Mark W. Willis, chief executive officer (CEO) of Keller Williams Realty, Inc.
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During the turbulent, riot-torn '60s, in one of the most racially polarized cities in the country, this same parcel witnessed the creation and rise of an urban paradise; imagined, engineered, owned and operated by a young African-American entrepreneur, Winston E. Willis.
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Although scores of other African-American property owners were driven out of the 105th and Euclid area and defeated under dubious land-grab tactics, one man, Winston E. Willis, has continued his decades-long struggle to defend his property rights.
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Shortly thereafter, seizing the moment and purchasing commercial properties one after another, Winston E. Willis set about cleaning up the financially devastated corner block.
Willis was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).
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He served as chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors during the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.
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An elaborate state funeral was held for him in the ʻIolani Palace (temporarily renamed the Executive Building).
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Willis' mission was deemed a failure when Sanford B. Dole sent a written reply declining the surrender of his authority to the deposed queen.
On March 23, 2012, Federal Judge Mark W. Bennett vacated Johnson's death sentence, citing a failure to introduce evidence about her mental state from an "alarmingly dysfunctional" defense team.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.
It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greer Garson), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.
In 1951, Willis and Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr. co-founded the "Citizens for Eisenhower" movement in an attempt to secure the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
:For the New York politician, see Charles T. Willis.
He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, a guest lecturer at the Marine Corps University, a post-doctoral research fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Mark W. Clark Professor of History at The Citadel.
However in 2009, in an article titled "A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III," Mark W. Chase and James L. Reveal proposed a much broader sense for the Equisetopsida class name.
General Mark Clark, commander of the US Fifth Army, asked for two volunteers who would take messages back to the partisans in order to coordinate their activities towards the liberation of the city of Arezzo which was planned for July 14.
Willis's official papers were donated to and are open for research at the Ohio Historical Society.
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During his Senate tenure, Willis served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions, which had jurisdiction over territories including Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, from 1923 to 1928.
Citing "voter confusion", Willis then appealed that decision to the South Carolina Democratic Party, who ruled in favor of Wukela, and denied the mayor's request for another primary election.
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The mayor then appealed the circuit court's decision to the South Carolina Supreme Court, but the case was similarly dismissed.
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Moore, in turn, was later defeated in the general election by Republican Governor Mark Sanford.
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In 2004, the progressive Wukela unsuccessfully challenged Florence's senior Republican state senator, Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr.
Although no Republican had won that office since the height of national Republican strength in 1927, before the Great Depression, Donaldson lost the general election to Republican Simeon S. Willis, 279,144 to 270,525, with 3,239 votes going to the Prohibition Party candidate.
Domengeaux did not seek reelection to Congress in 1948; instead he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in a race ultimately won by Russell B. Long, son of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. He was succeeded in the House by the freshman State Senator Edwin Edward Willis of St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish.
Theatre World, founded in 1945, covers the complete statistical and photographic Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional theatre seasons, major theatrical awards, obituaries, and the longest Broadway and Off-Broadway runs, among other categories.
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The awards are currently chosen by a committee of New York Drama Critics and hosted by Peter Filichia.
Mark W. Clark (1896–1984), U.S. Army general during World War II and Korean War
Mark W. Olson (born 1943), U.S. Federal Reserve governor from 2001 to 2006
Mark Ellingson (1905 - 1993) was the 5th president of the Rochester Institute of Technology, succeeding John A. Randall, from 1936–1969.
He has been compared to Jacques Cousteau and Jane Goodall, and National Geographic has called him “the Indiana Jones of Entomology”.
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Moffett appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on May 23, 2007, and February 7, 2008, and in May is scheduled to appear for the third time on The Colbert Report.
Between 1971 and 1976, Olson served former Republican Representative Bill Frenzel of Minnesota, as Legislative Assistant for Banking Issues (1971–72), then as Director of his district office (1974–76).
He is also credited as a voice-over actor in the 1991 animated series Little Shop, based on the film Little Shop Of Horrors, in which he voiced the character Paine Driller.
Smith has appeared in New York “society” publications such as Gotham, Hamptons, Avenue and New York Social Diary.
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He is the author of Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (2004), and of Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts (2007).
More recently, Willis has turned his attention to the Gupta dynasty, publishing a monograph on Hindu ritual and the development of temples as land-holding institutions, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (2009).
The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (ISBN 0-89526-085-9) is a 2004 book written by Mark W. Smith.
Infighting among the state's Democrats combined with Willis's popular proposal to eliminate the state income tax carried him to a narrow victory over J. Lyter Donaldson.
Howard Willis: Manhunt: The Story of Stanley Graham: Christchurch: Whitcoulls: 1979: ISBN 0-7233-0629-X
In 1951, he was co-founder (with Charles F. Willis) of the Citizens for Eisenhower movement, which helped develop grass roots support for the presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He was candidate for Governor of South Dakota in the 2006 election on the Constitution Party ticket, receiving 4,006 votes for 1.2% of the total.
Opened in 1960, the Jazz Temple was the creation of 19-year-old Winston E. Willis, an African-American entrepreneur who was also a jazz enthusiast.
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The club’s name was chosen by the owner, Winston E. Willis, to symbolize a devout gathering place dedicated to the icons of the jazz world where these artists would be collectively enjoyed and appreciated.
Theatre World is the recipient of a 2001 Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre, presented by the American Theatre Wing, and on behalf of the publication, longtime editor-in-chief John Willis (1916-2010) accepted honors including the first Special Lucille Lortel Award, a Special Drama Desk Award, and the Broadway Theatre Institute (now The Theatre Museum) Lifetime Achievement Award.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore).
Archaeologist Michael D. Willis argued that Candragupta II did so in order to reflect a new concept of Hindu kingship, in which the monarch was seen as both the paramount sovereign (cakravartin) and the supreme devotee of the god Vișņu (paramabhāgavata).
In 2004, conservative lawyer Mark W. Smith wrote the New York Times Best Seller Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, which came with a "membership card" that made its owner an "official member of the VRWC."
The Willis–Campbell Act of 1921, sponsored by Sen. Frank B. Willis (R) of Ohio and Rep. Philip P. Campbell (R) of Kansas, prohibited doctors from prescribing beer or liquor as a “drug” to treat ailments.