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white and Congressmen
The Eddies were supported by the younger Daley ( now State's Attorney ), U. S. Congressmen Dan Rostenkowski and William Lipinski, and other powerful white Democrats.
Stoen traveled to Washington D. C. in January 1978 to visit with Congressmen, including Leo Ryan and State Department officials, and wrote a " white paper " to Congress detailing the dispute and pressing for Congressional correspondence.
As one of only two black Congressmen ( the other being William Levi Dawson ) until 1955, Powell challenged the informal ban on black representatives using Capitol facilities reserved for white members.

white and Senators
:* The original Senators club used dark blue as its primary color, with a thick, sans-serif, red or white block " W " on caps.
:* The expansion Senators club mainly used caps with a stylized cursive " W ," first in blue with a red letter ( 1963 – 1967 ), then in red with a white letter ( 1968 – 1971 ).
In 1961 – 1962, the expansion Senators wore dark blue caps with a sans-serif block " W " outlined in white, nearly identical to the caps of the original Senators save for a red button at the top of the cap.
Varying shades of the Senators ' red, white and blue colors are still used by their successor teams ( Minnesota and Texas ), and the Washington Nationals adopted these colors with gold accents upon their 2005 move from Montreal.
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During the 1920 Stanley Cup finals, the Ottawa Senators would don solid white Jerseys to avoid confusion with Seattle's barber pole style of green, red and white ( Ottawa traditionally wore black red and white pole style jerseys ).
The Senators agreed to play in white sweaters.
Under white minority rule in the Union of South Africa, most of the Senators were chosen by an electoral college consisting of Members of each of the four Provincial Councils and Members of the House of Assembly ( the lower house of Parliament, directly elected ).
The Native Representative Senators were white people, who held office for a fixed term and were not affected by a dissolution of the Senate.
The Black Senators adopted the name of their white, Texas League counterparts sometime in the early 1910s.

white and controlled
The historian William J. Cooper has stated that Davis believed in southern social order that included " a democratic white polity based firmly on dominance of a controlled and excluded black caste.
The modern mining, farming, and industrial sectors of the economy, controlled by the white minority, have affected traditional African society without transforming it.
Map of the crusader states, showing the area controlled by the Assassins around Masyaf, slightly above the center, in white.
In the first half of the 20th century, the Bahamas was largely controlled by a group of influential white merchants known as the " Bay Street Boys ", who dominated both the economy and the legislature.
In 1965, a full century after the American Civil War, things had not changed much: 86 white families owned 90 percent of the land in the county and controlled the government.
The player controlled a white ' X ' cursor with the mouse, that turned red whenever landing onto an object ( or person ) with which Guybrush could interact.
The temperature was controlled passively by gold plating, white paint, and polished aluminum surfaces.
After white Democrats regained power in the late nineteenth century, like other southern states, Louisiana passed a new constitution and laws that controlled voter registration and electoral rules, effectively disfranchising blacks despite their constitutional right to vote.
In contrast, Frank Costello controlled the support of the capos and soldiers who ran the white collar crime rackets ( i. e., gambling, loansharking, construction, etc.
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In 1999, Whitman fired Colonel Carl A. Williams, head of the New Jersey State Police, after he was quoted noting that cocaine and marijuana traffickers were often members of minority groups, while the methaphetamine trade was controlled by primarily white biker gangs.
A fundamental goal of The Order was revolution against the American government, which its members, and those of other white supremacist groups, believed to be controlled by a cabal of prominent Jews.
They wanted to be able to obtain better prices for their products from the white planters who controlled the land.
It was a competitive two-player game controlled using a two-way joystick, and was presented in black and white graphics.
The Grand Terrace was controlled by Al Capone-so Hines became Capone's " Mr Piano Man " with the Grand Terrace upright piano soon replaced by a white $ 3, 000 Bechstein grand.
One such example of institutional racism in South Africa is Natives Land Act, 1913, which reserved 90 % of land for white use and the Native Urban Areas Act of 1923 controlled access to urban areas, which suited commercial farmers who were keen to hold labour on their land.
In other descriptions, it is located on the forehead, white, with 16 petals, corresponding to the vrittis of mercy, gentleness, patience, non-attachment, control, excellent-qualities, joyous mood, deep spiritual love, humility, reflection, restfulness, seriousness, effort, controlled emotion, magnanimity and concentration.
Indeed, Senakhtenre Ahmose, the first king in the line of Ahmoside kings even imported white limestone from the Hyksos controlled region of Tura in Lower Egypt to make a granary door at the Temple of Karnak.
Effectively, Southern white Democrats controlled all the votes of the expanded population by which Congressional apportionment was figured.
The South had originally been settled and controlled by Anglicans, who dominated the ranks of rich planters but whose ritualistic high church established religion had little appeal to ordinary men and women, both white and black.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Chenin blanc was the principal grape in the South African wine industry's " white wine renaissance " that was ushered in by the introduction of new technologies such as temperature controlled fermentation vessels.
In a majority of European countries including France, Spain and Italy, junctions without traffic lights or roundabouts are controlled by stop signs on minor roads and by white, yellow and black priority diamond signs on the major road.
It is almost entirely preventable by controlled irradiation of blood products to inactivate the white blood cells ( including lymphocytes ) within
" Under mysterious circumstances, Lobengula died in January 1894, and within a few short months the British South Africa Company controlled Matabeleland and white settlers continued to arrive.

white and all
Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.
Above all read in Jens Bjerre's The Last Cannibal Show the old man of the Wailbri tribe ( not cannibals ) in central Australia gave to the white man his choicest possession, while the tears streamed down his face.
The differentiation between the East Coast and West Coast schools of jazz, the differences between the `` hard bop '' school of Rollins, and the `` cerebral '' experiments of Tristano, Konitz and Marsh, the general differences in the mores of white and Negro musicians, all had become fairly well known to certain segments of the public.
And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.
The sweep of space, the delicate counterbalance of the white masses, the over-all completeness and unity, the originality and imagination, all entitle it to be called an authentic masterpiece.
I believe we all want more schools where white and Negro together can and do attend.
It was obvious that to match Brumidi, white must be mixed with all but the darkest tones.
Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.
The Georgia Constitution gives the Legislature the power to exempt colleges from property taxation if, among other criteria, `` all endowments to institutions established for white people shall be limited to white people, and all endowments to institutions established for colored people shall be limited to colored people ''.
Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all -- and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes.
But responsiveness to these opportunities presumes that all of us judge the good as a human good and not simply as a professional, white, American good.
This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.
They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.
They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.
When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.
Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.
* 1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U. S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence ; all are later dishonorably discharged.

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