Largely under the influence of the Hungarian-born economists Nicholas Kaldor and Thomas Balogh, an idiosyncratic " Selective Employment Tax " ( SET ) was introduced that was designed to tax employment in the service sectors while subsidising employment in manufacturing ( the rationale proposed by its economist authors derived largely from claims about potential economies of scale and technological progress, but Wilson in his memoirs stressed the tax's revenue-raising potential ).

Smith subsequently attacked Wilson in his memoirs, accusing him of delaying tactics during negotiations and alleging duplicity ; Wilson responded in kind, questioning Smith's good faith and suggesting that Smith had moved the goal-posts whenever a settlement appeared in sight.

Former MI5 officer Peter Wright claimed in his memoirs, Spycatcher, that 30 MI5 agents then collaborated in an attempt to undermine Wilson.

* Harriette Wilson's memoirs Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson was adapted for the BBC Radio 4 series Classic Serial by Ellen Dryden and broadcast in June 2012

' The Wilson Plot ', as it became known, was corroborated to varying degrees both before and after the film's transmission in various other books by journalists and in volumes of memoirs by others involved in the conspiracy.

1986Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme is the name of a 1986 autobiography that features the memoirs of Mary Wilson, one of the founding members of Motown singing trio The Supremes.

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library houses Woodrow Wilson materials from during and immediately after his lifetime, and memoirs of those who worked with him, and governmental volumes concerning World War I.

Yegor Ligachev writes in his memoirs that Chernenko was elected general secretary without a hitch.

He writes in his memoirs that he felt saddened that he had grieved his father.

Historian Richard Altick writes that " To judge from the number of references to it in the private letters and memoirs of the 1840s ... Punch had become a household word within a year or two of its founding, beginning in the middle class and soon reaching the pinnacle of society, royalty itself ".

Martin writes in his memoirs, " As I feared, Willkie had difficulty reading the speech from the small type.

In his memoirs, Kazan writes that his testimony meant that " the big shot had become the outsider.

Powell himself stayed at the Hotel du Port et des Negociants on two occasions in the early 1930s and writes in the second volume of his memoirs The naval port, with its small inner harbour, row of cafes along the rade, was quite separate from the business quarter of the town.

In his memoirs he writes:

The novelist Jocelyn Brooke, who died in 1966, writes evocatively about Folkestone and Sandgate in his memoirs.

Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), the author of many supernatural and fantastic fictions, lived at 23 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill Gate, in the 1880s ; he writes of his life here in his memoirs, Far Off Things ( 1922 ) and Things Near and Far ( 1923 ).

The work, showing the author's interest in the theories of Sigmund Freud, is written in the form of the memoirs of one Zeno Cosini, who writes them at the insistence of his psychoanalyst.

And yet Magenta ( as Mac-Mahon is also known for short ) writes in his still unpublished memoirs: " By family tradition, and by the sentiments towards the royal house which were instilled in me by my early education, I could not be anything but a Legitimist.

However Jean Renoir writes in his memoirs: “ Stroheim spoke hardly any German.

In his memoirs he writes: " At this time I began to experience anger, envy and even hatred towards the landowner and especially towards his children-those young slackers who often strolled past me sleek and healthy, well-dressed, well-groomed and scented ; while I was filthy, dressed in rags, barefoot, and reeked of manure from cleaning the calves ' barn.

In Edwardian England, Louis Mazzini ( Dennis Price ), the Duke of Chalfont, writes his memoirs while in prison awaiting execution the next morning.

Soto writes novels, plays and memoirs, and has edited several literary anthologies.

Al-Biruni, who himself lived a large part of his life in Ghazni located just northwest of the Sulaiman mountain range, writes of the mountain range in his memoirs as being the western frontier mountains of South Asia and the homeland of the people known as the Afghans or Pashtuns.

We may not get the answer until and if he writes his memoirs, but I doubt it even then because the Herbert Brownell I grew to know would not write about his personal secrets.

In The Hobbit, Tolkien writes of the protagonist and title character Bilbo Baggins composing his memoirs.

Bill Clinton writes in his memoirs My Life that Ralston was used to resolve a potentially sticky situation with Pakistan in which the US would use Pakistani airspace to strike at the Al-Qaeda organization meeting in Afghanistan following the US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Many years later the commander of the Acheron writes his memoirs and reveals that information had reached the Federation from One of Earth's most distinguished astronomers, now living in honoured retirement on the Moon.

William Shatner writes in his memoirs that " The Devil in the Dark " was his favorite original Star Trek episode.

In her memoirs about her famous sister, Ludie Montgomery writes that Terrell was the victim of sexual molestation by three boys after leaving a neighborhood party at the age of eleven.

Thatcher writes in her memoirs that Carlisle " had not proved a particularly effective Education Secretary " and to this effect he was dismissed in the September 1981 Cabinet reshuffle.

Lee Kuan Yew dismissed Catherine Lim ’ s views as “ the popular theory that the Western press writes about .” In his memoirs, Lee is quoted as saying:

The book was far from a complete failure, selling more than 22, 000 copies by 1890, but it was never on par with such 1880s bestsellers as The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant or Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Justin Martyr, in the early 2nd century, mentions the " memoirs of the apostles ", which Christians called " gospels " and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament, which was written in narrative form where " in the biblical story God is the protagonist, Satan ( or evil people / powers ) are the antagonists, and God ’ s people are the agonists ".

Robert Lochner claimed in his memoirs that Kennedy had asked him for a translation of " I am a Berliner ", and that they practiced the phrase in Brandt's office.

Khrushchev wrote in his ( unreliable ) memoirs that Beria had, immediately after the stroke, gone about " spewing hatred against and mocking him ", and then, when Stalin showed signs of consciousness, dropped to his knees and kissed his hand.

Shortly after Stalin's death, he announced triumphantly to the Politburo that he had " done in " and " saved all ", according to Molotov's memoirs.

On 4 March 2004, he published the first of his memoirs, called " Memories 1930 – 1982 ", covering the period 1930 to 1982, when he became chancellor.

In his memoirs, Michael Caine says producer Harry Saltzman thought up the surname " Palmer ", and Caine innocently remarked that " Harry " was a dull name, not realising his gaffe until seeing Saltzman's stare.

A supplemental website at www. italianamericana. com to the journal " Italian Americana ", edited by novelist Christine Palamidessi Moore, also offers historical articles, stories, memoirs, poetry, and book reviews.

In 1826, the old Hartslog congregation moved to a brick building, referred to by Senator John Scott in his memoirs as the " Brick Church ", which seems to have been located near to the site of the present Reformed Church.

In his memoirs, John C. Frémont wrote, " To this Gate I gave the name of " Chrysopylae ", or " Golden Gate "; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.

Shidehara, in his memoirs Gaikō gojũnen (" Fifty-years Diplomacy ", 1951 ) also admitted to his authorship, and described how the idea came to him on a train ride to Tokyo.

The most important of his later works are Litauischen Geschichten (" Lithuanian Stories ", 1917 ), a realistic portrait of his homeland, and a volume of memoirs in 1922.

" I have remained a soldier ", he says in his memoirs, " and I can conscientiously say that I have not only served one government after another loyally, but, when they fell, have regretted all of them with the single exception of my own.

In his memoirs, Rimsky-Korsakov routinely refers to the group as " Balakirev's circle ", and occasionally uses " The Mighty Handful ", usually with an ironic tone.

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz notes that in his memoirs Husseini recalled that Heinrich Himmler, in the summer of 1943, while confiding some German war secrets, inveighed against Jewish " war guilt ", and, speaking of Germany ’ s persecution of the Jews said that " up to now we have exterminated ( in Arabic, abadna ) around three million of them ".

As a professional fine gentleman, at a period when, as the genial Major Pack says, " the amours of Britain would furnish as diverting memoirs, if well related, as those of France published by Rabutin, or those of Nero's court writ by Petronius ", Wycherley was obliged to be a loose liver.

Physicist Robert Serber stated in his memoirs that his nickname for the Nagasaki atomic bomb, " Fat Man ", was inspired by Greenstreet's " Kasper Gutman " character in The Maltese Falcon.

However, Macready, British Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, confirmed the death sentence describing Mac Eoin as “ nothing more than a murderer ” and writing that he was probably responsible for other " atrocities ", but also later recorded in his memoirs that Mac Eoin was the only IRA man he had met, apart from Collins, to have a sense of humour.

" Whatever his fate ", he wrote in his memoirs, " in the eyes of blacks, the university bore the brunt of the blame.

Jack London described oyster piracy in his autobiographical " alcoholic memoirs ", John Barleycorn, in the form of romanticized juvenile fiction in The Cruise of the Dazzler, and from the opposing point of view of the California Fish Patrol in " A Raid on the Oyster Pirates ," from Tales of the Fish Patrol.

In his memoirs, Trudeau described Bourassa's Bill 22 as a " slap in the face ", as it ran contrary to the federal government's initiative to mandate bilingualism.

Both the diaries and the memoirs are noted for their caustic and succinct portraits of Iorga's main rivals: Maiorescu as inflexible and unemotional, Dimitrie Sturdza as avaricious, Nae Ionescu as " an awful temper ", Hungarian politician István Tisza as a " Turanian " tyrant ; Iorga contributed particularly emotional, and critically acclaimed, tributes for his political friends, from Vasile Bogrea to Yugoslavia's Nikola Pašić.

In 1785 he published a series of memoirs arguing against Isaac Newton's theory that light was transmitted by " corpuscles ", citing both natural observations and Scripture.