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Oral History Interview with L. E. Robinson
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral monologue by L E Robinson. As a member of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, Robinson recounts that many Raiders suffered broken limbs while practicing landings in the rough sea amidst coral reef. He details the makeup of the battalion and the key strategies that led to its many successes, beginning with a raid on Makin Atoll. After the landing on Guadalcanal, he was transferred to the 4th Marine Division as chief of the intelligence section. In Saipan, Jumping Joe Chambers brought Evans F. Carlson to work beside Robinson as an observer. Together they led the fifth and final assault on Hill 500, with Carlson selflessly giving aid to a wounded radioman while under fire. At Tinian, Robinson’s scouts reported that a 2,500-man banzai attack was imminent. Chambers, having stockpiled over 60 machine guns, placed every man, from clerks to cooks, behind a trigger. Afterward, Robinson observed families jumping off of cliffs as Marines wept in despair, only to see it happen again on Tinian. When Robinson returned to the States, he was diagnosed with toxic fever blood poisoning and lymph gland poisoning, weighing only 108 pounds at six-and-a-half feet tall. He was declared unfit for combat and became an instructor in the Troop Leaders Training College. After discharge, Robinson attended school on the GI Bill and enjoyed a career as a research scientist
L. W. Robinson
No full text"SX25123 Lieut. L.W. Robinson 27 Bn A.I.F. S.A. Scottish Re[g] 1941-1943 Winnelle and 49 1/2 Mile".SX25123 Lieutenant L.W. Robinson. 27 Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces. South Australian Scottish Regiment. 1941-1943. Winnelle and 49 1/2 Mile
Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics
No full textDaniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency
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Letter from Andrew Robinson to Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., July 24, 1990
No full textRobinson thanks Bennett for his affirmative reply and requests a photo of Kober.Classic
[Amnesty Letter] ID220 / Robinson, James L.
No full textThis letter was written by James L. Robinson to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Macon Co., NC and states his occupation as Merchant
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Letter from Andrew Robinson to Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., January 3, 1990
No full textRobinson invites Bennett to an advisory role on a planned show covering the decipherment of Linear B.Classic
Joseph Taylor Robinson appointment book, 1935
No full textThis collection contains a 1935 National Blank Book Company appointment book used by Joe T. Robinson while serving as a United States Senator from Arkansas. The National Blank Book Company was known for the manufacture of high-end stationary and other paper-related merchandise. The appointment book includes sporadic entries for the year of 1935. Most of the entries record luncheon or dinner engagements in Washington, D.C.; however, an occasional White House convention or personal party is recorded.; Notable figures mentioned include Senator Charles L. McNary, Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, Admiral Cary Traverse Grayson, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.Joseph Taylor Robinson appointment book, 193
Gregory L. Robinson
No full textMr. Gregory L. Robinson is Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs, NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD). He is responsible for assessing NASA programs, projects and institutions for technical and cost effectiveness, quality, and performance. He also coordinates program and project content with the other NASA Mission Directorates, and federal agencies in which SMD has partnerships. SMD has a portfolio of 97 missions in formulation, development, and operations.
Mr. Robinson served as Deputy Center Director at NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center (GRC), Cleveland Ohio. Mr. Robinson was responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling the effective accomplishment of all missions assigned to the Center. GRC is engaged in a diverse program of research, technology advancement, and project management related to aeronautical propulsion, space power propulsion, cryogenic fluids, microgravity science, expendable launch vehicles, space communications, materials, structures, instrumentation and controls, computational fluid dynamics, and electronics.
Mr. Robinson served as NASA Deputy Chief Engineer (2005-2013); He had primary responsibility and authority for oversight of Agency engineering work, including the design, manufacture, testing, operation, training, and maintenance practices and products. Additionally, he provided policy for and oversight of the readiness and execution of all NASA programs to ensure development efforts and mission operations were planned and conducted with sound engineering and proper programmatic controls.
Mr. Robinson served as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acting National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Deputy Assistant Administrator, Systems (2011-2012). He led the acquisition, and management of all NOAA satellite flight and ground acquisitions.
Prior to Mr. Robinson’s reassignment to NASA Headquarters in 1999, he spent 11 years in various leadership positions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Among his time with NASA, Mr. Robinson has received numerous individual and group performance awards, including the Presidential Rank, Distinguished Executive; and Meritorious Senior Professionals and Executives Award.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Math from Virginia Union University; a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University; and a Master of Business Administration from Averett College. He also attended Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Senior Executive Fellows Program; and the Federal Executive Institute (Leadership for a Democratic Society).
Mr. Robinson is a native of Danville, Virginia. He and his wife, Cynthia reside in Manassas, VA, and have three adult daughters.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2018/1068/thumbnail.jp
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Email chain from Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. to Andrew Robinson, September 11, 1999
No full textTwo emails, one from Bennett and Robinson's reply, on Bennett's computer trouble and a humorous anecdote about his publication of the Pylos Linear B tablets. Printed on the back of the last page of an anonymous curriculum vitae.Classic
Joan Robinson and 'Reswitching'
No full textThe attitude of Joan Robinson to reswiching remains an intriguing and incomplete puzzle
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