I was more of the pop culture, pop radio things, and it's always been more of a favourite of mine than the early blues stuff-even though I love John Lee Hooker and all those people.

Owner Ernie Tannen installed Jim Hooker, later to become a successful radio sales trainer, as the general manager.

Although Johnson was to call for a complete edition of Dennis ’ works, this was not undertaken until 1938 ( Edward Niles Hooker, The Critical Works of John Dennis ( Baltimore, 1938 ).

But a near-fatal accident with Britannia G-ALRX in February 1954 due to a spur gear failure prompted a telephone call from his old boss Hives, who subsequently sent his top team of Rolls-Royce jet engineers, composed of Elliott, Rubbra, Lovesey, Lombard, Howarth and Davies, to give Hooker some desperately needed help.

After releasing a well-received album by free jazz drummer William Hooker, Joerg convinced a reluctant Homestead to sign notable jazz musician David S. Ware and his Quartet.

Lincoln brought in Joseph Hooker, despite his record of loose talk about the need for a military dictatorship.

Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May, but continued to command his troops for some weeks.

During the summer of 1943 – 44, he played for tips at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

A prominent case can be seen in the Love Canal Homeowner ’ s association ( LCHA ); in this case a housing development was built on a site that had been used for toxic dumping by the Hooker Chemical Company.

Earlier names for this order include the Coronarieae of the Bentham & Hooker system.

Early support for Darwin's ideas came from the findings of field naturalists studying biogeography and ecology, including Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1860, and Asa Gray in 1862.

He accepted only when it was made clear to him that McClellan would be replaced in any event and that an alternative choice for command was Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, whom Burnside disliked and distrusted.

This name was used in several systems, for example the Bentham & Hooker system and the Engler system, although the Wettstein system preferred the name Diospyrales '.

In nineteenth century works such as the of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and the of George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker this word was used for what now is given the rank of family.

She is best known for her best-selling memoir The Happy Hooker: My Own Story ( 1971 ).

Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago, to teach him “ the big con .” Unfortunately, their victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan.

Lonnegan's men murder Luther, and Hooker flees for his life to Chicago.

At the same time, Raitt received a fourth Grammy Award for her duet " In the Mood " with John Lee Hooker on his album The Healer.

The Kent family, for whom the town's library is named, originated in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and boasted relations to many prominent early New England families, including the New England Dwight family of Northampton, Massachusetts, the Hooker family of Hartford, the Dudleys of Guilford, Connecticut and the Leavitts of Suffield.

* Clock Hill – Once claimed as the highest point in Otsego County, a century ago they even had a wooden observation tower built for tourists and were locked in bitter debate with folks in Maryland that claimed Hooker Mtn.

General Hooker, then commanding the Army of the Potomac, had grand, aggressive plans for the campaign, but was too timid in execution, allowing the Confederates to seize the initiative.

Afterward, Meade argued strongly with Hooker for resuming the attack against Lee, but to no avail.

Unfortunately for Meade's reputation, he did not skillfully manage the political manipulators he inherited from Hooker.

By the end of the 1940s, he had had several hits, and helped pave the way for contemporaries like Wynonie Harris and John Lee Hooker.

Although he served throughout the war, usually with distinction, Hooker is best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.

In the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, Hooker commanded the 2nd Division of the III Corps and made a good name for himself as a combat leader who handled himself well and aggressively sought out the key points on battlefields.

" Burnside planned a wholesale purge of his subordinates, including Hooker, and drafted an order for the president's approval.

" Hooker never explained why he asked for Stone, but Catton believed:

Unfortunately for Hooker and the Union, the execution of his plan did not match the elegance of the plan itself.

These Articles ( though no longer binding ) have had an influence on the ethos of the Communion, an ethos reinforced by their interpretation and expansion by such influential early theologians as Richard Hooker, Lancelot Andrewes, John Cosin, and others.

The influence of Richard Hooker was crucial to an evolution in this understanding in which bishops came to be seen in their more traditional role as ones who delegate to the presbyterate inherited powers, act as pastors to presbyters, and holding a particular teaching office with respect to the wider church.

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, saw Woodhull as the newest champion of their cause.

Meanwhile, Snyder has tracked Hooker to Chicago, but his pursuit is thwarted when he is summoned by undercover FBI agents led by Agent Polk, who orders him to assist in their scheme to arrest Gondorff using Hooker.

Since their mother was unable to support the family on her own, the Perkinses were often in the presence of aunts on her father's side of the family, namely Isabella Beecher Hooker, a suffragist, Harriet Beecher Stowe ( author of Uncle Tom's Cabin ) and Catharine Beecher.

Leavitt's descendants continued to remain in Charlemont and the surrounding region, and several — including Col. Roger Hooker Leavitt, who represented Charlemont in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and his brother Hart Leavitt -- became notable operators of stations on the Underground Railroad, sheltering many escaped slaves on their journeys northward.

( Both Franklin and Smith were considered suspect by Hooker because of their previous political maneuvering against Burnside and on behalf of McClellan.

Several failed projects such as the Rainbow Centre Factory Outlet, Niagara Falls Convention and Civic Center, the Native American Cultural Center, the Hooker Chemical ( later the Occidental Petroleum ) Headquarters building, the Wintergarden, the Fallsville Splash Park, Aquafalls, a multi-story parking ramp, an enclosed pedestrian walkway / bridge, the Falls Street Faire / Falls Street Station amusement complexes, parts of the Robert Moses State Parkway, and the Mayor E. Dent Lackey Plaza closed within twenty years of their construction.

Thomas Hooker and others to go off and form their own colonies and was termed " an object of great fear in all the colonies.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Catharine Beecher all grew up in Litchfield where their father, Lyman Beecher was the Presyterian minister from 1810-1826.

Hooker Chemical was found to be negligent in their disposal of waste, though not reckless in the sale of the land, in what became a test case for liability clauses.

Gray, Darwin and Hooker became lifelong friends and colleagues, and Gray and Hooker conducted research on Darwin ’ s behalf in 1877 on their Rocky Mountain expedition.

After Hooker returned to England and reported to Darwin on their adventure, Darwin wrote back to Gray: “ I have just ... heard prodigies of your strength & activity.

Lord Grey and Sir William Herbert led the attack and contemporary Exeter historian John Hooker wrote that ' the Cornish would not give in until most of their number had been slain or captured.

* 2008: ( Two winning newspapers ) Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times, " for their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.

Eventually, however, his application was accepted by the Hooker Electro-Chemical Company in Niagara Falls, New York, which led him to employment in their laboratory.

In the late 1960s Nashville entrepreneur John Jay Hooker persuaded Cannon and African-American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to lend their names to a chain of fried chicken restaurants established to compete with Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Hooker Settlements to do their conveyancing.

Not only had the roadbuilders remembered their patron, but Ellington was also backed vehemently by the usually Republican Nashville Banner, the evening rival to the Tennessean, seemingly in part because Hooker was backed by the other paper, but also because he did seem to be the more conservative of the two major candidates.

In 1966, Howard Baker had beaten Governor Frank Clement for the United States Senate because the Democratic party was divided between the Clement / Ellington forces and the anti-Clement / Ellington forces, as best exemplified in the heated primary battle that year between Ellington and Hooker, and the absence of a gubernatorial nominee had in fact allowed Republicans to focus almost all of their energies on electing Baker to the Senate seat.

She was a member of the Booth family that settled in Indiana from their homes in Connecticut ; their American ancestry stretched back to the founder of Connecticut, the Reverend Thomas Hooker.