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Jack French Kemp
Jack French Kemp 1935-, American politician and government official, b. Los Angeles. He played football while at Occidental College (grad. 1957) and thereafter was a professional quarterback for 13 seasons (1957-69), primarily with the San Diego Chargers and the Buffalo Bills. While a player, he... Read more |
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John Kemp
Kemp, John (d. 1454). Archbishop of York and Canterbury. Like Chichele, Kemp was an Oxford DCL who began his career in church courts, becoming dean of Arches in 1414. After an embassy to Aragon, he was a member of Henry V's council in France, as chancellor of Normandy and keeper of the privy... Read more |
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Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe , d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. She was the wife of a prominent citizen and the mother of 14 children. Her autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe (complete ed. 1940; ed. with modern spelling 1944), was known only in small excerpts until 1934, when... Read more |
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Scott Memorial
Scott Memorial (Edinburgh). This tribute to the Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott dominates Princes Street, despite being described by Ruskin as ‘a small vulgar Gothic steeple on the ground’. The design of water-colourist and self-taught architect George Meikle Kemp, it was... Read more |
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Bob Dole
Bob Dole (Robert Joseph Dole), 1923-, American political leader, b. Russell, Kan.; husband of Elizabeth Hanford Dole . While serving in World War II, he was seriously wounded and required several years of convalescence. After obtaining his law degree from Washburn Univ. (1952), he worked as a... Read more |
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Kings Lynn
King's Lynn town (1991 pop. 37,323), Norfolk, E England, on the Great Ouse River near its influx into The Wash, an inlet of the North Sea. Its large harbor serves foreign as well as coastal trade and is the base for a fishing fleet. A farm market, King's Lynn is a center for fertilizer production,... Read more |
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George Stubbs
George Stubbs 1724-1806, English painter known for his studies of horses. Self-taught, Stubbs was interested in comparative anatomy and published his Anatomy of the Horse (1766), which is still admired for its accuracy and elegance. It gained him a first-rate career as a painter to the English... Read more |
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Kempy
Kempy (1922), a comedy by J. C. and Elliott Nugent. [Belmont Theatre, 212 perf.] James Kemp ( Elliott Nugent), who is known as “Kempy,” is a somewhat naïve and pliable plumber who dreams of becoming an architect. Coming to fix a leaky pipe in the house of his fiancée, Ruth... Read more |
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James Addison Baker 3d
James Addison Baker, 3d 1930-, U.S. political leader, b. Houston, Tex. After graduating from Princeton Univ., he served in the U.S. Marines and earned a law degree from the Univ. of Texas. A successful corporate lawyer, he switched from the Democratic to the Republican party in 1970 and served... Read more |
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Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon , 1758-1837, American political leader, b. near the present Warrenton, N.C. He served in the American Revolution and later became a political figure in North Carolina and an ardent champion of states' rights. He opposed the U.S. Constitution because he thought it gave too much power... Read more |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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DOLE HAILS KEMP AS TEAMMATE MAKES CHOICE FOR VP OFFICIAL
...his decision to tap Jack F. Kemp, a longtime...metaphor, Dole said: "Jack Kemp and I are going...gently, "What ever happened to Jack Kemp?" Kemp, who...going to love the ... |
 "Hannity & Colmes (FOX News)")
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Jack Kemp Recalls Working with Reagan
...with us.JACK KEMP, FORMER HUD SECRETARY...Reagan family?KEMP: Well, we were...memorable for the Kemps and the Kemp family.COLMES...there when John F.Kennedy went...HANNITY: Hi, Jack, welcome back...know, two ... |
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Jack Kemp & the Whole Nine Yards; The '96 Hopeful, Chewing the Fat and...
...let it be said about Jack Kemp that he can't talk...Soon, however, it was Kemp who was choking - something...the unthinkable had happened, someone at the table...olds shouting, "Go, Jack, go!" and "Kemp...than it was when we ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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ONCE SEEN AS STRONG, KEMP SLIPS IN IOWA
...On paper, Rep. Jack Kemp should be the darling...the question: What happened to Kemp? Scott Reed...Washingtoon." Kemp was the prototype...the predicate for Kemp's candidacy was...columnists such as William ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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SOME REPUBLICANS WANT KEMP AS QUARTERBACK.(Main)
...Dowd New York Times Jack Kemp rarely ran the ball...legislators wrote. "Jack Kemp is the man to...Obviously, this has only happened because Bush allowed...begin listening to Jack Kemp." Sununu...Secretary ... |
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KEMP REALIGNS NEW YORK HUD OFFICE PUERTO RICO REMOVED FROM ITS PURVIEW.(Local)
...Times Housing Secretary Jack F. Kemp has decided to remove Puerto...Reagan administration. Kemp, who is expected to announce...second major change that Kemp has made in the New York...smelly things appear to have happened ... |
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Kemp Gets Push For Treasury Job
...president's men they had to name Jack F. Kemp as secretary of the treasury to...substitution of Housing Secretary Kemp for Nicholas F. Brady at Treasury is imperative...they testified about what really happened to American ... |
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GOP SPIRITS RIDING HIGH FOR OPENING NIGHT
...Center. Dole and running mate Jack F. Kemp brought an air of excitement to...Elizabeth.' " Dole also said he and Kemp are resolving their differences...teach your children: Dole and Kemp. This is what's happened over the ... |
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President Duke Twenty years after Michael Dukakis came so close to taking the...
...stop was a considerable distance from the John F. Kennedy museum and library. Four Republican...the train first, followed by former president Jack Kemp, who'd succeeded Dukakis in 1996. Kemp came down the stairs with Dick Gephardt, whom... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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CONVENTION NOTEBOOK.(FRONT)
...and Gov. George F. Allen literally passed the test. It all happened close to midnight...pleased to do what Jack Kemp did on so many occasions...Dole's choice of Jack Kemp as a running...football player. Since ... |
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