Pierre Messmer
Pierre Messmer , 1916-, French political leader. In World War II he fought with the Free French forces before joining General de Gaulle 's staff. After the war, he held several overseas posts. A devoted supporter of de Gaulle, he served (1960-69) as minister of defense until de Gaulle's resignation as president. In 1971 he became minister of overseas departments and territories. In 1972, President Pompidou appointed him to replace Jacques Chaban-Delmas as premier. He was succeeded in 1974 by Jacques Chirac, but continued as member of the national assembly until 1988.
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Optimistic evolutionists: the progressive science and religion of Joseph LeConte, Henry Ward Beecher, and Lyman Abbott.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...1823-1901), Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), and Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). Although each has been the subject...responses to evolution. The cases of LeConte, Beecher, and Abbott exemplify this mode. Importantly, their theological...
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OBIT - CROSS, Olivia Abbott
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 10/30/2009; 358 words
; Mrs. Olivia Abbott Cross, of 8907 Potts Creek Road, Covington, Va., died...1925, in Baltimore, Md., the daughter of the late Lyman Sinclair Abbott and Helen Sederburg Abbott. A resident of this community for 20 years, she was a...
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Westhill 3, St. Joseph 0 SCC Amity 5, Foran 0 Lyman Hall at Career, ppd. to Oct. 8, 3:30 [Derived Headline]
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 9/12/2007; ; 568 words
; ...Joseph 0 SCC Amity 5, Foran 0 Lyman Hall at Career, ppd. to...m. GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL CSC Abbott Tech 3, O'Brien Tech 0 Kaynor Tech 3, Platt Tech 2 SCC Lyman Hall 3, Sacred Heart Academy...Non-league Holy Cross 98 Lyman Hall 76
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Entitles: Booker T. Washington's signs of play.(Up From Slavery)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...first few pages of what was to become Up From Slavery, Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook magazine (which was planning...any education, any work to do before emancipation? (Abbott 159) With a polite but crushing assessment of the profound...
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FOR THE RECORD.(Vitals)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 2/26/2005; 700+ words
; Byline: The Register-Guard Deaths Abbott - Lyman Abbott, 85, of Eugene, died Feb. 15. England's Eugene Memorial Chapel in charge of arrangements. Bauer - Leona Caroline Bauer, 91, of Eugene, died Feb. 24. Musgrove Family Mortuary...
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Autobiography of Norman Wallace Lermond, Maine's Naturalist/Socialist
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...example, William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett Hale, Dr. Carlos de la Torre,3 Rev. Lyman Abbott,4 Jacob Abbott,5 Harriet Beecher Stowe ... and others. " The appearance of this book is eagerly awaited by us all. The...
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Ruth B. Ray Chapman
Newspaper article from: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.; 6/14/2007; 399 words
; ...a daughter of the late John Q. and Winnibel Wormwood Abbott. She graduated from Edward Little High School, Class...husband, Kendrick J. Chapman; two brothers, Guy and Lyman Abbott; and two sisters, Marguerite Ames and Evelyn Rich...
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The myth of America as a Christian nation.(Head and Heart: American Christianities)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...long excerpts from key documents. He profiles scores of religious figures, such as Dwight Moody, John Nelson Darby, Lyman Abbott, Billy Sunday, Fr. Charles Coughlin, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. But in shoveling...
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The scholarship of service: Student project aids local food bank
Magazine article from: Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Early in the 20th century, Lyman Abbott, an English clergyman and editor, observed that American universities consider scholarship "equipment for service" (Rudolph...
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Serving those who serve for three-quarters of a century
Magazine article from: The Officer; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...with an army of 42,189,000 men, caused only 15,405,000 casualties among the Germans." The prophetic words of Lyman Abbott, member of the Chaplain Corps and the Reserve Officers Association, were fulfilled. In 1914 he had warned: "A self...
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Lyman Abbott
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Lyman Abbott Lyman Abbott (1835-1922) was American Protestantism's foremost interpreter...suppression of wartime dissent. Further Reading Ira V. Brown, Lyman Abbott (1953), is a fine biography. Abbott's own Reminiscences (1916...
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Abbott, Lyman 1835-1922
Book article from: American Decades
ABBOTT, LYMAN 1835-1922 Congregational minister, writer...editor Outlook As the 1910s opened, Lyman Abbott was seventy-five years old and had already...topics of the turn of the century. Under Abbott's direction Outlook had grown from a...
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Abbott, Lyman
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Abbott, Lyman (1835–1922), son of Jacob Abbott, was the successor of Henry Ward Beecher both in the pulpit of his Plymouth Church (Congregational) in Brooklyn and as editor of The Outlook (originally The Christian Union ). He...
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Henry Ward Beecher
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Ward Beecher, the fourth son of Lyman Beecher (whose mantle, reputation...Henry Ward Beecher (1888), and Lyman Abbott, Henry Ward Beecher (1903). William...Beecher (1927). Additional Sources Abbott, Lyman, Henry Ward Beecher, New...
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The 1900s: Religion: Publications
Book article from: American Decades
...Boston: Little, Brown, 1906); Lyman Abbott, The Great Companion (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1904); Abbott, The Life and Literature of the...Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901); Abbott, The Other Room (New York: Macmillan...
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