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She and lobbied
She was given a pass by General William Hammond to ride in army ambulances to provide comfort to the soldiers and nurse them back to health and lobbied the U. S. Army bureaucracy, at first without success, to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields.
" She has also unsuccessfully lobbied for Sharon Tate to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She also unsuccessfully lobbied the Soviet government of Mikhail Gorbachev to rehabilitate Leon Trotsky.
She achieved statewide prominence as head of the New York Consumers League in 1910 and in that position she lobbied with vigor for better working hours and conditions.
She has lobbied successive governments to keep libraries open and to resource the Australian film and television industry so it can tell more Australian stories.
She had lobbied for Laurence Olivier to play the part of Essex, but Warner Brothers, nervous at giving the part to an actor who was relatively unknown in the United States, instead cast Errol Flynn, who was at the height of his success.
She also lobbied for a constitutional amendment to make a school levy approval contingent on a majority of voter support, rather than a 60 % super-majority.
She had lobbied successfully for Boyce's espionage accomplice, Andrew Daulton Lee, to be awarded parole in 1998.
She lobbied the General Assembly to establish a sanatorium for Negro tuberculosis patients-the first ever in the United States.
She lobbied Congress with several plans for the neighborhood before getting approval for the park, including supporting a plan by architect Franklin W. Smith to construct a colossal presidential mansion on Meridian Hill to replace the White House.
She also lobbied for laws against child labor, to allow all children to attend school.
She frequently lobbied her former colleagues on behalf of Jacksonville during debate over military base realignment and closures.
She actively lobbied parliament on issues such as equality of property rights, birth control, equal naturalisation laws, the creation of a system of children's courts and raising the age of marriage consent.
She lobbied Congress to simply remove the words " prevention of conception " from federal obscenity statutes.
She and other trustees lobbied the Ohio General Assembly for new laws to protect townships from such annexations.
She actively lobbied then-president Bill Clinton for funds to rebuild the city and construct a permanent flood protection system for the city and neighboring East Grand Forks, Minnesota.
She lobbied officials, organized advertising campaigns, wrote pamphlets, and planned rallies.
She lobbied for improvements in the city's prisons, advocated the hiring of police matrons, and urged the establishment of separate prisons for women.
She finally succeeded with the intervention of Maxim Gorky, who lobbied Lenin on Gabriel's behalf.
She has also lobbied the U. S. and Chinese negotiators to ensure that implementation of UNESCO rules about non-archaeological cultural exports do not tie the hands of American curators.

She and Jack
She would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.
She said, when she learned Jackie was heading home: `` I'm just speculating, but I have to think Jack feels he's hurting Boston's chances ''.
She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
She found success opposite Jack Lemmon in It Happened to Jane, a comedy film released in 1959.
She appeared partially nude in Prime Suspect ( 1988 ) and Compelling Evidence ( 1995 ), but her most infamous film is 1997's Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill ... and Jill.
" She was escorted into a waiting room, and when granted access to see her husband, he quipped to her, " Honey, I forgot to duck ", borrowing the defeated boxer Jack Dempsey's jest to his wife.
She has one son, Wesley, with her late husband, Jack Crusher.
She is considered the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
She is considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper.
She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims.
She appeared in the third episode of Season 3 of NBC's 30 Rock playing Liz Lemon's old college roommate who stalks Jack Donaghy.
* She agreed to a date with actor Jack Nicholson to make Bogdanovich jealous.
She becomes involved with Nob Hill scion Jack Burley ( Jack Holt ).
She drives Willy Jack home to Tennessee and then continues to Maine to find Forney at college.
She appeared in two Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), where she played Sally Ryan, the daughter of Ford's character Jack Ryan.
Director Michael Curtiz did not want Crawford and told Jack Warner, " She comes over here with her high-hat airs and her goddamn shoulder pads ... why should I waste my time directing a has-been?
She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Doolittle in Jumpin ' Jack Flash.
She was a guest star in one episode of the popular Ben Casey television series starring Vince Edwards and was a frequent guest on chat shows of the day including numerous appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin, Dinah Shore and Johnny Carson.
She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers ' satire I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).
She finally scored a major box-office hit as Sukie Ridgemont in the 1987 adaptation of John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon.
She worked with such leading men as Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Duvall.
She leads Hyperdog and Peregrine, along with Dust Devil, Shock-headed Pete and Jack Phantom, to the sewers near where she encountered her attacker.

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