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" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.
* Wilson v First County Trust Ltd ( No 2 ) UKHL 40, 1 AC 816
First Lady Edith Wilson performed most routine duties of government by reviewing all of Wilson's communications and deciding what he would be presented with and what she would delegate to others.
First incandescent light bulb by Joseph Wilson Swan.
This reorganization was engineered in large part by Secretary of State Knox's First Assistant Secretary, Huntington Wilson, who served as de facto Secretary of State due to the frequent absence of Knox.
Wilson spent the majority of his childhood, up to age 14, in Augusta, Georgia, where his father was minister of the First Presbyterian Church.
* December 28 – Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921.
Wilson was reluctant to return to active duty, but Edward persuaded him to do so, and Wilson became First Sea Lord on 25 January 1910.
Wilson is believed to have been the First Baths Master of the Arlington Baths Club in Glasgow.
As a result of the First Wilson government ’ s educational policies, opportunities for working-class children were improved, while overall access to education in 1970 was broader than in 1964.
Housing was a major policy area under the First Wilson Government.
In addition, the First Wilson Government also encouraged the introduction of discretionary local authority rent rebates to assist with housing costs.
Atkinson, social security received much more attention from the First Wilson Government than it did during the previous thirteen years of Conservative government.
Increased funds were allocated to social services during the First Wilson Government's time in office.
During the six years of the First Wilson Government, spending on social services rose much faster than real personal incomes, and from 1964 to 1969, spending on social services rose from 14. 6 % to 17. 6 % of GNP, an increase of nearly 20 %.
A long term addition of 9 shillings ( which was subsequently increased to 10 shillings ) a week was provided for the allowances of all pensioners and for the long term sick, while the real value of most existing benefits was increased, ( such as family allowances, which were substantially raised in 1967 and 1968 ) with benefits rising at roughly the same rate as salaries over the course of the First Wilson Government, while family allowances were significantly increased.
Despite these improvements, however, the NHS retained a reputation of being a low-wage employer by the end of the First Wilson Government ’ s time in office.
Encouragement of regional development was given increased attention under the First Wilson Government, with the aim of narrowing economic dispratiies between the various regions.
Altogether, the impact of the First Wilson government's regional development policies was such that, according to one historian, the period 1963 to 1970 represented “ the most prolonged, most intensive, and most successful attack ever launched on regional problems in Britain .”
The First Wilson Government made assistance to deprived urban communities a specific policy of national government in 1969 with the passage of the Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act, which empowered the Home Secretary to dispense grants to assist local authorities in providing extra help to areas “ of special social need .” The Urban Aid Programme was subsequently launched to provide community and family advice centres, centres for the elderly, money for schools and other services, thereby alleviating urban deprivation.

First and Government
* Band ( First Nations Canada ), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada
Prince Ranariddh and Hun Sen became First and Second Prime Ministers, respectively, in the Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ).
Among the many petty local republics that were formed during the first year of the Greek Revolution, prior to the creation of a unified Provisional Government at the First National Assembly at Epidaurus, were:
GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School ( GCCS or GC & CS ), by which name it was known until 1946.
The British Government codified this, to some extent, with the publication of the Official Secrets Act in 1889 and by the time of the First World War multi-tier classification systems were used to communicate information to and from various fronts.
* First National Government / National Day ( Argentina )
First Students at Macquarie UniversityThe idea of founding a third university in Sydney was flagged in the early 1960s when the New South Wales Government formed a committee of enquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in New South Wales.
Since Filmer's views essentially require that the Stuart family be uniquely descended from the patriarchs of the Bible, and since even in the late 17th century that was a difficult view to uphold, Locke attacked Filmer's views in his First Treatise on Government, freeing him to set out his own views in the Second Treatise on Civil Government.
Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government.
First Responsible Government in the British Empire .”</ br >
Čič's government was followed by the First Government of Vladimír Mečiar ( 1990-1991 ), Government of Ján Čarnogurský ( 1991-1992 ) and the Second Government of Vladimír Mečiar ( 1992-1994 ).
* 1810 – First Government Junta in Chile.
First, on May 12, 1981, the Government devalued the Baht by 1. 07 percent, from THB20. 775 / USD to THB21 / USD.
in 1868 Gladstone proposed the Irish Church Resolutions to reunite the Liberal Party for government ( on the issue of disestablishment of the Church of Ireland – this would be done during Gladstone's First Government in 1869 and meant that Irish Roman Catholics did not need to pay their tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland ).
From 1935 the First Labour Government showed a limited degree of idealism in foreign policy, for example opposing the appeasement of Germany and Japan.
In 1935, the First Labour Government was elected, and the post-depression decade showed that average Labour support in New Zealand had roughly doubled comparable to pre-depression times.
After the First World War he became a member of the University Commission under the Slovene Provincial Government and helped establish the first Slovene university at Ljubljana, and was elected its first chancellor.
During this time the Canadian government signed treaties ( known as the " Numbered Treaties ") with various First Nations ( but not Métis ), which turned over rights to almost the entire western plains to the Government of Canada.
The French CGT leadership under Léon Jouhaux faced similar criticism from its own left-wing, after its close collaboration with Government during the First World War and, later, the Popular Front ( France ); However, unlike the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists, on both occasions the CGT stopped short of full Cabinet participation.

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First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.
By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.
* First and foremost, it governed player contracts that set up mechanisms to end the cross-league raids on rosters and reinforced the power of the hated reserve clause that kept players virtual slaves to their baseball masters.
Even though Haeckel's program in comparative embryology virtually collapsed after the First World War, his embryo drawings have often been reproduced and redrawn with increased precision and accuracy in works that have kept the study of comparative embryology alive.
But the trademarks were kept separate, and films by First National continued to be credited solely to " First National Pictures " until 1936.
A skillful and remarkably successful guerrilla campaign waged by the German commander Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck kept the war in Tanganyika going for the entire length of the First World War.
The operators who did find it, including William " Bill " Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Virginia, were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation " First actual case of bug being found.
First the Ottomans attacked the newly built fort of St. Elmo and after a whole month of fighting the fort was in rubble and the soldiers kept fighting until the Turks ended their lives.
In 1971, they were kept out of cabinet, and the party of former PvdA members, DS70, became a partner of the First Biesheuvel cabinet.
The company built the world's first totally enclosed monoplane in 1912, but it was the well-proportioned, wooden biplane known as the Avro 504 that kept the firm busy throughout the First World War and beyond.
A series of follow-up battles destroyed the majority of the First Army as well, and kept the Russians off-balance until the spring of 1915.
For the greater part of the First Age the oath kept the sons of Fëanor united in one cause to defeat Morgoth and retrieve the jewels.
Unlike the Second Triumvirate, the First Triumvirate had no official status whatsoever ; its overwhelming power in the Roman Republic was strictly unofficial influence, and was in fact kept secret for some time as part of the political machinations of the Triumvirs themselves.
First, he largely kept out of the war, even ignoring news of its progress, and instead translating The Life and Death of Pomponious Atticus into English.
The new pallia are solemnly blessed after the First Vespers on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and are then kept in a special silver-gilt casket near the Confessio Petri ( tomb of St. Peter ) until required.
The Bedford Level Commissioners kept the weed removed from the lower section, and the South Level Commissioners maintained Crosswater Staunch, but commercial traffic had ceased by the start of the First World War.
First rates were typically kept out of commission (" in Ordinary ") during peacetime and only activated (" commissioned ") during times of conflict.
It literally took our breath away to see the simple plane of the site kept open from First Avenue to the River, only three structures on it, standing free, a fourth lying low behind them along the river ’ s edge.
The Lord Chancellor does not maintain custody of the Great Seal of Scotland ( which is kept by the First Minister of Scotland ) or of the Great Seal of Northern Ireland ( which is kept by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ).
The 1938 British Red Cross First Aid Manual goes so far as to instruct " place the head in a such as position that the windpipe is kept straight, keeping the head up if the face is flushed, and in line with the body if it is pale ".
First, he kept his cool in battle and was not afraid of death.
This practice, which had effectively kept the Solars from rising to power again since the end of the First Age, has faltered in the Exalted timeline because of the recent disappearance of the Scarlet Empress – the absolute monarch of the Realm – and the stability and leadership that she was able to bring to the Dragon-Blooded.

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