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  First World War.com - Who's Who - William Mitchell
Convinced of the emerging role of aircraft in strategic bombing Mitchell was however frustrated in demonstrating his ideas by the untimely (for him) end of the war in November 1918.
Nevertheless Mitchell's ongoing feuds with senior military personnel ultimately led to his demotion to his former permanent rank of Colonel in April 1925; while not unprecedented the move was widely viewed as a punishment.
Vindicated after his death Mitchell was posthumously promoted and awarded a special medal in his honour by Congress; the latter was presented by the Chief of Staff of the newly established U.S. Air Force to Mitchell's son in 1948.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/mitchell.htm   (704 words)

  
 Mitchell, W.O. (William Ormond)
Mitchell, William Ormond, novelist, dramatist (b at Weyburn, Sask 13 Mar 1914; d at Calgary 25 Feb 1998).
Known and beloved across the country as both a writer and larger-than-life prairie icon, Mitchell was described in a eulogy by broadcaster Rex Murphy as a "lecturer, performer, stage raconteur, friend of a legion of fledgling writers,...
Mitchell spent his childhood in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, but had to move to Florida when he was 12 to aid his recovery from tuberculosis.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005351   (687 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Obituary: Sir William Mitchell
Mitchell's interest in diamonds was stimulated by Ditchburn, who had stepped into a controversial issue over the degree of sparkle that comes from different diamonds.
Mitchell was encouraged by Ditchburn to open new lines of research at Reading, and he soon established a formidable solid state physics group exploring the electronic properties of exotic materials.
It was Mitchell who led the British team that negotiated a partnership with France and Germany to build the special purpose reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, now an international centre of excellence.
education.guardian.co.uk /obituary/story/0,12212,838399,00.html   (886 words)

  
 William Mitchell [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
William Mitchell was born in Inveravon in north Scotland in 1861, the son of a hill farmer.
Mitchell’s views demonstrate cautious materialist and non-doctrinaire realist themes—themes which have more in common with contemporary philosophical work (for example, current work in cognitive science) than with the idealist tradition; views which are also indicative of the region of the world in which he worked.
Mitchell was a near contemporary of the Swiss psychologist Piaget, who argued for an epistemology which was both dynamic and materialist—setting the stage for a later cybernetic approach to epistemology.
www.iep.utm.edu /m/mitchell.htm   (8224 words)

  
 William Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir William Mitchell, University of Adelaide Professor of English Language, Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy, Vice Chancellor, and Chancellor
"William Mitchell" also refers to the law school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, named after the Minnesota Supreme Court Justice.
"William Mitchell" is incorrectly said to be the birth name of the cinema actor Peter Finch as he once used it as an alias.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Mitchell   (217 words)

  
 William Mitchell Family
William Mitchell was one of the first settlers in Dade County, MO. He and Eleanor came to Dade county in 1848, having raised one crop in Greene county in 1847.
William Luthor Mitchell was born on 11 Jun 1828.
William Luthor Mitchell (William) was born on 11 Jun 1828.
www.rootsweb.com /~modade/wm_mitchell.htm   (2630 words)

  
 William Mitchell
William Mitchell, the son of the US Senator for the State of Wisconsin, was born in 1879.
Mitchell remained in the army after the war and was sent as a military observer with the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese War.
Mitchell spent the rest of his life lecturing on subjects such as the future importance of strategic bombing.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWmitchell.htm   (1023 words)

  
 Missouri School of Journalism: Profiles in Success: William Mitchell '48
William Mitchell did not let his service in World War II hinder his education and career goals, and he continues to be grateful for the unexpected adventures he underwent during that delay.
Mitchell left that agency in 1968 to become executive VP and creative director for Wyatt and Williams in Dallas, the Southwest office of a New York-based advertising agency.
Mitchell then was employed as a writer by several agencies until he retired in 1992 at the age of 70.
journalism.missouri.edu /alumni/william-mitchell-48.html   (822 words)

  
 General William Mitchell
William Lendrum Mitchell, born in 1879 in Nice, France, enlisted in the Army as a private in 1898 and served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.
General William Mitchell (AP-114) was launched 31 October 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs.
From 3 March-2p August 1944 General William Mitchell made five round trip transport voyages out of Norfolk and New York to Casablanca and Liverpool, carrying fighting men to the North African theater and participating in the buildup prior to the Allied invasion of Northern France.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g4/general_william_mitchell.htm   (683 words)

  
 WILLIAM MITCHELL Autograph
Mitchell said the loss was the result of "incompetency, criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration of the national defense".
Mitchell believed that air power was vital to national defense and that the Army mistreated the situation, neglecting equipment.
Mitchell's predictions were belatedly heeded, and the separate and fully functioning Army Air Forces (1941) was created during WWII.
www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=2168   (780 words)

  
 William Mitchell Biography | World of Criminal Justice
William Mitchell served as U.S. attorney general from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover.
Mitchell was born on September 9, 1874 in Winona, Minnesota.
Mitchell received the appointment largely due to his performance as solicitor general, with several justices urging Hoover to name Mitchell.
www.bookrags.com /biography/william-mitchell-cri   (511 words)

  
 William Mitchell (physicist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
see also Sir William Mitchell (1861-1962), former professor of Humanities, Vice Chancellor, and Chancellor at the University of Adelaide.
Sir William Mitchell, FRS (1925 – 2002) was a professor of physics at Oxford, and helped pioneer the field of neutron scattering.
Mitchell was also a member of the SEPP Board of Science Advisors.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Mitchell_(physicist)   (113 words)

  
 Medal of Honor Recipients on Film: William Mitchell
Mitchell was essentially awarded the medal posthumously as an apology from the United States Government, after having been court-martialed and his career terminated for being too outspoken an advocate of air power and an independent Air Force.
This prompted Mitchell, from his exile at the infantry corps headquarters, to commit an act not unlike that which had cost President Theodore Roosevelt his own Medal of Honor during the Spanish American War: he committed the unpardonable military sin of criticizing his superiors in the press, in this case accusing them of criminal negligence.
Mitchell was court-martialed in October 1925 for insubordination in a highly publicized trial, with many notable names in the aviation field testifying in his defense, including former wartime subordinates fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker and then-Congressman and future Mayor of New York City Fiorello LaGuardia.
www.voicenet.com /~lpadilla/mitchell.html   (1146 words)

  
 William Mitchell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mitchell received the degree of A.M. from Brown in 1848, and from Harvard in 1860, being also overseer of the latter university for some years, serving as chairman of the committee to visit the observatory in Cambridge.
Miss Mitchell was the guest of Sir John Herschel and Sir George B. Airy during her stay in England, and also visited LeVerrier in Paris and Humboldt in Berlin.
Mitchell received the degree of A. from Harvard in 1867, is a member of the American society of civil engineers, and was chosen to the National academy of sciences in 1885.
www.famousamericans.net /williammitchell1   (972 words)

  
 William Mitchell College of Law - independent law school in St. Paul, Minnesota
William Mitchell College of Law - independent law school in St. Paul, Minnesota
The William Mitchell J.D. A Degree of Practical Wisdom
The Mitchell Mix of students brings breadth and depth to the classroom
www.wmitchell.edu   (124 words)

  
 William J. Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Start the William J. Mitchell article or add a request for it.
Look for William J. Mitchell in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
Check for William J. Mitchell in the deletion log, or visit its deletion vote page if it exists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_J._Mitchell   (165 words)

  
 Wings of Valor - Colonel William Billy Mitchell and his Aerial Armada
Mitchell was privy to a lifestyle without want: education at an Episcopal prep school, learning to ride carefully bred horses on the 400-acre family estate at Meadowmere, polo, and marksmanship.
Mitchell was especially interested in Japan, its military training and weaponry, and particularly the Japanese interest in the budding field of aviation.
Mitchell was elated, not so much in the praise but in the validation of everything he had argued for over the previous year.
www.homeofheroes.com /wings/part1/5_mitchell.html   (11366 words)

  
 Billy Mitchell
Mitchell elected to resign instead as of 1 February 1926 and spent the next decade continuing to write and preach the gospel of airpower to all who would listen.
Mitchell was the first prominent American to espouse publicly a vision of strategic airpower that would dominate future war.
Mitchell's persistent jibes at the Navy were especially nasty, and Hurley argues they not only fostered bitter interservice rivalry but also spurred the Navy to greater efforts in developing carrierbased aviation-the precise opposite of what Mitchell intended.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/mitch.html   (1977 words)

  
 Mitchell Gallery of Flight - General William Mitchell
Mitchell became the youngest Captain in the Army, and was appointed to the General Staff in 1912.
In 1921, Mitchell proved his point when the captured battleship Ostfriesland was sunk with aerial bombs.
Mitchell exemplified the dedicated patriot whose single-minded devotion to a cause would lead him to a degree of recklessness resulting in his downfall.
www.mitchellgallery.org /gen-mitchell/default.asp   (462 words)

  
 William Mitchell and Ellen Cubit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William and Fred met Ellen and sister Alice at the Victoria in Melbourne (This must be Ellis?, but she was 14 when Ellen married?) Fred was engaged to Alice, but she returned his ring and went to Sydney.
William Mitchell established a farm in the Mitta valley, more or less opposte the town of Huon.
William Mitchell seemed interested, in his diary, of having his picture taken during his trip north to near Queensland with his brother Brad.
home.pacific.net.au /~merowley/cubit/ellen.html   (938 words)

  
 Me++ - The MIT Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi--the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception.
Thus, Mitchell proposes, the "trial separation" of bits (the elementary unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over.
"William Mitchell has a rare understanding of the ways in which emerging network culture is changing the social, political, and economic fabric as well as transforming the architecture of cities and the subjects who inhabit them.
mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/item?tid=9895&ttype=2   (575 words)

  
 General Billy Mitchell
William (Billy) Mitchell - a major in the U.S. Army Air-Service soloed in a Curtiss JN4 at the "Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station", a branch of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co., located at Newport News, VA, in the spring of 1917.
William Mitchell, right, and his counsel, Frank R. Reid, Illinois Congressman, at the famous courtmartial in 1926 for his too aggressive advocacy of airpower.
Mitchell was first to voice vigorous views on vulnerability of naval craft to bombs.
www.earlyaviators.com /emitchel.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Gifford Lecture Series - Biography - William Mitchell
William Mitchell, born in the north of Scotland, Inveraveron, and now largely forgotten, was a prolific philosopher in his time.
Mitchell began his career at Adelaide in 1895, becoming Professor of English Language and Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy in 1894, a chair he held until 1922.
He was in many ways ahead of his time, and it is thought that his emphasis on subjective experience in particular has become noteworthy of relevance to philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
www.giffordlectures.org /Author.asp?AuthorID=124   (594 words)

  
 William Mitchell; Inventor of Pop Rocks (washingtonpost.com)
William A. Mitchell, 92, the food scientist who invented Pop Rocks candy and discovered a substitute for tapioca, died July 26 at a care home in Stockton, Calif. He had congestive heart failure.
Mitchell, who worked as a chemist for General Foods Corp. in White Plains, N.Y., for 35 years until his retirement in 1976, held more than 70 patents, including inventions related to Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O Gelatin and the drink mix Tang.
Mitchell, who patented Pop Rocks in 1956, fought to dispel the myth that the carbonated candy was deadly if eaten while drinking carbonated drinks.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A33204-2004Aug1.html   (287 words)

  
 MITRE - About Us - Board of Trustees - Mr. William B. Mitchell
William B. Mitchell is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Curtis Wright Corporation, Primex Technologies, and The Dallas Opera, as well as other community service boards.
Mitchell became vice chairman of Texas Instruments, a position he held until his retirement in December 1996.
Mitchell assumed the additional responsibility for the Information Technology Group in 1989, following his promotion to president of the Defense Systems and Electronics Group in 1984.
www.mitre.org /about/bot/mitchell.html   (329 words)

  
 Maria Mitchell | Astronomer
Maria Mitchell was born August 1, 1818 on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts.
In 1875 Mitchell was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Women.
Mitchell was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/95aug/mitchell.html   (501 words)

  
 The Descendants of William Mitchell
MITCHELL was born 1763 in Ballyroan, Queens, Ireland, and died 1824 in Ballyroan, Queens, Ireland.
William MITCHELL (1787-1880) and his wife, Mary (died in 1865), emigrated from near Stradbally, Queens [now Laoighis], Ireland, probably on "The Brig" which sailed from Dublin to Charlottetown on July 26, 1823.
William was a farmer and by 1861 he and Mary were apparently residing with their daughter, Bridget, and son-in-law, Dennis Kilbride Sr., at Foxley River.
www.islandregister.com /mitchell1.html   (3481 words)

  
 William Mitchell --  Encyclopædia Britannica
He was court-martialed for his outspoken views and did not live to see the fulfillment during World War II of many of his prophecies: strategic bombing, mass airborne operations, and the eclipse of the battleship by the bomb-carrying airplane.
Mitchell, W.O. writer of stories that deal humorously with the hardships of western Canadian prairie life.
Born on Sept. 17, 1907, in St. Paul, Minn., he was on the faculty at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul from 1931 to 1948.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053028   (745 words)

  
 William Mitchell College of Law
William Mitchell College of Law is located in St. Paul, MN.
I went to Mitchell's Open House and I was very surprised by the openness and the warmth of their staff.
US Chief Justice Warren Burger graduated from William Mitchell College of Law and Rosalie Wahl -also a graduate- was the first woman ever to serve in the Minnesota Supreme Court.
www.top-law-schools.com /forums/tls15.html   (335 words)

  
 Mitchell County, KS
Organized in 1870.  County seat, Beloit.  In honor of William D. Mitchell who entered the Union army as a private in Company K, Second Kansas Cavalry; was promoted to Captain in the Second Kentucky Cavalry, and killed March 10, 1865 at Monroe's Cross Road, N. Map and text from
The Special Collections of the Ablah Library at WSU contain historical images of Mitchell County towns: Beloit, Simpson, Tipton, and Waconda Springs.
Mitchell County is one of six counties in the Solomon Valley Highway 24 Heritage Alliance.
skyways.lib.ks.us /counties/MC   (638 words)

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