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Knute Kenneth Rockne
Knute Kenneth Rockne , 1888-1931, American football coach, b. Norway, B.S. Notre Dame, 1914. In 1893 he settled with his parents in Chicago. He excelled at football at Notre Dame and with Gus Dorais scored a sensational upset (1913) of the heavily favored Army team through the use of the forward... Read more |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
Ronald W. Reagan Beginning as a radio sports announcer, Ronald W. Reagan (born 1911) enjoyed success as a motion picture actor and television personality before embarking on a political career. After two terms as governor of California (1967-1975), he defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter for the... Read more |
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John Henninger Reagan
John Henninger Reagan , 1818-1905, American political leader, b. Sevierville, Tenn. He moved to Texas in 1839, became a lawyer, and held several state offices before serving (1857-61) as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reagan, a member of the Texas secession convention of 1861, was... Read more |
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Joan Quigley
QUIGLEY, JOAN 1927- W HIT E HOUSE ASTROLOGER Stranger Than Fiction In Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Landthe president of the world secretly receives advice from an astrologer. In 1988 it was learned that the wife of the... Read more |
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Edwin Meese 3d
Edwin Meese, 3d 1931-, American public official, b. Oakland, Calif. As a deputy district attorney of Alameda co., he was a tough prosecutor with little toleration for radical protest. As a result, Gov. Ronald Reagan appointed him secretary of legal affairs. Meese served as counselor to President... Read more |
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John M. Poindexter
REPORT ON THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR (13 November 1987) In 1985, high-ranking officials in the Ronald Reagan administration began selling arms clandestinely to Iran for its war with America-supported Iraq. The money from these arms sales was laundered in Israel and diverted to the Contras, rebels... Read more |
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Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (1993) Keith Rollins Eakins On March 30, 1981, twenty-five-year-old John W. Hinckley, Jr., lurked in a crowd of people clustering around a Washington, D.C., hotel waiting for President Ronald Reagan to finish delivering a speech. As President Reagan... Read more |
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Regan
Regan ♂, ♀ As a boy's name, this is a transferred use of the Irish surname Re(a)gan (Gaelic Ó Riagáin; see Reagan). The girl's name, however, may at least in part be from the name of one of the three daughters in Shakespeare's King Lear (1605), a most unattractive... Read more |
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Reaganomics
REAGANOMICS REAGANOMICS denotes the economic policies of President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He sought to remedy the high inflation and recessions of the 1970s, which conservatives attributed to the heavy burden government imposed on private enterprise. Reagan called for sharp reductions in... Read more |
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Donald Thomas Regan
Donald Thomas Regan , 1918-2003, U.S. government official and financier, b. Cambridge, Mass. A graduate of Harvard (B.A. 1940), he went to work (1946) at a brokerage house that became Merrill Lynch after serving as a Marine officer in World War II. Regan rose through the company to become its... Read more |
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Reagan, Ronald
...amiable and optimistic, Reagan typically concealed his...Eureka College in 1932, Reagan became a radio sportscaster...his most famous film, Knute Rockne: All American, in which...1940s permanently altered Reagan's life. He almost died... |
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Uncivil liberties. (Ronald Reagan, movie Knute Rockne, All American column)
...the George Gipp played by Ronald Reagan in Knute Rockne, All American--is still alive...George Gipp died, so that coach Knute Rockne could invoke the name of...since he started monitoring Ronald Reagan's campaigning for ... |
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New Book Reveals Unknown Facts About Knute Rockne
...deathbed scene between George Gipp - who's played by, of course, Ronald Reagan - and Pat O'Brien, playing Knute Rockne. RONALD REAGAN, Actor: [excerpt from `Knute Rockne, All American'] Rock? Someday, when the team's up ... |
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Knute Rockne.(PM People)
...for the Gipper." And Rockne asked his team to do just...6. That moment, and Rockne's life story, were...immortalized in the 1940 film "Knute Rockne--All-American" starring...Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as his protege ... |
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You don't have to be a Notre Dame fan--or even a football fan--to believe...
...movie starring Ronald Reagan, George Gipp is one of...dimensional character Reagan portrayed, and deeper...1920. The 1940 movie, Knute Rockne, All-American, which...He quit the next day. Rockne discovered Gipp when Gipp... |
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REAGAN DEDICATES STAMP FOR ROCKNE
...1 COLOR) President Reagan speaks at a ceremony...postage stamp honoring Knute Rockne, the university's...late coaching great, Knute Rockne. Reagan never attended Notre...black and white movie "Knute ... |
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Notre Dame's big play: Reagan to Rockne
Maybe President Reagan doesn't trust the post...centennial of the birth of Knute Rockne. The legendary Irish football...1888, in Voss, Norway. Rockne, at 43, was killed in...Chicago has its 30th annual Knute Rockne Awards ... |
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'Rockne' role made him a star -- and forged his lasting link to Irish
...1940 movie, "Knute Rockne, All American," Ronald Reagan became a major...Gipper." "Knute Rockne did more spiritual...preachers," Reagan said then...legendary hero, Knute Rockne." John ... |
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Rockne - a legend turns 100 // Fabled coach put Irish on football map
...accomplishment. It belongs to Knute Kenneth Rockne, who was born 100 years...ever known. President Reagan, who played George Gipp in the film "Knute Rockne: All-American...introduced Wednesday. Rockne was a native-born ... |
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Winning One for Rockne
...of his birth it was Knute Rockne. Tomorrow, in South Bend, Ind., President Reagan will add his 22 cents...History has already given Rockne his due in Reagan's career as a movie...Gipp in the 1940 film "Knute ... |
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ROCKNE MEMORABILIA TREASURED LEGEND IS STILL ALIVE TO UNION TWP. MAN
...visiting Notre Dame in March when President Reagan visits to commemorate the death of Rockne. Reagan in 1940 played the role of Notre Dame fullback George Gipp in the movie, "Knute Rockne, All American." Pat O'Brien played... |
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