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Arlington County v. White

The taxpayers invoked the "Dillon rule", a restrictive interpretation of local government power that was established by the 19th century judge and legal scholar, John Forrest Dillon, and adopted by Virginia as well as many other states.


Arthur White

Arthur L. White (1907–1991), Seventh-day Adventist and authority on his grandmother Ellen White

Benjamin Harris Babbidge

Benjamin Harris Babbidge was a blacksmith, having completed an apprenticeship with the shipbuilders J. & W. White of Cowes.

Blazer's Scouts

Colonel Carr B. White organized the original cavalry company (initially known as the Brigade Scouts or Spencer's Scouts) at Fayetteville, West Virginia, in mid-September 1863.

Brad Heller

Students include Judge Reinhold, Mary Gilbert, David A. R. White, Masi Oka, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Joelle James (recording artist – recently signed with Interscope Records and has duet with rapper Chris Brown on his Boy in Detention album).

Brook Park, Ohio

Coyne is most known for the 2001 Cleveland Hopkins International Airport runway extension deal with then Mayor of Cleveland Michael R. White, which seceded Brook Park land including homes and the International Exposition Center (IX Center) to Cleveland, Ohio in exchange for NASA Glenn Research Center and 10 years of tax revenues from the IX Center.

Campbell P. White

White was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, to October 2, 1835, when he resigned before the 24th United States Congress met.

Charles E. Roberts Stable

The building was eventually converted into a residence by architect Charles E. White, Jr., Roberts' son-in-law and an employee in Wright's studio in the years 1903-1905.

Compton I. White, Jr.

A Democrat, he was elected to the open seat in the first district in 1962 and re-elected in 1964.

White was re-elected in the Democratic landslide of 1964, but was defeated for a third term in 1966 by Republican state senator Jim McClure of Payette.

Daniel R. White

founded by former television gag writer and presidential speechwriter Robert Orben.

Demographics of Denver

The current Denver mayor, Michael Hancock, elected in 2011, is also African-American, as are city councilwoman Allegra "Happy" Haynes and Denver police chief Robert C. White.

Dick Waterman

In 1963, he began to promote local shows with blues artists including Mississippi John Hurt and Booker "Bukka" White.

Edwin Q. White

He was sent to Seoul to help the AP's South Korean staff, who were dealing with increasing restriction on the media from the government of former President Chun Doo-hwan.

Eugene M. Zuckert

Both he and Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White opposed the administration's decision to cut the XB-70 bomber.

Fiddlin' Arthur Smith

In various prewar lineups Smith recorded singles on Bluebird, Victor, Regal Zonophone (Australia), The Twin (India), and Montgomery Ward labels, and in the postwar years on Black & White, Capitol, and Urban.

Frank Filchock

The Pirates' first first-round draft choice that year was Byron (Whizzer) White of Colorado, who later became a U.S. Supreme Court judge.

George E. White

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Gilbert F. White

White worked under President Johnson in committees that advised the establishment of the National Flood Insurance Program – although he was not happy when his cautions were ignored and the NFIP was rolled out too quickly.

Herbert White

Herbert S. White (born 1927), American professor of library science

Hillsboro Cemetery

Located in Hillsboro, Ohio, Hillsboro Cemetery is home to multiple notable interments, including baseball player Kirby White and politicians Joseph J. McDowell, John Armstrong Smith, Jacob J. Pugsley, Allen Trimble and Wilbur M. White.

Hugh L. White

The vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and an NAACP worker, Lee had been urging African-Americans in the Mississippi Delta to register and vote.

Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do

Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do is a collection of prose written by E. B. White (the author of children's books Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, as well as co-author of The Elements of Style), in conjunction with James Thurber (known for such short stories as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty).

Jesse White

Jesse J. White, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Jo Jo White

Additionally, he appeared in two movies with diminutive roles: 1980's Inside Moves and 2007's The Game Plan, in which his son, actor Brian J. White, also starred.

John T. White

His poem "Maryland, My Maryland," written in 1894 as an alternate set of lyrics for the Maryland state song has recently seen renewed attention as it has been considered by the Maryland House of Delegates in 2009 to officially replace the existing lyrics by James Ryder Randall, which have been criticized for their Confederate sympathies and martial tone.

Joseph G. Butler, Jr.

In a passage that praised the late industrialist's vision as well as its realization, the magazine's editors wrote: "To set the strictly American tone of the place, he planted a befeathered bronze Indian in front of the $500,000 collonaded building designed by the Manhattan firm of McKim, Mead & White. With Youngstown University nearby, the two blocks surrounding the museum soon developed into the cultural strip of the U.S.'s third biggest steel center".

Joseph W. White

He was an unsuccessful for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Leonard D. White

White was born in Acton, Massachusetts to John Sidney White and Bertha H. (Dupee) White.

Marian B. Tasco

She was elected to the seat in 1987, defeating two other challengers in the Democratic primary, after incumbent Democratic Councilman John White resigned from Council that January.

Michael L. White

Behind the scenes, he was a co-writer and producer on the 1992-1993 TV Series, Computer Doctor and executive producer for the 1993 series, Spirit of Television.

Michael R. White

He also declared October 30, 1994 "Bone Thugs~N~Harmony Day" in the city of Cleveland to honor the hometown rappers.

Passive voice

Many commentators, notably George Orwell in his essay "Politics and the English Language" and Strunk & White in The Elements of Style, have urged minimizing use of the passive voice.

Pat White

Patrick H. White (1832–1915), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

Patricia Breckenridge

Breckenridge was one of three candidates Missouri's Appellate Judicial Commission proposed to governor Matt Blunt to replace retiring Judge Ronnie White on the Missouri Supreme Court.

Philip White

Philip L. White (1923–2009), American historian and civic activist

R. J. Cutler

Black. White. was a television series on FX television and featured two families—one white, the other black—who traded places and races.

Septimus Norris

He worked for the Norris firm under William's management, but did not continue under Richard's; railway historian John H. White, Jr. believes animosity existed between Septimus and Richard.

Shiva Naipaul

He then decided to concentrate on journalism, and wrote two non-fiction works, North of South (1978) and Black & White (1980), before returning to the novel form in the 1980s with Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), a departure from his two earlier comic novels set in Trinidad, as well as a collection of fiction and non-fiction, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984).

Stylez

Stylez G. White (born 1979), American football defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League

Terri L. White

In 2007, while White was serving as the Department's Director of Communications and Public Policy, then Commissioner Terry Cline resigned after being nominated by (then) President of the United States George W. Bush to become the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Theodore H. White

White graduated from Harvard in 1938 summa cum laude (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was a classmate), with a degree in Chinese history and studies, the first student of John K. Fairbank.

Three Colors: White

Using his position as a deceptively foolish bodyguard, Karol spies on his bosses and discovers their scheme to purchase different pieces of land that they knew were going to be targeted by big companies for development and resell for large profits.

Tim D. White

White was born in Los Angeles County, California and raised in Lake Arrowhead in neighboring San Bernardino County.

Until It's Gone

American actor Brian J. White and actress Malinda Williams star in the clip, which centers on two characters having words in their automobile, leading to a devastating accident.

Web decoration

It is claimed that E. B. White came up with the idea of a writing spider for his book Charlotte's Web after observing stabilimenta in a spider web.

William C. White

His brother Edson White was instrumental in setting up the Adventist work among blacks in the southern U.S.

William H. White

The keeping of the Register of Architects is now governed by the Architects Act 1997, and the name of the body responsible for the Register has been changed from the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) to the Architects Registration Board (ARB).


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