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Issuing the Balfour Declaration would appeal to Woodrow Wilson s two closest advisors, who were avid Zionists.
* 1985 — Michael G. Wilson 63 ( Film Producer / Writer )
James Tama Jim ” Wilson resided for much of the 1890s with his family at the Farm House until he joined President William McKinley s cabinet as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.
However, he castigated Japanese leaders who seemed enthralled by the British and the Americans and who spoke in favor of Woodrow Wilson s Fourteen Points and the League of Nations, claiming these countries used idealism as " a mask for their own self-interest.
Before drafting the specific terms of his peace deal, Wilson recruited a team led by Colonel House to compile information deemed pertinent in assessing Europe s geo-political situation.
In early January 1918, Wilson summoned House to Washington and the two began hammering out, in complete secrecy, the president s first address on the League of Nations, which was delivered to Congress on 8 January 1918.
On 8 July 1919, Wilson returned to the United States and embarked on a nation-wide campaign to secure the support of the American people for their country s entry into the League.
In the first half of 2005, he stayed at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C., implementing a research project: Status of the new Poland in the Eastern Europe s space ”.
On 3 October, the independents, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson, voted with the Opposition in the House of Representatives to reject Fadden s budget and the government fell -- to date, the last time a sitting government has been defeated in the House.
The album ( released on Gigitone Records ) was produced by Jeffrey Foskett, who has worked extensively with Brian Wilson and played on Wilson s 2004 Grammy-winning version of SMiLE.
Roger North ( 1695 ) said ‘ Nothing comes so near or rather imitates so much an excellent voice as a cornett pipe ; but the labour of the lips is too great and it is seldom well sounded ( see Wilson, 1959 ).
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.
Altogether, the increases made in pensions and other benefits during Wilson s first year in office were the largest ever real term increases carried out up until that point.
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.
In 1967, Wilson s government decided to spend £ 16 million, mainly in Educational Priority Areas ”, over the next two years.
As noted by Brian Lapping, the Community Development Projects were also designed to test the view that within poor communities local residents could articulate local grievances, get conditions in their areas improved, and provide some kind of political leadership, in a way that the existing political structure had failed to do, largely because these areas of intense poverty were rarely big enough to be electorally important .” In assessing the First Wilson Government s efforts to uplift the poorest members of British society via the establishment of the Community Development Projects and the designation of the Educational Priority Areas, Brian Lapping noted that
A number of private members bills related to consumer affairs, put forward by Co-operative MPs, became law under the First Wilson Government, and much of the consumer legislation taken for granted by contemporary British shoppers can be attributed to the legislation passed during this period.
He was a particular friend of Israeli Premier Golda Meir, though her tenure largely coincided with Wilson s 1970 – 1974 hiatus.
The British " retreat from Empire " had made headway by 1964 and was to continue during Wilson s administration.
Wilson s immediate recourse was to the United Nations, and in 1965, the Security Council imposed sanctions, which were to last until official independence in 1979.
The matter was still unresolved at the time of Wilson s resignation in 1976.
The government also failed to meet its 1964 manifesto commitment to tie increases in national insurance benefits to increases in average earnings, although this reform would later be implemented during Wilson s second premiership in 1975.
According to Brian Lapping, this would have been Wilson s largest reform of social security, had it been carried out.
* Mrs Wilson s Diaries ( omnibus of first two books with a few additional drawings ) Richard Ingrams and John Wells ( Sphere, 1966 )

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Snowflake s ( ice crystals ) by Wilson Bentley, 1902
Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.
Snowflake s by Wilson Bentley, 1902
With Private Eye riding the satire boom, Peter Cook soon took an interest and contributed two serials recounting the bizarre adventures of Sir Basil Nardly-Strobes and the Rhandi Phurr, both of which were admirably illustrated by Rushton, as was " Mrs Wilsons Diary ".

Wilson and farewell
The final three Supremes ( Scherrie, Mary, and Susaye ) officially disbanded in 1977 with a farewell concert in London, with Supremes founding member Mary Wilson announcing that she would embark on a solo career.

Wilson and address
* Wilson, James R., " Doctoral colloquium keynote address conduct, misconduct, and cargo cult science ".
Instead, the address was written and then sent to Congress to be read by a clerk until 1913 when Woodrow Wilson re-established the practice despite some initial controversy.
* John Wyndham lived at the Penn Club in Tavistock Square ( 1924-38 ) and then ( except for 1943-46 Army service ) at the Club's new address at 21-22 Bedford Place, off Russell Square ( its present address ), until his marriage to fellow Penn Club adjoining room resident Grace Isabel Wilson in 1963.
In his Armistice Day address to Congress, Wilson was sensitive to the psychological toll of the lean War years: " Hunger does not breed reform ; it breeds madness ," he remarked.
President Woodrow Wilson in his December 7, 1915 State of the Union address asked Congress for the legislation:
Wilson had regarded himself as Irish ”, and to the end of his life Currygrane, County Longford was the first address in his Who s Who ” entry.
In 2011, she received an honorary doctorate from Smith College, and delivered the commencement address at Warren Wilson College.
To address these and other nagging questions, Wilson issued two important documents.
Wilson asked U. S. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield to let the university use a Rochester, Michigan mailing address, even though the main part of the campus was in Pontiac Township.
In fact his friend George Wilson used to relate that one day, when they were dining together at a table d ' hôte at Versailles, he saw Dumont engaged in writing the most celebrated paragraph of Mirabeau's address to the king for the removal of the troops.
On September 15, 2009, Jones was one of only seven Republicans to vote for a resolution of disapproval of fellow Representative Joe Wilson for his actions during President Obama's address to a Joint Session of Congress on September 9, 2009.
* Commencement at Warren Wilson College: A great class hears a great address ( 2010 )
On September 15, 2009, Inglis was one of seven Republicans to cross party lines in voting to disapprove fellow South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson for a lack of decorum during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress.
Burns was particularly infuriated with President Wilson because he had told them he would support the Committee on Suffrage, but then never mentioned his promise in his address to Congress.
When a delegation of women from NAWSA tried to meet with him to address this incident and register their protest, Wilson claimed to be ill. A few days later, Wilson reneged his vow to support suffrage and said he would not impose his private views on Congress.
Following the Armistice, when Wilson pressed the Senate to support the United States ' membership in the League of Nations, Kenyon became a member of the moderate faction known as the " mild reservationists ," who allowed for the possibility of membership so long as the treaty were amended to address a specified list of reservations held by those senators and pursued compromise solutions.
After its defeat, Sherman delivered an address he called " a funeral oration over the defunct remains " of the treaty, and said it was one of the few times that he founf himself in agreement with Wilson.
Liminal later contributed to the Cotswold Water Park's twenty year strategic plan, working with masterplanning consultants Scott Wilson and building on the research techniques they developed for the Warwick Bar project on a series of proposals which address the soundscape of the water park.
* In an address at the annual Woodrow Wilson Foundation dinner in Washington, President Roosevelt announced a change in American foreign policy, declaring that " the definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention.
In 1966 Wilson gave the address at the memorial service for the wartime General Officer Commanding ( Malaya ), Arthur Ernest Percival, which was held in St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.
In addition to bringing back the tradition of delivering a State of Union Address, Woodrow Wilson was the first President since John Adams to address Congress on specific topics.

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