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Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".
Following the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 by the German submarine U-20, Lansing backed Woodrow Wilson in issuing three notes of protest to the German government issued on 13 May, 9 June, and 21 July.
In early 1965 Burke again toured with Henry Wynn's Supersonic Attractions, performing in the newly-opened 50, 000-seat Atlanta Stadium, headlining with Jackie Wilson, and backed by B. B.
But the matter was made a political one ; the Tories still had a majority in the burgh council ; Wilson was powerfully backed by friends, Sir Walter Scott at their head ; and his adversaries played into his hands by attacking his moral character, which was not open to any fair reproach.
Wilson was privately scathing about what he called “ Hot Air, Aeroplanes & Arabs ”-Trenchard's plan for Air Defence backed by Arab levies, announced by Churchill at the Cairo Conference in July 1921-although glad at the reduction in military commitment, and wrote to Rawlinson that when trouble came Churchill would “ hop into an aeroplane and fly away, waving Ta-Ta to any poor bloody native who is stupid enough to back us ”.
Prior to that date, traffic backed up into Oxon Hill daily for decades as 250, 000-300, 000 vehicles crossed the Wilson Bridge.
When President Wilson needed to fill the position of Attorney General at the start of 1919, party officials, including Palmer's colleagues on the Democratic National Committee and many recipients of his patronage during his tenure as Alien Property Custodian, backed him against other candidates with stronger legal credentials.
Hill identified as a Republican and was, at times, active in the party, but he disliked Teddy Roosevelt's trust-busting, thought William Howard Taft was a disastrous choice for president to the point that he openly backed William Jennings Bryan in 1908 and Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916, though he eventually came to oppose Wilson some time after the end of World War I.
They worked closely with the production team of Gamble and Huff and producer / arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the O ’ Jays, the Stylistics, the Spinners, Wilson Pickett, and Billy Paul.
The convention was marked by a deadlock between the supporters of the Irish Catholic New York Governor Al Smith and former Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo ( the son-in-law of former President Woodrow Wilson ) whose candidacy was backed by the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan.
It was their sound, according to Mary Wilson ( of The Supremes ) that backed The Temptations, The Supremes, The Miracles, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, amongst other noteworthy bands during their tenure from 1959 to 1973.
The Memphis Cats had previously backed Wilson Pickett, King Curtis and Elvis Presley.
He was a former session musician who had worked with Wilson Pickett and had set up Tent Records Inc. to release the group's material, backed by RCA Records.
#* Written in 1974 and unreleased by The Beach Boys, this new version is by Brian Wilson in 2002 and backed by his live band

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Helton and Wilson — virtually the only experienced players on the team — struggled as well ; Helton hit just 20 homers, the fewest of his career, and missed the All-Star Game for the first time since 1999 and also went on the disabled list for the first time in his career.
With a new ballpark and increased revenue stream, the team showed rare interest in the top free agents on the market which included slugger Albert Pujols, pitchers C. J. Wilson and Ryan Madson.
Rookie Wilson pitched a no-hitter on June 18, the first pitched in team history.
In the 2006 offseason, the team signed Preston Wilson and moved Berkman to first base, ending the long tenure of Jeff Bagwell.
The new team quickly became a powerhouse, appearing in the playoffs 7 out of 10 seasons from 1976 to 1985, including one World Series championship and another pennant, led by stars such as George Brett, Frank White, Willie Wilson and Bret Saberhagen.
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.
Stephen McEveety will lead the production team and author N. D. Wilson has been tapped to write the script.
Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.
He joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College ( 1885 – 88 ) and then Wesleyan University ( 1888 – 90 ), where he also coached the football team and founded the debate team – still called the T. Woodrow Wilson debate team.
This partly reflected the preceding government's expansive fiscal policy in the run-up to the 1964 election, and the incoming Wilson team tightened the fiscal stance in response.
Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.
Davidson remained in Detroit, but appointed Tom Wilson as team president to handle day-to-day management of the team.
Wilson, Dudley, and Ludzik had helped make the Vipers one of the premier minor league hockey franchises, having won a Turner Cup in only their third season in Detroit ( the team had originally been based in Salt Lake City ).
The Ducks selected Ron Wilson to be the first coach in team history.
Wilson teamed with CIA manager Gust Avrakotos and formed a team of a few dozen insiders who greatly enhanced the support for the Mujahideen, funneling it through Zia ul-Haq's ISI.
However, due to the restrictions placed on the plan by Lousie Wilson and her team and the economic downturn of 2008, no developers submitted bids.
Louise Wilson and her team were voted out of office ( the Republicans took complete control of the Township Committee with the election of Ed Trzaska and Patricia Graham on November 2, 2010 ).
The 2008 – 2009 boys ' varsity football team played at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, home of the Buffalo Bills.
Assigned to work with songwriting / production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, Ross, Ballard, and Wilson subsequently released ten number-one US pop hits between 1964 and 1967, all of which featured Ross as lead.
Wildcat Wilson and Clyde Smith were named to the first team, while Curly Oden, Milt Rehnquist, and Gus Sonnenberg were placed on the second team.

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But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.
Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.
* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.
" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.
Writing in Cosmos, journalist Wilson da Silva reacted to Greenpeace's destruction of a genetically modified wheat crop in Ginninderra as another sign that the organization has " lost its way " and had degenerated into a " sad, dogmatic, reactionary phalanx of anti-science zealots who care not for evidence, but for publicity ".
He was a critic of President Woodrow Wilson and US entry into World War I.
Instead, his announcer, Don Wilson, incorporated speeches about Jell-O into the program at appropriate places, to Jack's feigned comic annoyance.
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.
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.
Second thoughts on this decision leaped immediately into the minds of such executives as Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and Charles Wilson, GM's President.
The act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on March 2, 1917.
Like Alan Wilson, Duane Allman played a key role in bringing slide guitar into rock music, through his work with The Allman Brothers Band, specifically on the 1971 live album At Fillmore East and with Derek and the Dominos ' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album.
Wilson " Bob " Tucker slipped so many of his fellow fans and authors into his works that doing so is called tuckerization.
Producer of their first three albums, Wilson, had been inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989 as an individual and again as a member of Daddy Cool in 2006.
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.
In 1919, Wilson engaged in an intense fight with Henry Cabot Lodge and the Republican-controlled Senate over giving the League of Nations power to force the U. S. into a war.
A Presbyterian of deep religious faith, Wilson appealed to a gospel of service and infused a profound sense of moralism into his idealistic internationalism, now referred to as " Wilsonian ".
Wilson would forever recall standing for a moment at Robert E. Lee's side and looking up into his face.
Wilson aspired, as he told alumni, " to transform thoughtless boys performing tasks into thinking men ".
Wilson wanted to integrate the proposed graduate building into the same area with the undergraduate colleges.
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.
In 1916, President Wilson warned against hyphenated Americans who, he charged, had " poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life.
Only once before — when Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to order the U. S. into World War I — had a sitting president addressed Congress at night.
Gibbs's lecture notes on vector calculus were privately printed in 1881 and 1884 for the use of his students, and were later adapted by Edwin Bidwell Wilson into a textbook, Vector Analysis, published in 1901.

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