What finally persuaded Congress was Chicago banker Lyman Gage who raised several million additional dollars in a 24-hour period, over and above New York's final offer.

Her high school teacher of English and German persuaded her to attend the University of Chicago, which she entered in 1906 on a one-year scholarship.

Shachtman was persuaded by Martin Abern to move to Chicago to become an organizer for the Communist youth organization and edit the Young Worker.

Composed mainly between February 1910 and July or August 1911, the poem was first published in Chicago in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, after Ezra Pound, the magazine's foreign editor, persuaded Harriet Monroe, its founder, that Eliot was unique: " He has actually trained himself AND modernized himself ON HIS OWN.

Peck persuaded many Chicago business tycoons to go on board with him, including Marshall Field, Edson Keith, Martin Ryerson, and George Pullman.

Siegel persuaded his longtime friend and business associate Meyer Lansky to help him sell New York and Chicago crime bosses on investing in this project.

He decided to line up Chicago restaurants to participate and persuaded then Mayor Jane Byrne and Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg to block off Michigan Avenue for the first Taste of Chicago on July 4, 1980.

After another bid by Chicago insurance executive and future A's owner Charlie Finley failed, Autry was persuaded to make a bid himself.

Later, Callahan persuaded Siskind to join him as part of the faculty of the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago ( founded by László Moholy-Nagy as the New Bauhaus ).

He started out as a newspaper reporter while a teenager and worked on Republican congressman Robert Hawley's successful 1896 campaign, but his father persuaded him to move to Chicago to try an advertising position at Lord & Thomas advertising agency, which he did in 1898.

While at Dartmouth, Edwin Brant Frost persuaded Fox to pursue a career in astronomy, and in 1903 Fox became a Carnegie Research Assistant at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago.

of A & R, Dr. George Butler, persuaded him to sign with that label.

Deeds and G. Rentschler persuaded the board of Niles Bement Pond that their Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool subsidiary of Hartford, Connecticut, should provide the funding and location to build a new aircraft engine being developed by Rentschler, George J. Mead, and colleagues, all formerly of Wright Aeronautical.

In late January, unable to obtain funds from his superiors, Dake went to San Francisco where he persuaded the Wells, Fargo & Co. to loan him $ 3000, assuring them that the Department of Justice would honor the loan.

After leaving school he was persuaded to follow in his father's footsteps, and commenced work as a clerk at a firm of solicitors in Bury St Edmunds called Greene & Greene, and took up amateur acting in his spare time.

In the early 1980s he was persuaded by Carl Grefenstette to perform and record again with the Pittsburgh R & B revival band, The Flashcats, who had been playing his songs, and to record the album Moosemania!

They persuaded Bob Herbert to set up a showcase performance for the group in front of industry writers, producers and A & R men in December 1994 at the Nomis Studios in Shepherds Bush where they received an " overwhelmingly positive " reaction. Melanie Brown performing in 2007 with the Spice Girls Due to the large interest in the group, the Herberts quickly set about creating a binding contract for the group.

Alistair McAlpine persuaded Marks & Spencer to open early at 8: 00 a. m. so those who had lost their clothes in the bombing could get new ones.

Although it is sometimes thought that those higher in self-esteem are less easily persuaded, there is some evidence that the relationship between self-esteem and persuasibility is actually curvilinear, with people of moderate self-esteem being more easily persuaded than both those of high and low self-esteem levels ( Rhodes & Woods, 1992 ).

They were persuaded to turn professional by their new manager, Morris ‘ Zip ’ Fassner ( later Shufflebottom ) and embarked on a world tour before once more returning to the Clog & Bells and rejoining their local league.

Not wanting to be labeled a Christian band, the rest of the band was unwilling, but as Ted recalls, A & R Bill Power and Adam persuaded them that " T & N was not really a Christian label, but really belonged in the same category as us ; they were Christians who ran a label, not a Christian record label.

Charles Francis Greville, invited seven Quaker families from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard to settle in the new town and develop a whaling fleet, In 1800, following the bankruptcy of the shipbuilding contractor Jacobs & Sons, who had established their shipyard there in 1797, he persuaded the Navy Board's overseer, Jean-Louis Barralier, to lease the site for the Navy Board and develop a dockyard for building warships.

In November, the group persuaded their managers — father-and-son team Bob and Chris Herbert — to set up a showcase performance in front of industry writers, producers and A & R men at the Nomis Studios in Shepherd's Bush where they received an " overwhelmingly positive " reaction.

In December 1994, the Spice Girls persuaded their former managers — father-and-son team Bob and Chris Herbert — to set up a showcase in front of industry writers, producers and A & R men at the Nomis Studios in Shepherd's Bush, London.

In November, the group — now named " Spice "— persuaded their managers to set up a showcase in front of industry writers, producers, and A & R men at the Nomis Studios in Shepherd's Bush, London.

Furthermore, when people are exposed to a persuasive message followed by a discounting cue, people tend to be more persuaded over time ; this is referred to as the sleeper effect ( Hovland & Weiss, 1951 ; Cook & Flay, 1978 ).

He became a correspondent of Thomas Jones, who brought him into contact with the instrument maker Edward Troughton and also persuaded him to join the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce.

It was here that she was spotted by one of her customers, producer of Coronation Street, Harry Kershaw, who persuaded her to audition for the role of Hilda Ogden in 1964 ; she eventually had to turn the role down as she was tied into an advertising contract with Procter & Gamble and they refused to release her.

In 1934, Hubbard served as the line coach at Texas A & M, but he was persuaded to return to the field after only one year of college ball, going back to Green Bay for the 1935 season.

George had been persuaded by Scott that he was not only a Stuart prince, but also a Jacobite Highlander, and could rightly and properly swathe himself in " the garb of old Gaul < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >", so in July 1822 the King placed his order with George Hunter & Co., outfitters of Tokenhouse Yard, London and Princes Street, Edinburgh, for £ 1, 354 18s ( a sum equivalent to £ today ) worth of highland outfit in bright red Royal Tartan, later known as Royal Stuart, complete with gold chains and assorted weaponry including dirk, sword and pistols.

In 1929 he wrote, “ The beauty and grandeur of this form in motion has to be developed in such a way that it becomes self-sufficient without the use of words .” The inherent beauty & depth of Tagore's songs have persuaded a number of filmmakers to use Tagore ’ s songs in their films including Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Nitin Bose, Tapan Sinha and Kumar Shahani. His songs were also used in British, European & Australian movies just to capture the mood of a cinematic situation & to reveal a delicate interplay of relationships.

The Ottoman naval recovery persuaded Venice to sign a peace treaty in 1573, and the Ottomans were able to expand and consolidate their position in North Africa.

The Unification Church in 2001 persuaded the North Korean government to relax its restrictions and permit Pyeonghwa Motors, a South Korean automaker with ties to the Church, to assemble cars in the DPRK and advertise them to North Koreans.

The fort is named Fort Dobbs in honor of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.

As the ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin not only secured the " bridge loan " for the national budget, but also he persuaded France to send an army of about 6, 000 soldiers across the Atlantic Ocean to America — and also the dispatch of large squadron of French warships under Comte de Grasse to the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina.

Robert Morris, the Minister of Finance, persuaded Congress set up the Bank of North America, in 1782.

One year prior to his special instructions to Lewis, Jefferson had persuaded a visiting delegation of North American Indian Chieftains to be vaccinated with kinepox during the winter of 1801-2.

When tuberculosis hit the new town, the Mechanics ’ Institute persuaded the industrial pioneers of North Wiltshire to agree that the railway's former employees should continue to receive medical attention from the doctors of GWR Medical Society Fund, which the Institute had played a role in establishing and funding .< ref > Background – New Mechanics Institution Preservation Society.

He also persuaded Truman to dispatch aid and advisors to French forces in Indochina, though in 1968 he finally counseled President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam.

During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open.

George Frederick Bollinger persuaded 20 other families to leave North Carolina in the fall of 1799 and settle in a region immediately west of what is now Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

The resulting " Give Swordfish a Break " promotion was wildly successful, with 750 prominent U. S. chefs agreeing to remove North Atlantic swordfish from their menus, and also persuaded many supermarkets and consumers across the country.

They carfully ascertained the dispositions of the inhabitants of the Alpujarras, where the best stand could be made against the royal forces, solicited aid from the kings of North Africa, and persuaded the local bandits to embrace their cause.

His peers at the Bar persuaded him there was no better way to improve his oratory and achieve better rhetoric than to become a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, which thrives on " talk ".

Mathieson persuaded the federal government to agree to an amendment to the British North America Act guaranteeing the province a minimum of four MPs in perpetuity.

Sharpe intended to will the property to John Hurst, his longtime hunting guide and friend, but Hurst persuaded him to donate it to the North Carolina Teachers Association, an organization of African American teachers.

Oh Kil-nam explained, that Yun persuaded him to relocate to North Korea with his family.

In 1898, Schurman persuaded the State Legislature to found the first forestry college in North America, the New York State College of Forestry.

During Rice's nine-hour-long interrogation, she expressed confidence that Iraq could regain stability and independence, expressed disgust for the reports of torture by guards at the Abu Ghraib prison but did not mention banning any of forms of torture, and expressed confidence that North Korea could be persuaded by its neighbors to give up its nuclear weapons program.

It was there that he met Frederick North, who persuaded Cockerell and Foster to accompany him to Egypt, setting off in late 1811, they travelled via Crete, where North abandoned the idea, so Cockerell and Foster decided to visit the Seven churches of Asia and visit Hellenistic sites along the way, the itinerary was: Smyrna, Pergamon, Sardis, Ephesus, Priene and Side.

After he was laid off there when the company folded in 1916, he was persuaded to undertake a contract to renovate streetcars for the Southern Public Utilities Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, using Southern's former facilities and many of its employees.

Monis finally persuaded Harvard to import Hebrew type from London, and in 1735, with a loan from Harvard, Bostonian Jonas Green published a thousand copies of the textbook, the first Hebrew textbook printed in North America.