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In the campaign Wilson promoted the " New Freedom ", emphasizing limited federal government and opposition to monopoly powers, often after consultation with his chief advisor Louis D. Brandeis.
Brian Douglas Wilson ( born June 20, 1942 ) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys.
The new station was designed by the Great Eastern's chief engineer, Edward Wilson, and was built by John Mowlem & Co. on a site which had been occupied by Bethlem Royal Hospital from the 13th century to the 17th century.
It introduced two new regular characters: Joanne St. John ( played by Lois Nettleton ), the chief ’ s sometime-girlfriend and owner of the local diner ; and Officer Wilson Sweet ( played by Geoffrey Thorne ).
Mortimer Wilson Warner, a local pioneer, is credited with having suggested that the town be named Kanosh in honor of the wise tribal chief.
Fleming served in the photographic section during World War I, and acted as chief photographer for President Woodrow Wilson in Versailles, France.
The chief figure in the movement was the prophet of peace, Jack Wilson, known as Wovoka among the Paiute.
The American critic Edmund Wilson wrote in the New Republic of 21 September, 1932, not long after Strachey's death " Lytton Strachey's chief mission, of course, was to take down once and for all the pretensions of the Victorian age to moral superiority ... neither the Americans nor the English have ever, since Eminent Victorians appeared, been able to feel quite the same about the legends that had dominated their pasts.
For the last two years of the war, Trist was chief psychologist to the civil resettlements units ( CRUs ) for repatriated prisoners of war, working to schemes devised by Tommy Wilson and Wilfred Bion.
He played with Fletcher Henderson in 1930 and 1931, becoming his chief arranger in this time, then briefly led the Detroit-based McKinney's Cotton Pickers before returning to New York in 1932 to lead his own band, which included such swing stars as Leon " Chu " Berry ( tenor saxophone ), Teddy Wilson ( piano ), Sid Catlett ( drums ), and Dicky Wells ( trombone ).
Wilson, at this stage still enjoying cordial relations with Lloyd George, spent the equivalent of four months at Versailles as Britain's chief military adviser at the Paris Peace Conference.
On Wednesday morning, November 18, 1953, about a week before Thanksgiving, a group from the SO Division, including Vincent Ruwet, chief of the division, John Schwab, Frank Olson, Ben Wilson, Gerald Yonetz, and John Malinowski, drove out to the retreat ... The Detrick group was met at the lodge by Sid Gottlieb, his deputy Robert Lashbrook, and a couple of others from the CIA .... On the second day of the retreat, after dinner, Gottlieb spiked a bottle of Cointreau with a small quantity of a substance that he and his TSS colleagues privately referred to as " serunin " but which was in fact lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD.
In May 2010, Wilson signed a deal to terminate his employment as METRO president and chief executive officer.
* Chief Judge Wilson Isaac, chief judge of the Māori Land Court.
After Halpern's retirement in 1958, Dick Wilson became chief editor and publisher.
The original pilot episode, set in 1948, involved former bank manager and Home Guard Captain George Mainwaring ( Arthur Lowe ) deciding to renovate a decrepit seaside pier in the fictional town of Frambourne-on-Sea, only to find when applying for a bank loan that the manager of the local branch is his former chief cashier and Home Guard Sergeant Arthur Wilson ( John Le Mesurier ).
Although Wilson never had a female chief of staff, his office was filled with gorgeous women who tirelessly helped the congressman.
As Collins's chief intelligence officer in London, Maguire became the centre of Scotland Yard's investigation into the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson.
In 1919 Wilson moved to Remy Electric, a General Motors subsidiary, as chief engineer and sales manager.
In the Plame affair, Scooter Libby, convicted chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, told special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that Russert told him of the identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame ( Mrs. Joseph C. Wilson ).
However, just before Sheridan's decisive Battle of Cedar Creek in October 1864, Wilson was upgraded to brevet major general of volunteers and transferred back to the West to become chief of cavalry for the Military Division of the Mississippi under Sherman.
* Red mercury appears in the novel Blood is Dirt, by Robert Wilson, as a nuclear material sought by a corrupt West-African tribal chief.
Farmer established the Polly Farmer Foundation, joined by Sir Ronald Wilson, former High Court judge, Fred Chaney, former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and Greg Durham, chief executive of Geelong Football Club.
Although President Eisenhower continued to be, as during the Wilson and McElroy periods, the chief author of defense policy and the ultimate decision-maker, Gates appeared to operate with more authority and independence than his immediate predecessors, especially in areas such as strategic policy and planning.
When Wilson attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 where the Treaty of Versailles was worked out, he brought only three advisors, including one medieval historian Charles Haskins, serving as chief of the Western European division of the American commission.

Wilson and staff
Henry Hall Wilson, a student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned guest conductor for a Sousa march, the `` Stars and Stripes Forever ''.
He said he contacted a friend, Henry Hall Wilson, on the President's staff and asked whether his orchestra could play, in the series.
In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position in California by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained on the staff until his death.
Larry Dierker and Don Wilson had winning records, but the pitching staff as a whole had an off season.
Marshall informed the cabinet that the only cases in which he would assume the presidency were a joint resolution of Congress calling on him to do so, or an official communication from Wilson or his staff asserting his inability to perform his duties.
Finally, despite the fact that Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson insisted that more than membership in an organization was required for a warrant, Hoover worked with more compliant Labor officials and overwhelmed Labor staff to get the warrants he wanted.
During the Wilson era, Pitching coaches Jim Frisbee ( 2005 ) and Johnny Ruffin ( 2006 ) have filled in during an absence, although Dunn has been on staff.
After a knee wound in August 1941, which almost cost him his right leg, Hogg was deemed too old for further front-line service, and later served on the staff of General " Jumbo " Wilson before leaving the army with the rank of major.
One biographer reported that the actual problem was that Wilson, who had been prescribed massive amounts of psychotropic drugs by Landy's staff since 1983, had developed tardive dyskinesia, a neurological condition marked by involuntary, repetitive movements, that develops in about 20 % of patients treated with anti-psychotic drugs for a long period of time.
There were even a few members of the BBC's staff who were not sorry when Steuart Wilson, a BBC executive with a private grudge against Boult, engineered Boult's retirement in 1950, though many profoundly regretted it.
One night, while opening up for Jackie Wilson, they did a spontaneous cover of Wilson's " Lonely Teardrops ", which caught the eye of a scout for RCA, who immediately told staff of the brothers.
When House's staff begin to wonder what dark meaning to put to House throwing away the expensive Christmas gift of the book, a bemused Wilson begins making up a story about House having a brief, unhappy affair with a nurse named Irene Adler whom he will always consider " the woman ".
Early in August, General Archibald Wavell was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Command, and he sent reinforcements which had been sought by Wilson, initially the Indian 4th Infantry Division and advanced elements of 6th Australian Division and, as the build up at Mersa Matruh continued, Richard O ' Connor and his staff at 7th Infantry Division in Palestine were moved to Egypt to reinforce Wilson's command structure there.
John Wilson ( Christopher North ) and Lockhart had joined its staff in 1817.
Wilson was a staff officer, Sub Chief of Staff to the BEF and often acting as liaison officer to the French Army from the start of First World War.
During the Calais Affair ( whilst Wilson was away in Russia ) Lloyd George had attempted to sideline Haig to control of supply and logistics, whilst Nivelle, the French Commander-in-Chief, would exercise operational command of the British Forces, through a British staff officer – Wilson was probably earmarked for this job.
Gough wrote to Stamfordham ( i. e. for the King to see ) complaining of how Wilson had made little impact either as a staff officer in 1914 or as a corps commander, but had a great reputation throughout the army for intrigue and for " talk ".
However, Rawlinson was unimpressed by the calibre of Wilson ’ s staff and the young Archibald Wavell thought the atmosphere overly pessimistic.
Wilson had his staff play a “ war game ”, which he demonstrated to important visitors and the contents of which became Joint Note 12.
Foch was pleased at Wilson ’ s appointment, although Haig noted in his diary ( 25 February ) that Wilson was no longer so keen on a strong staff under Rawlinson, his successor at Versailles.
Wilson and his staff did not agree with Lloyd George's insistence on retaining an occupation force in Turkey and his support for Greek territorial ambitions in Asia Minor ( Treaty of Sèvres, 1920 ).
Callwell ’ s 2 volume “ Life and Diaries ” in 1927 damaged Wilson ’ s reputation – the “ New Statesman ” thought they showed him to be “ the typically stupid militarist … fundamentally a fool ” Sir Charles Deedes, who had studied under him at Staff College and later served on his staff, commented that Wilson came across in the diaries as “ an ambitious, volatile and even fatuous character, an intriguer concerned mainly with his own career ” and that this was “ far from the truth ” – Deedes commented that Wilson ’ s ability to see both sides of a question and inability to make a decision and stick to it made him a poor corps commander but a “ patient, lucid and fair ” adviser.

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