Johnson, a Cincinnati-based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

However, Johnson was well aware that Aristotle had only recommended the unity of action, and knew that rules must serve drama, not vice versa:

Johnson recommended that strict uniformity in religious externals was the best antidote to the negative religious traits that he linked to Whiggism.

Johnson recommended the renaming of the entire cape, announced in a televised address six days after the assassination.

Hopkins recommended him to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg, who appointed Johnson as Kleberg's legislative secretary.

After Johnson married Cameron, two ministers in the South recommended that Johnson be lynched.

A member of the S. C. Johnson company's owners, Henrietta Johnson Lewis, married to the advertising executive who handled the Johnson's Wax account, recommended that her husband, John, give the show a chance as a national program for the company.

There is some disagreement about exactly how Johnson caught Warner Brothers ' attention, with some reports suggesting that pop superstar Prince recommended him after hearing him perform on the public television program Austin City Limits.

Others suggest that it was singer Christopher Cross and producer David Tickle who recommended Johnson to the label.

* the lateral coital position was recommended by Masters and Johnson, and was preferred by three quarters of their heterosexual study participants after having tried it.

Johnson recommended his friend Chester Thompson ( a former Frank Zappa sideman ), who joined as drummer in time for the next tour.

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

The CAAB recommended that Laurie Thomas, a former Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and of the Queensland Art Gallery be appointed Director, but the Prime Minister John Gorton took no action on this recommendation, as he apparently favoured the appointment of James Johnson Sweeney, although he was already 70.

" Writing for gamekeepers in 1851, T. B. Johnson recommended that: " The nest of this bird should be diligently sought ... and destroyed, shooting the parent birds first, if possible.

James Weldon Johnson, the NAACP secretary recommended that he join the Topeka branch.

Ryan recommended a slight change in his delivery ; before the meeting, Johnson would land on the heel of his foot after delivering a pitch, and as such, he usually landed offline from home plate.

In the 1998 season he scored 19 goals in 26 games for Skonto, and his progress was attracting attention from bigger clubs ; he had trials with Salernitana ( Italy ), Werder Bremen ( Germany ), and Casino Salzburg ( Austria ), but he was recommended to Southampton ’ s manager Dave Jones by Gary Johnson, the manager of the Latvian national team.

In 1906, he received a spectacular career boost from fellow Youngstowner Jimmy McAleer, an ex-major leaguer who was so impressed with the young man's ability that he recommended Evans to American League president Ban Johnson.

" Rosen's philosophy is reflected in his recommended reading list which includes Ayn Rand, Adam Smith, Paul Johnson and Thomas Sowell.

In late 1977, Stuermer, on insistence of friend Alphonso Johnson was recommended as a replacement for Steve Hackett.

In 1791, Lord Dorchester recommended Johnson as lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, but London turned this recommendation down.

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based newspaper reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

By that September Johnson declared he was in favor of emancipation, describing slavery as a " cancer on our society ", and also succeeded in enlisting 20, 000 black troops for the Union.

Douglass conferred with President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 on the treatment of black soldiers, and with President Andrew Johnson on the subject of black suffrage.

* 1967 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U. S. Supreme Court.

* Stride piano-A style of piano which emerged after World War I, developed by and dominated by black East coast pianists ( James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie ' The Lion ' Smith ).

A black man named Anthony Johnson of Virginia first introduced permanent black slavery in the 1650s by becoming the first holder in America of permanent black slaves.

President Johnson sent Grant on a fact finding tour of the South after which he filed a report recommending continuation of the Freedman's Bureau but opposed use of black troops in garrisons which were still needed in the South for protection of both races.

During the campaign, Martin Van Buren's running mate Richard Mentor Johnson was accused of having lived with a black woman.

* Wil Johnson as PC / DC Skelton: the only black member of the CID and apparent replacement of Sgt.

The last structures Johnson built on the estate were a library and a reception building, the latter, red and black in color and of curving walls.

Later Jack Johnson, nicknamed the “ Galveston Giant ”, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion.

Although many modern listeners believe that the premier song about soul-selling at a crossroads is " Cross Road Blues " by Robert Johnson, the song may be a description of standing at a cross roads and trying to " flag a ride " or hitch-hike ; the sense of foreboding coming from the singer's apprehension of finding himself, a young black man in the 1920s deep south, alone after dark and at the mercy of passing motorists.

Once he was the world's heavyweight champ, Johnson did not fight a black opponent for the first five years of his reign.

Because black boxers with the exception of Johnson had been barred from fighting for the heavyweight championship because of racism, Johnson ’ s refusal to fight African-Americans offended the African-American community, since the opportunity to fight top white boxers was rare.

When Johnson finally did agree to take on a black opponent in late 1913, it was not Sam Langford, the current coloured heavyweight champ, that he gave the title shot to.

Looking at his dismal performance with the top black heavyweights of his era and his inability to best a one-armed Jack Johnson, Battling Jim Johnson cannot be considered a top contender of his era or a worthy opponent when Jack awarded him the sole title shot given to a black heavyweight from 1908 to 1937.

Henry attacked Johnson for his voting record in denying pay increases to federal troops.

President Johnson was acquitted by the Senate, falling one vote short of the necessary 2 / 3 needed to remove him from office, voting 35-19 to remove him.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, in a dramatic joint-session address, called upon Congress to enact a strong voting rights bill.

Sheridan had been feuding with President Andrew Johnson for months over interpretations of the Military Reconstruction Acts and voting rights issues, and within a month of the second firing, the president removed Sheridan, stating to an outraged Gen. Grant that, " His rule has, in fact, been one of absolute tyranny, without references to the principles of our government or the nature of our free institutions.

Both years he finished second in the Cy Young Award voting to Johnson.

Signed by President Lyndon Johnson, the two laws signaled the end of discriminatory voting practices and segregation of public accommodations.

Johnson, who also finished second in the 1993 and 1997 Cy Young voting, and third in 1994, was the first Seattle Mariners pitcher to win the award, and the only one until Félix Hernández took home the honor in 2010.

Johnson finished 7th in the National League Cy Young voting despite pitching only 2 months in the league, and helped Houston win their second straight National League Central division title.

Concerned about allegations of voting irregularities purportedly leading to disenfranchisement, in 2004 Grijalva joined Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and several other House Democrats in requesting that the United Nations observe and certify elections in the United States.

He finished third in the National League Cy Young voting ( losing to the Arizona Diamondbacks ' Randy Johnson ) and 26th on the National League MVP ballot.

She even admitted to voting for President Lyndon Johnson over Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964 because she believed Goldwater was too mean.

* Edmund G. Ross, from Kansas, for voting for acquittal in the Andrew Johnson impeachment trial.

After Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making racial discrimination and segregation illegal, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which abolished the poll tax and other means of keeping blacks and poor people from registering to vote and voting, established record-keeping and oversight, and provided for federal enforcement in areas with documented patterns of discrimination.

Johnson, then a 10 time all-star, had won the National League Cy Young award each year from 1999 to 2002 and had finished in second place in Cy Young voting that year ( striking out a league high 290 batters with only 44 walks in 245 innings.

He picked up his first of five Silver Slugger Awards and narrowly finished second in National League Cy Young Award voting to Randy Johnson.

After hitting. 306 and. 313 in 1937 and 1938, Johnson posted a career-high mark of. 338 in – third in the AL behind Joe DiMaggio (. 381 ) and Foxx (. 360 ) – and placed eighth in the MVP voting ; he was also third in the AL with 114 RBI.

The scandal involving the sale of discounted Credit Mobilier stock to Congressional members voting for payment of exorbitant transcontinental railroad construction costs took place during the Johnson administration but was uncovered during the Grant administration.

Johnson considered voting against the Harris government's Bill 152 in 1997.

Dorothy Billings, who conducted anthropological research among the alleged " cultists ", revealed that the Lavongai had, by voting for Johnson, consciously engaged in a theatrical act of shaming, seeking to draw attention to what they saw as poor colonial administration by the Australian authorities.

She became enraged when GOP party leaders officially endorsed a fellow assemblyman ( Ross Johnson ) with a more conservative voting record than hers and who had moved into the district to run.

Most who finished ahead of him in the Heisman voting either were seniors ( Ward, Glenn Foley, Johnson ) or gave up their amateur eligibility and declared early for the draft ( Heath Shuler, David Palmer, Marshall Faulk ), which made Wheatley one of the favorites for the award if he stayed in college for one more year.