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Quartered arms of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, KG Coat of arms of William Cecil as found in John Gerard's The herball or Generall historie of plantes (1597). William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High ...
William A. V. Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
William Cecil may refer to: Lord William Cecil (courtier) (1854–1943), British royal courtier; Lord William Cecil (bishop) (1863–1936), Bishop of Exeter, 1916–1936; William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598), English politician and advisor to Elizabeth I; William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter (1566–1640), Knight of the Garter
The federal government had a highly professional Office of Education; Roosevelt cut its budget and staff, and refused to consult with its leader John Ward Studebaker. [168] The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) programs were deliberately designed to not teach skills that would put them in competition with unemployed union members.
Government support for the development of science and public education through a public 'common' school system and investments in creative research through grants and subsidies. Rejection of class struggle, in favor of the "Harmony of Interests" between: owners and workers, farmers and manufacturers, the wealthy class and the working class. [19]
Cecil (created Earl of Salisbury in 1605) was the younger son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley by his second wife, Mildred Cooke, eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea, Essex. His elder half-brother was Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and philosopher Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, was his first cousin. [2]
The commission consisted of 18 members, drawn from the private sector, government, and education. The chair of the commission was David Pierpont Gardner. [2] Secretary of Education Terrel Bell sought to have the president appoint the commission. Reagan disagreed and it was Bell who established the commission and appointed its members.
Vannevar Bush, director of the office of scientific research and development for the U.S. government, wrote in July 1945 that "science is a proper concern of government" [15] This report led to the creation of the National Science Foundation in 1950 to support civilian scientific research.