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In this role, it was reported that by 2019, Kim Shin oversaw the distribution of around ₩42 billion ($36,000,000) to various organizations in order to promote Korea–US ties and publicize information about the Korean independence movement.
The seneschal administered the coronation ceremony, oversaw the Haute Cour in the king's absence, administered royal castles, and managed the royal finances and revenue. The seneschal's power was over only viscounts and not castellans, and the constable was still superior to the seneschal due in part to the kingdom's constant state of war. [ 3 ]
Florence Shoemaker Thompson, of Daviess County, Kentucky, was the first female sheriff to carry out an execution, and oversaw the hanging of Rainey Bethea in 1936, which was the last public execution in American history. Andrea Seastrand succeeded her husband Eric Seastrand as the member of the California State Assembly for the 29th district in ...
My own first pick: Gen. Gavin. I started my process as a proponent for Gen. “Jumping” Jim Gavin, a World War II airborne icon, as the namesake for the post.
As leader of the cartel, Cardenas Guillen oversaw a drug trafficking empire responsible for exporting massive quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States from Mexico.
The Army general credited with fixing the response to Hurricane Katrina is bashing President Trump’s response to the devastation in Puerto Rico.
The domesticus provided defined leadership in the military as officers; oversaw individual households and lands to protect common civilians and servants; and served as palace troops assigned to the emperor himself—all to prevent further crises in the future and transitioning into later periods of the Roman Empire.
“There was often no intent on the part of the governments to comply — and there was often no intent on the part of the bank’s management to enforce,” said Navin Rai, a former World Bank official who oversaw the bank’s protections for indigenous peoples from 2000 to 2012. “That was how the game was played.”