* 1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress

* 1983 – Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor

* 1928 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano ( d. 2010 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

* 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter ( d. 1782 )

* 1958 – Lambert Wilson, French actor

* 1937 – Don Wilson, England cricketer

* 1933 – Serena Wilson, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2007 )

* 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson ( d. 1944 )

* 1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician

* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

* 1943 – Hugh Wilson, American director, writer, and actor

* 1933 – Pete Wilson, American politician, 36th Governor of California

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

Towns Hospital, but not before drinking four beers on the way – the last time Wilson got drunk.

* 1913 – Angus Wilson, English novelist ( d. 1991 )

* 1987 – Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater

* 2007 – Tony Wilson, English journalist ( b. 1950 )

* 1898 – Maurice Wilson, English soldier, mystic, mountaineer, and aviator ( d. 1934 )

* 2008 – Al Wilson, American singer ( b. 1939 )

* 1914 – Justin Wilson, American chef and humorist ( d. 2001 )

* Gordon Wilson ( 1927 – 1995 ), Peace campaigner and Irish senator

Despite a fourth straight All-Star season by Helton and 36 homers by outfielder Preston Wilson, the Rockies finished just 74 – 88.

* Andrew R. Wilson, The History of the Christadelphians 1864 – 1885 The Emergence of a Denomination ( Shalom Publications, 1997 ISBN 0-646-22355-0 ).

It is named for William L. Wilson, Representative from West Virginia, chair of the U. S. House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland, both Democrats.

11,, July 24, 1897 ), introduced by U. S. Representative Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine, raised tariffs in United States to counteract the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act of 1894, which had lowered rates.

During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation, and in the income tax case of 1895, Joseph Hodges Choate used Coke's argument that a tax upon the income of property is a tax on the property itself to have the Supreme Court of the United States declare the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act unconstitutional, leading to the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.

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is composed of Mario Andreoni ( guitar ), Dan Gorman ( horns / percussion / keys ), Nic Offer ( vocals ), Tyler Pope ( bass / various electronic devices ), and Allan Wilson ( horns / percussion / keys ).

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# REDIRECT Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act

# REDIRECT Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act

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After Youngblood had driven in two runs with a single in the third inning for the Mets in an afternoon game at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs, he was replaced in center field by Mookie Wilson, and traded to the Montreal Expos for a player to be named later ( On August 16, the Expos sent Tom Gorman to the Mets to complete the deal ).

He also proposed a successful amendment to the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act that excluded farm implements and machinery from the tariff.

The Democrats lowered tariffs with the Underwood Tariff in 1913, though its effects were soon overwhelmed by the changes in trade caused by World War I. Wilson proved especially effective in mobilizing public opinion behind tariff changes by denouncing corporate lobbyists, addressing Congress in person in highly dramatic fashion, and staging an elaborate ceremony when he signed the bill into law.

But in 1897 President William McKinley, a personal friend of Thomas Wilson Bradley of the U. S. Knife Company, pushed through the Dingley Tariff that restored the status quo ante.

This continued until 1913 when the administration of Woodrow Wilson initiated his The New Freedom policy that replaced the National Bank System with the Federal Reserve System, and lowered tariffs to revenue-only levels with the Underwood Tariff.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

Two amendments were made to the Farm Loan Act of 1916 which had been signed into law by President Wilson, and which expanded the maximum size of rural farm loans.

Wilson secured passage of the Federal Reserve Act in late 1913.

Wilson helped end the long battles over the trusts with the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

* December 26 – United States president Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U. S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to more efficiently transport troops and materials for the war effort.

Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U. S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 26, 1919.

The National Insurance Act of 1966, which introduced supplementary earnings-related benefits for short-term sickness and unemployment, had far-reaching distributional consequences by “ guaranteeing that insurance benefits rose at the same rate as wages in the late 1960s .” Trade unions were supportive of the advances made in social protection by the Wilson government, which had a considerable impact on the living standards of the lowest quintile of the population.

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.

By coincidence, $ 4, 000 ($ 88, 100 in 2010 dollars ) would be the exemption for married couples when the Revenue Act of ( October ) 1913 was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, as a result of the ratification of the 16th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution in February 1913.

The Act is enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, which was also created and empowered during the Wilson Presidency by the Federal Trade Commission Act, and also the Antitrust Division of the U. S. Department of Justice.

Alpha was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature and signed by Governor Woodrow Wilson on June 26, 1911, from portions of Pohatcong Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 31, 1911.

Yet, in 1918, before the bombings, President Woodrow Wilson had pressured the Congress to legislate the anti-immigrant, anti-anarchist Sedition Act of 1918 to protect wartime morale by deporting putatively undesirable political people.

The Radio Act of 1912 gave the president legal permission to shut down radio stations " in time of war ", and during the first two and a half years of World War One, before US entry, President Wilson tasked the US Navy with monitoring US radio stations, nominally to ensure " neutrality.

Wilson signed these revisions to the Panama Canal Act on 15 June 1914.

Wilson was denied language in the Act authorizing power to the executive branch for press censorship, but Congress did include a provision to block distribution of print materials through the Post Office.

In March 1919 President Wilson, at the suggestion of Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory pardoned or commuted the sentences of some 200 prisoners convicted under the Espionage Act or the Sedition Act.

The U. S. Congress passed, and Wilson signed, the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918.