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  • Mr. Speiser proved that the independent private detective, Vincent Gillen, had acted directly on behalf of GM and used Gillen's testimony to that effect against his employer.

    Stuart M. Speiser, attorney for Ralph Nader in GM lawsuit, dies at 87 T. Rees Shapiro 2010

  • A lot of that credit goes to Gillen's acting as he made the audience believe that he was the man for Baltimore.

    Big name for Littlefinger Adam Whitehead 2010

  • Â I've read some reviews that aren't that impressed with Gillen's writing, which is odd, because his dialogue is spot-on and he doesn't overwrite, allowing McKelvie's dramatic and underrated art to tell the story, which is what a comic ought to do, right?

    My best comics of the year lists (I’m going to assume you care) | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Ranked 16 of 19 weeks during the season and as high as sixth, coach Pete Gillen's squad stumbled during the last three weeks and finished 17-12.

    NCAA Men's Basketball - South Carolina vs. Virginia 2002

  • Tom Gillen's sense of duty to his country and love of flying brought him to

    Gillen, Thomas E. 1991

  • Gillen's spirits lifted only when his son and daughoer returned to the farm from the boarding schools they attended in Portsmouth, the commonwealth capital.

    A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988

  • [10] The Golden Bough i, 85 -- with reference to Spencer and Gillen's Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 179, 189.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • From Gillen's hairdresser's window a composite portrait shows him gallant Nelson's image.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • As regards the promiscuity question, Spencer and Gillen's observations go far to confirm some of the seemingly fantastic speculations regarding "a thousand miles of wives," and so on, contained in the volume of Fison and Howitt [166] and to make it probable that unregulated intercourse was the state of primitive man at a stage of evolution earlier than any known to us now.

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • Spencer and Gillen's admirable volume also contains pictures of "young women" who look twice their age.

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

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