He served as cabinet minister under prime ministers John A. Macdonald and John Abbott, but declined to serve under John Thompson.

In 1860, Abbott declined an appointment to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1861 declined the Democratic nomination for state attorney general.

Abbott and Bowell both found it difficult to lead the government from the Senate, however, and over time, the perceived legitimacy of the Senate declined.

A few hours after the encounter, Patterson telephoned Donald Abbott, whom Krantz described as " the only scientist of any stature to have demonstrated any serious interest in the ( Bigfoot ) subject ," hoping he would help them search for the creature.

Texas ' case was argued by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.

The film opens with Larry Talbot ( Lon Chaney, Jr .) making an urgent call from London to a Florida railway station where Chick Young ( Bud Abbott ) and Wilbur Grey ( Lou Costello ) work as baggage-clerks.

" Meanwhile, Neysa was involved for several years with the Broadway director George Abbott, leading her Algonquin Round Table crony Alexander Woollcott to crack that " we now call Neysa ’ s place in Port Washington the ' Abbottoir.

Prince drew inspiration from Federico Fellini's 8½ to the slapstick humor of Abbott and Costello ( the sequence involving the ladder, the telephone call from Mary to Christopher ).

The McGees ' regular routine with LaTrivia entailed Fibber and Molly misunderstanding a figure of speech, in much the same vein as Abbott & Costello's Who's On First?

", in exactly the same way Lou did in the Abbott and Costello movies, repeating a joke from Brooks ' Robin Hood sitcom When Things Were Rotten in which Van Patten shouted the line.

Another tavern, kept by William Abbott, was in business around the same time.

However, Casey, no longer trusting Brian and Charlie, plans to betray them at the same time, ordering his hit men, Abbott and Morley, to kill them during the robbery.

They break into her apartment, but at the same time, Morley and Abbott come looking for her.

She also played the same dignified, poised dowager in other movies, with W. C. Fields ( Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 1941 ) and ( Tales of Manhattan, 1942 ), Abbott and Costello ( Little Giant, 1946 ), Laurel and Hardy ( The Dancing Masters, 1943 ), Red Skelton ( Bathing Beauty, 1944 ), Jack Benny ( The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945 ), Wheeler and Woolsey and George " Spanky " McFarland ( Kentucky Kernels, 1934 ) and ( High Flyers, 1937, with Lupe Vélez thrown in for good measure ), radio comedian Joe Penner ( The Life of the Party, 1937 ), George " Gabby " Hayes ( Sunset in El Dorado ), and Danny Kaye ( Up In Arms, 1944 ), and on television with Martin and Lewis ( The Colgate Comedy Hour, December 1951 ).

The show's resident comics, Abbott and Costello and Henny Youngman, introduced their comedy to a nationwide radio audience aboard her show, while a series of sketches based on the Broadway production of the same name led to The Aldrich Family as separate hit series in its own right in 1940.

At the same time, as historian Richard H. Abbott observed, Tod also " battled with recalcitrant Democrats, unruly newspaper editors, draft rioters, and strange secret societies ".

Around the same time that Abbott's New Card Games was published, Abbott sent his maze, Traffic Maze in Floyd's Knob, to Martin Gardner.

The same year, he and Mellor co-created the children's medical drama Children's Ward, which ran for many years — Abbott regularly contributed scripts until 1992, then returned briefly to the show in 1996.

In July 2006, it was announced that the University of Salford had appointed Abbott as a visiting professor, and in the same month Manchester Metropolitan University awarded him with an honorary doctorate.

That same year, the company moved from Detroit to a larger facility in Cleveland and changed their name to the Abbott Motor Corporation.

William J. Abbott, Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales stepped in to the position the same day.

This is not the same man as the Abbott of St Albans.

Morrison left the series in 1924 to work in vaudeville, where his talents were featured on the same bills with such up and coming acts as Abbott and Costello and Jack Benny.

Reporter Abbott Combs made the same claim in December 1971.

Severn defeated Paul Varelans, David " Tank " Abbott, and UFC 6 tournament winner Oleg Taktarov all in the same night to capture the tournament title.

Levene also appeared in the USO Tour of this same Show ; the Radio Version ; the Musical version that opened on Broadway called Let It Ride ( 1961 ) as well as the 1969 Broadway Revival of the play directed by George Abbott, the original Broadway Director and co-author.

Believing that blacks would be culturally assimilated, Abbott wrote " It is just as natural for two races living together on the same soil to blend as it is for the waters of two river tributaries to mingle.

Abbott positioned his paper as a primary influence of these movements even before historians would, for he used the Defender to initiate and advertise a “ Great Northern Drive ” day, set for May 15, 1917.

No one in the audience knew of the death until after the show when Bud Abbott explained the events of the day, and how the phrase " The show must go on " had been epitomized by Lou that night.

* April 8 – One-handed pitcher Jim Abbott makes his major-league debut with the California Angels, without spending a single day in the minor leagues.

Abbott painted portraits of many figures of the day including leading seamen such as Admiral Nelson, Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley and Captain William Locker, astronomer Sir William Herschel, poet William Cowper, artists Francesco Bartolozzi and Joseph Nollekens, entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and industrialist John Wilkinson amongst others.

Abbott completed an Ironman Triathlon event in March 2010 at Port Macquarie, New South Wales and in April set out on a 9 day charity bike ride between Melbourne and Sydney, the annual Pollie Pedal, generating political debate about whether Abbott should have committed so much time to physical fitness.

In early 2004, Channel 4 screened Shameless, a new Abbott series very loosely based on his experiences and family life growing up in Burnley, although the action of the programme itself was changed to Manchester in the present day.

Over the next 26 years, she would eventually appear with many of the leading comics of her day, including Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope, W. C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chaplin, and Jimmy Durante.

Witt's perfect game is, to date, one of two no-hitters ever pitched on the final day of a Major League Baseball regular season, the other being the combined no-hitter pitched by Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers for the Oakland Athletics on September 28, 1975.

However there may be some exaggeration involved-studio logs indicate during the filming of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ) the entire crew, including Chaney took a two hour break during the filming of a transformation and filmed the rest of the scene later that day ( though the makeup for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein had been greatly redesigned and streamlined by Bud Westmore over the original Jack Pierce makeup ).

Abbott John was blamed for ineffectual financial management and was required to resign and, on 13 January 1255 Pope Alexander IV wrote to the Bishop of St Andrews ( position vacant at the time ) and to Nicholas de Prenderlathe, abbot of Jedburgh demanding that most of the abbey's income be diverted to paying off debts while only a basic level of income was to be retained for day to day expenses.

Johnson married former stage actress Eve Abbott ( 1914 – 2004 ) on January 25, 1947, the day after her divorce from actor Keenan Wynn was finalized.

He went into a coma and died later in the day at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.

STEMM would be the openers for Damageplan's " final " concert, as the next day, Darrell " Dimebag " Abbott would be murdered while onstage.

While a hit with her own show, Canova made frequent appearances on other popular radio programs of the day, including and especially, those hosted by Abbott and Costello and Fred Allen.

However, the day before, Abbott had killed a waiter during a row at a restaurant called Binibon on 2nd Avenue in the East Village.