The club was a white-only establishment even though it featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the era including Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Lottie Gee, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ethel Waters.

He even joined an all-blind band during that time and was influenced by the records of Teddy Wilson and Fats Waller.

Most of the team's criminal members did not really take to Waller's methods ( most notably Captain Boomerang ), and even the team's heroes were often at odds with Waller.

It was ultimately revealed that the reason that Amanda Waller even kept the heroes such as Nightshade around, was in order for them to act as her conscience.

Unknown to them during this battle, Waller had ordered a massive airstrike on standby to kill the combined villains, heroes, and even herself had the heroes failed to stop the menace.

Unbeknownst to him, Amanda Waller had already dealt with the threat, and Flag set out to assassinate Cray in order to ensure the existence of the Suicide Squad, even though he loathed some of its members.

Waller then instructs Fire to stop Brother Eye from being reactivated, even if it means killing Sasha or Midnight.

Ron Waller was hired as head coach in 1974.

Jordan also hired George L. " Buck " Bradberry ( defensive backfield ), Homer Hobbs ( assistant line ), Gene Lorendo ( offensive ends ), all former Georgia players, and Charlie Waller ( offensive backfield ).

On October 20, 2010, Skinner was hired as the Oakland Athletics bench coach for the 2011 season replacing Tye Waller.

This is actually the intention of characters within the show ; Amanda Waller hired the Phantasm to recreate Batman in Terry.

It was in fact an assassin-Andrea Beaumont, an old love of Bruce Wayne's and the enigmatic Phantasm-hired by Waller to kill Terry's parents.

" Waller knew that Beaumont was right, and if she wanted to honor Batman and his legacy, she couldn't order the murder in cold blood of two innocent people.

Waller was one of the most popular performers of his era, finding critical and commercial success in his homeland and in Europe.

Anna Waller, a member of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina, co-authored a four-year-long study of jockey injuries and stated to the New York Times that " For every 1, 000 jockeys you have riding one year, over 600 will have medically treated injuries.

General Waller Taylor later served as one of the first United States Senators from the newly-created state of Indiana from 1816 to 1825.

Ward and Waller ranked Lily " with Grocyn and Linacre as one of the most erudite students of Greek that England possessed ".

Other bandmembers at one time or another included George Bias ( vocals ), Benny Carter ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), Doc Cheatham ( trumpet ), Bill Coti ( vocals ), Ed Cuffee ( trombone ), Sidney de Paris ( trumpet ), Lois Deppe ( vocals ), Leonard Davis ( trumpet ), Jimmy Dudley ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Coleman Hawkins ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Robert Inge ( clarinet, ( alto saxophone ), Quentin Jackson ( trombone ), Moxey-Hilton Jefferson ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), James P. Johnson ( piano ), Buddy Lee ( trumpet ), Donald King ( vocals ), Kaiser Marshall ( drums ), Frank Marvin ( vocals ), Theodore McCord ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Jim Napier ( vocals ), Milton Senior ( trumpet ), Joe " Fox " Smith ( trumpet, cornet ), Rex Stewart ( cornet ), Billy Taylor ( tuba ), Fats Waller ( piano, celeste ).

The group released one single in 1975, Ain't Misbehavin ', which contained a cover of the Fats Waller song, as A-side.

William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith ( 23 November 1893 – 18 April 1973 ), a. k. a. " The Lion ", was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas " Fats " Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre from its Golden Age, c. 1920 – 1943.

Cryer was elected to the House of Commons for one of her husband's former constituencies, Keighley, at the 1997 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Gary Waller by 7, 132 votes.

He always wrote with a remarkable smoothness, which marks him, with Edmund Waller and George Sandys, as one of the pioneers of the classic reformation of English verse.

Insulted by the rival team usurping the Suicide Squad name, Waller accepts the mission to liberate Diabloverde at the price of one peso, paid by an exiled resident, Maria, with the addendum of exterminating the island's dictator.

The brief story " Resources " ( one of several in the issue ) depicts Amanda Waller assembling the Squad that is seen in the Adventures of Superman arc.

Roy Waller presented a weekday afternoon show on the station from the early 1980s until 2009, which led to him being regarded as one of the best-known and most popular voices in the county, described by the Eastern Daily Press as " a household name.

Frustrated that the band was not playing a strict enough blues set for his taste ( they were actually billed quite often as " The Jeff Beck Blues Band "), drummer Dunbar left and was replaced by Roy Cook for one show, before Stewart recommended Micky Waller, a bandmate of his from Steampacket.

However history most remembers Waller as one of the king's judges and one of those who signed the death warrant.

Waller testified that Fischer had been the one who proposed the Haymarket meeting ( Fischer claimed it was Waller ) and that they should be ready to attack the police should there be any trouble.

Waller, far out to the west at Shaftesbury, endeavored to gain the necessary time and space for a general concentration in Wiltshire, where Charles would be far from Oxford and Basing and, in addition, outnumbered by two to one.

Things quickly got out of control as the Squad and the Justice League, both intent on subduing Firestorm, fought one another, and the Parasite ( who was brought on the mission against the protestations of both Amanda Waller and Colonel Rick Flag Jr .) is released.

* 1865: Littleton Waller Tazewell Bradford, co-founder, Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity ( ΠΚΑ ) ( one of the oldest and largest college fraternities in the United States ); Norfolk politician

It was mostly written by Rachel Portman, except for tracks one (" My Best Wishes "), thirteen (" Bluin ’ the Blues ") and fourteen (" Mood Indigo "), which were written by Fats Waller, Muggsy Spanier and Duke Ellington, respectively.

Waller is eventually pardoned and released a year later to reorganize the Squad as a freelance mercenary group at the behest of Sarge Steel to deal with a crisis in Vlatava, Count Vertigo's home country ; Waller allowed herself to enter prison because she knew two things perfectly well: one, by confronting the LOA with Squad operatives, she had crossed the line, and two, she would return to her position quite easily if she was ever needed again.

" Waller also gets Lois Lane to reveal the existence of the JSA and paint them in a positive light, and has Tess Mercer as one of her agents.

* Waller, Bruce, N. 2005.

* Waller, Bruce.

* Waller, Bruce N. 2005.

Joined by Rick Buckler on drums, and with Bruce Foxton soon replacing Waller on rhythm guitar, the four-piece band began to forge a local reputation playing a mixture of Beatles covers and a number of compositions written by Weller and Brookes.

* In the Justice League Unlimited series, the episode Epilogue takes place in this year, 15 years after the events of Batman Beyond, with 31 year old Terry McGinnis confronting Amanda Waller after discoveirng he shares Bruce Wayne's DNA.

Bruce was the second son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet ( 1856 – 1912 ) and his wife Angelica ( died 1917 ), daughter of General George Selby, Royal Artillery.

Terry vents some of his frustration about Bruce and his plans to Waller, only to be surprised when Waller reveals that Bruce was not responsible for Terry's genetic makeup: she herself was, without Bruce's consent.

Because of this, Amanda Waller slowly began to respect and trust Bruce Wayne.

According to episode co-writer Dwayne McDuffie, Bruce, as the world's greatest detective, becomes aware that Terry and Matt are his genetic offspring at some point after Terry assumes the role of Batman, and figures out the machinations of Waller and Project Cadmus.

He possesses a high intellect, though Waller notes that Bruce is the brighter of the pair.

In the episode, Terry McGinnis discovers that he is a partial genetic copy of Bruce Wayne ; knowing that the Cadmus Project was the only group to have technology advanced enough to alter DNA, he seeks out Waller to find out about his own origins.

After Hush spares Bruce and Terry so that they can witness him in action of ' saving ' Gotham-Bruce directing the new Catwoman on how to treat Terry's injuries -, it is revealed that the new Hush is a clone of Grayson ; Waller, determined to provide the world with a Batman, cloned Grayson based on DNA and memory readings taken from after his last fight as Nightwing, believing that he was more stable than Bruce and would hence be easier to control.

* Germans, Germany and Unification before Bismarck, Dr. Bruce Waller, University of Wales, 1998