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration
www.trumanlibrary.org /photographs/search.php?access=selectbyname&nameid=1348   (52 words)

  
 Lavinia Chilton Abercrombie and Robert Scott Lovett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
She married ROBERT SCOTT LOVETT3 October 29, 1890 in Huntsville, Texas4, son of WILLIAM LOVETT and SUSAN HARDY.
ROBERT AMBERCROMBIE3 LOVETT (LAVANIA CHILTON2 AMBERCROMBIE, LEONARD ANDERSON1)5 was born September 14, 1895 in Huntsville, Walker Co., Texas5, and died May 07, 19866.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States, Volume XXVIII; University Microfilms, A Xerox Company; A. Calculation Based on her probably not being younger than 12 at time of marriage.
genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/print.cgi?abercrombie::1052.html   (258 words)

  
 Bibliography -- WWW
NA Solomon, Robert C. The bully culture: enlightenment, romanticism, and the transcendental pretense, 1750-1850.
Solomon, Robert C. The bully culture: enlightenment, romanticism, and the transcendental pretense, 1750-1850.
Wernaer, Robert M. Romanticism and the Romantic School in Germany.
toisondor.byu.edu /ukhonors/bibliography.html   (8092 words)

  
 United States of America Korean War Commemoration
Consisting of a headquarters and two or more battalions, it was roughly analogous to an American regiment.
Briscoe, Robert Pearce--Named commander of the Seventh U.S. Fleet in January 1952, he succeeded Adm. C. Turner Joy as commander Naval Forces Far East in June 1952, and served in that capacity for the remainder of the Korean War.
Lovett, Robert Abercrombie--Appointed Secretary of Defense after George C. Marshall resigned due to ill health.
korea50.army.mil /history/glossary.shtml   (4049 words)

  
 Membership of Yale's Skull and Bones Society
Gilman Dorr 1945 Blakely Marvin 1977 Blakeslee Henry Clay 1852 Blanchard Jerred Gurley 1939 Blattner Robert William 1976 Bliss Charles Miller 1852 Bliss Robert 1850 Bliss William Root 1850 Blodgett George Reddington 1884 Blue Linden S. Boasberg III James Emanuel 1956 Bockrath, Jr.
William John Carr Carlisle James Mandeville 1901 Carlsen Ray Allen 1957 Carlsson Mats Erik 1981 Carpenter George Boone 1902 Carpenter Robert John 1859 Carter Charles Francis 1878 Carter Edwin Osgood 1837 Carter Frederic Dewhurst 1919 Carter Lyon 1915 Carter Walter Frederick 1895 Case George Bowen 1894 Case, Jr.
Gordon Buckland 1945 Husted James William 1892 Hyatt Robert Underwood 1837 Hyde Alvan Pinney 1845 Hyde Donald R. Hyde Frank Eldridge 1879 Hyde Frederick Walton 1911 Hyde William Waldo 1876 Hyde, Jr.
www.prisonplanet.com /skull_and_bones_membership.html   (2611 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.08.11 - A “BONES-eye-tour” of American imperialism, 1833-1985, follow 6 key Skull & Bones ...
This is the story of the Cheney, Bush, Walker, Lovett, Brown and Harriman families, all multi-generational families in Skull and Bones, from data assembled in leaked membership rosters of Skull and Bones, mostly 1833-1985—though with some other years after this penciled in as well.
Since these two were one year previous in Skull and Bones, '17, meant it was their decision that influenced the pick of Robert Abercrombie Lovett for Skull and Bones the next year.
Lovett in essence becomes a Skull and Bones elite 'attaché' for the federal 'civil' aspects of government for Bones networks, a figurehead so to speak.]
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/08/294472.shtml   (6552 words)

  
 The New York Pops Education
Eileen is very dedicated to music education and pursues this desire through participating as a Teaching Artist with Midori and Friends, Instructor of Brass with the New York Pops Salute to Music program, Instructor of Trumpet at the Bergen Academy of Music and Instructor of Trumpet teaching privately with Musika.
She has recorded with different pop and jazz artists such as Will Downing, Seal and Lyle Lovett on the CBS Morning Show.
Middleton won the First Prize, Best Soloist and Best Arrangement awards at the 13th Europe Jazz Contest in 1991 and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Performance Grant in 1996 and grants from the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals in 1992, 1993 and 2003.
www.newyorkpops.org /html/ed-salute_to_music.html   (3226 words)

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