Burton Hecht

Burton Glaser Hecht (born December 30, 1927) is an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

Hecht was born on December 30, 1927, in New York City. He attended Public School No. 86 and DeWitt Clinton High School. He graduated from New York University and New York University School of Law. He married Isabel M. (1930–2000), and they had three children.

He entered politics as a Democrat.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1963 to 1976, sitting in the 174th, 175th,176th, 177th, 178th, 179th, 180th and 181st New York State Legislatures. He was Chairman of the Committee on Claims in 1967 and 1968; and Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in 1975 and 1976. In November 1976, he was elected to the New York City Civil Court.

In December 1985, Hecht was injured in a car accident on the New York State Thruway while returning from Albany to New York City. The driver of the car, Acting Supreme Court Justice Archie A. Gorfinkel, died from his injuries. Hecht was brought to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, and recovered.

Burton

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Burton (crater)

Burton Crater is an impact crater in the Memnonia quadrangle of Mars, located at 14.1°S latitude and 156.4°W longitude. It is 123.0 km in diameter and was named after Charles E. Burton, and the name was approved in 1973.

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Burton (nut)

'Burton' is a cultivar of hican (nut or tree), a cross between hickory and pecan, species of the genus Carya. The Burton is an edible nut of the hicans; it is considered a shagbark (smaller nuts, higher yielding). Hicans can be both edible or inedible, if the nut is larger but the tree produces far less than a shagbark they are considered shellbarks. A seedling from 'Burton' is commonly called a 'Dooley Burton' it is also an edible hican nut. Burton and Dooley Burton nuts have a unique, yet very pleasing hickory flavor indicative to hickory trees. Of the two Dooley Burton seedlings produce a more noticeable hickory-flavored nut. Hickory-pecan hybrids are often unproductive.

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Wolfpack Hecht

Hecht (English: "Pike") was the name of two "wolfpacks" of German U-boats that operated during World War II. The first operated during the Battle of the Atlantic from 8 May to 18 June 1942. They primarily attacked the Liverpool to Halifax convoys ONS-92 and ONS-100, and sank 14 ships for a total of 62,709 gross register tons (GRT).

A second wolfpack also code-named Hecht (comprising U-352, U-435, and U-455) operated east of Iceland from 27 January to 4 February 1942.

First wolfpack "Hecht'

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From convoy ONS-92

Empire Dell & Llanover

Around 02:00 on 12 May 1942, U-124 fired three torpedoes and hit the 7,065 ton British CAM ship Empire Dell and the 4,959 ton British collier Llanover. The Master, 38 crew and seven RAF personnel from the Empire Dell were rescued before she sank. Two crew members were lost. The badly damaged Llanover was scuttled by HMCS Arvida. Her crew of 46; Master, 39 men, and 6 gunners were rescued.

Hecht (surname)

The surname Hecht comes from house shields (cf. herald) of Jewish communities such as Frankfurt/Main. Yiddish (Hebrew: העכט‎) der hekht means spear, arms. In modern German Der Hecht is the fish known in English as pike.

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