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His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.
" 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.
( Harold Wilson did manage a total of almost eight year as prime minister, but it was across two different spells between 1964 and 1976.
Roosevelt and Pinchot supported the dam, as did President Woodrow Wilson.
The first official history of MI5, The Defence of the Realm published in 2009, tacitly confirmed that there was a plot against Wilson and that MI5 did have a file on him.
This did not happen and the presidency, having been damaged by three late nineteenth and early twentieth century assassinations ( Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ) and one impeachment ( Johnson ), reasserted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
That success did not last long, as post-war domestic problems, Albanian resistance, and pressure from United States President Woodrow Wilson, forced Italy to pull out in 1920.
In spite of this, it seems that “ many poets did not object to and some must have preferred baroque juxtapositions of unlike kennings and neutral or incongruous verbs in their verses ” ( Foote & Wilson ( 1970 ), p. 332 ).
During Marshall's second term he delivered morale-boosting speeches across the nation during World War I and became the first vice president to hold cabinet meetings, which he did while Wilson was in Europe.
Before this, presidents used the vice president ( who serves as president of the senate ) as a go-between ; Wilson used the opportunity to show that he did not trust Marshall with delicate business.
However, the Court did uphold some economic regulation such as state prohibition laws ( Mugler v. Kansas ), laws declaring maximum hours for mine workers ( Holden v. Hardy, 1898 ), laws declaring maximum hours for female workers ( Muller v. Oregon, 1908 ), President Wilson's intervention in a railroad strike ( Wilson v. New, 1917 ), as well as federal laws regulating narcotics ( United States v. Doremus, 1919 ).
Wilson and Shea did plan to collaborate again on a true sequel, Bride of Illuminatus, taking place in 2026.
Wilson was delighted with the adaptation, saying: " I was thunderstruck at what a magnificent job they did in capturing the exact tone and mixture of fantasy and reality in the book.
On 25 February, he made another speech at Shipley and urged a vote for Labour and saying he did not believe the claim that Wilson would renege his commitment to renegotiation, which Powell believed was ironic because of Heath's premiership: " In acrobatics Harold Wilson, for all his nimbleness and skill, is simply no match for the breathtaking, thoroughgoing efficiency of the present Prime Minister ".
Wilson did well at school and, although he missed getting a scholarship, he obtained an exhibition ; which, when topped up by a county grant, enabled him to study Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1934.
Atkinson, social security received much more attention from the First Wilson Government than it did during the previous thirteen years of Conservative government.
In May 1966, Wilson announced 30 % pay rises for doctors and dentists-a move which did not prove popular with unions, as the national pay policy at the time was for rises of between 3 % and 3. 5 %.
Although the First Wilson Government had enacted a wide range of social reforms and arguably did much to reduce social inequalities during its time in office, the economic difficulties that it faced led to austerity measures being imposed on numerous occasions, forcing the government to abandon some of its key policy goals.
Wilson was not especially active in the House of Lords, although he did initiate a debate on unemployment in May 1984.
Wilson regarded himself as a " man of the people " and did much to promote this image, contrasting himself with the stereotypical aristocratic conservatives who had preceded him.
His wife Mary requested that the eight-foot tall monument did not show Wilson holding his famous pipe as she feared it would make the representation a caricature.
However, he did gain the support of right-wingers, such as Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland, who wanted to prevent Wilson from being elected leader but who also didn't trust George Brown.
A trip to the Western Design Center in Phoenix, where the 6502 was being updated by what was effectively a single-person company, showed Acorn engineers Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson that they did not need massive resources and state-of-the-art R & D facilities.
Wilson gave public lectures to spread his message, but did not form any organisation or movement.

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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.
One legacy not drawn from the Group was anonymity, which came about due to AA wishing to avoid the publicity-seeking practices of the Oxford Group and to not promote, Wilson said, " erratic public characters who through broken anonymity might get drunk and destroy confidence in us.
In 1937, Wilson and Smith could count 40 alcoholic men they had helped to get sober, and two years later they counted 100 members, including one woman.
Spurling claimed that to get revenge, Marmaduke Wetherell committed the hoax, with the help of Chris Spurling ( a sculpture specialist ), his son Ian Marmaduke, who bought the material for the fake, and Maurice Chambers ( an insurance agent ), who asked surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to offer the pictures to the Daily Mail.
The 2002 television movie Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story is based on a true story about a woman who was secretly videotaped, and subsequently helped to get laws against voyeurism passed in parts of the United States.
The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).
Wilson uses tariff, currency and anti-trust laws to prime the pump and get the economy working in a 1913 political cartoon
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.
Such attitudes are summarized in the popular statement, " Perception is reality " or " Life is how you perceive reality " or " reality is what you can get away with " ( Robert Anton Wilson ), and they indicate anti-realism – that is, the view that there is no objective reality, whether acknowledged explicitly or not.
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
Wilson himself tried to get a third term in 1920, by deadlocking the convention.
" That day, Brian Wilson said the band is going to get back together to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
Wilson added that he was at Capitol Records recently with Love and Jardine, but is still not exactly certain what the future holds: “ We're going to get together a little bit before we do it .” To rehearse?
* Flip Wilson, whose character, the female Geraldine, originated the catchphrases " What you see is what you get " and " The devil made me do it ".
On the commentary track, however, Tony Wilson makes it clear that this is a " bit unfair " because Vini had a " real audience ": " you can take him to Portugal and you get two thousand people, you can take him to Paris and you get eight hundred people, and in Manchester you get five or six hundred ".
In the earlier episodes the series makes many references to the policy of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, with comments like " My top lip went all stiff and dead, as if it had been nationalised " and " When Wales get home rule, do you think they'll nationalise Clive Jenkins ".
Photography collector Michael Wilson observed " Thousands of commercial photographers and a hundred times as many amateurs were producing millions of photographs annually … The decline in the quality of professional work and the deluge of snapshots ( a term borrowed from hunting, meaning to get off a quick shot without taking the time to aim ) resulted in a world awash with technically good but aesthetically indifferent photographs.
Wilson realized that by scheduling the Golden Raspberry Awards prior to the Academy Awards, the ceremony would get more press coverage: " We finally figured out you couldn't compete with the Oscars on Oscar night, but if you went the night before, when the press from all over the world are here and they are looking for something to do, it could well catch on ," he said to BBC News.
Wilson confessed to Derby that he did not get on with Haig or Robertson and told Robertson he wanted to return to commanding a corps.
Brock Millman argued that the threat to stand for Parliament was blackmail to get a military job out of Lloyd George, but Keith Jeffery rejects this, arguing that Wilson would have been no threat as a new MP but as a military adviser was a useful rival to Robertson, whom by July 1917 French was telling Wilson Lloyd George wanted to remove.
Wilson wanted lists of known Sinn Feiners published on church doors and wanted to “ shoot ( five IRA men for each policeman killed ) by roster seeing that we cannot get evidence ”.

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