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Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.
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He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.
The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.
Serene ( Mrs. Wilson ), 23, was born in Budapest and raised in Manhattan.
It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
Wilson was told that it was a sort of hotel for white people, which seemed to him rather queer.
In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.
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.
When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.
And after Wilson had talked to Mrs. Catt and to others, he was absolutely amazed.
The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.
Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.
The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.
Wilson, shackled and snarling, was thrown with the other prisoners and was soon joined by Green, McKee and McKinley.
The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.
Ebby Thacher, Wilson's former drinking buddy and a Grouper who followed the evangelical bent and sought out other alcoholics, presented himself to Wilson telling him he had " got religion " and was sober, and that Wilson could do the same if he set aside objections to religion and formed, instead, a personal idea of God, " another power " or " higher power ".
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Shortly thereafter, Andy made posthumous appearances in the strip, first declaring " Brian Wilson is God " in a note found in his hand ( having been listening to Pet Sounds on CD as he died ), and then making several more days of appearances in a self-made video shown during his memorial service.
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`` From a man in St. Louis '', Wilson said.
`` I'll bet that's as close as you've been to a man since you were a baby '', Wilson said.
Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.
Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone -- a Jimmy Foxx ( 58 in 1932 ) or a Hank Greenberg ( 58 in 1938 ) or a Hack Wilson ( 56 in 1930 ) -- made the bid.
Tillotson had reported the man to Gansevoort and an hour later, with back turned, had been attacked by Wilson, brandishing the weapon.
While he doubts this is so, he nonetheless states: “ In his unrelated state, man has a natural right to his property, to his character, to liberty, and to safety .” James Wilson asks whether “ the primary and principal object in the institution of government … was … to acquire new rights by human establishment?
The American presence is remembered today by the Woodrow Wilson bridge over the Loire, which was officially opened in July 1918 and bears the name of the man who was President of the USA from 1912 to 1920.
In his last scholarly work in 1908, Constitutional Government of the United States, Wilson said that the presidency " will be as big as and as influential as the man who occupies it ".
As Wilson put it, " public attention must be easily directed, in each case of good or bad administration, to just the man deserving of praise or blame.
It was first recorded in January 1798 when John Price and James Wilson, a white man who had adopted Aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales.
* December 30 – Discovery Expedition: Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82 ° S.
* In 1988, Timothy Wilson Spencer was the first man in Virginia to be sentenced to death through DNA testing, for several rape and murder charges.
At one point, Wilson wrote: " While the flower of American youth was pouring out its blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood behind the lines sniping, attacking, and denouncing them .... This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration.
" Wilson may have been an alias for Mason, a front man for his criminal operation, or another outlaw leader who ran a gang of pirates in the region.
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.
Critic J. Dover Wilson notes that Richard's double nature as man and martyr is the dilemma that runs through the play eventually leading to Richard's death.
Scatman Crothers portrayed Louie Wilson, Ed's friend and garbage man ; Bonnie Boland played Mabel, the mail lady ; Isaac Ruiz portrayed Mando, Chico's friend ; and Ronny Graham played Rev.
Through all of the television characters that he played, he was most noted for his supporting role Louie Wilson ( the garbage man ) on the sitcom Chico and the Man.
In 1958 Jimmy Wilson, a black man, was sentenced to death by a jury in Marion for stealing $ 1. 95 from Estelle Barker.
Newnan was host to the trial in 1948 of wealthy landowner John Wallace, the first white man in the south to be condemned to death by the testimony of African Americans, two field hands who were made to help with burning the body of murdered white sharecropper Wilson Turner.
As an artist and repertory man for King Records he discovered Jackie Wilson, Hank Ballard, and Little Willie John, among others.
Never a wealthy man, when Field Marshal Lord Wilson died in 1964, his estate was probated at 2, 952 pounds sterling ( roughly ₤ 100, 000 today ).
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