Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis's criticism of the gas tax was used in the Liberals ' Ontario television ads, and the swing in support from the Tories to the Liberals in that province proved to be decisive in the campaign.

* 1934: Davis's performance in Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) was widely acclaimed and when she was not nominated for an Academy Award, several influential people mounted a campaign to have her name included.

Simon's campaign centered largely on allegations of corruption in the incumbent's administration, and Davis's handling of the 2001 energy crisis.

His next campaign was successful but would later be a factor in Davis's murder.

In the recall campaign, Republicans and others opposed to Davis's governance sometimes charge that Davis " did not respond properly " to the crisis.

Three of Davis's aides were fired or resigned after it was revealed that the governor's technology adviser accepted a $ 25, 000 campaign contribution shortly after the contract was signed.

Instead, he endorsed and donated money to David Davis's campaign.

Davis's team ran a professional campaign in the 1971 provincial election, and was rewarded with an increased majority government.

In the 1980 federal election, Davis's criticism of Clark's budget was used by the Liberal Party in official campaign documents and it played a role in the federal Tories ' losses in Ontario ; the swing in support enabled the Liberals to regain government.

Harper spoke favourably of Davis during the campaign, and said that he learned much from Davis's style of governing.

During his first run for governor, opponents reprinted the lyrics of some of these songs in order to undermine Davis's campaign.

In 1948, Parker received the rank of colonel in the Louisiana State Militia from Jimmie Davis, the governor of Louisiana and former country singer, in return for work he did on Davis's election campaign.

Easily returned in the 1981 campaign, he was appointed to Davis's government as a minister without portfolio on April 10, 1981.

Prior to the November elections, Roger Stone Davis's campaign manager, claims that Sloan fed him information that Stone passed on to a group entitled " People for a Safer New York ," who created a flyer labeling Redlich a " sexual predator.

" Carl Laemmle, the head of Universal Studios, considered terminating Davis's employment, but cinematographer Karl Freund told him she had " lovely eyes " and would be suitable for The Bad Sister ( 1931 ), in which she subsequently made her film debut.

At 29, McQueen got a significant break when Frank Sinatra removed Sammy Davis, Jr., from the film Never So Few after Davis supposedly made some mildly negative remarks about Sinatra in a radio interview, and Davis's role went to McQueen.

After Davis died, an emotional Hines spoke at Davis's funeral of how Sammy had made a gesture to him, " as if passing a basketball … and I caught it.

After the land transfer, North York Council made several attempts to get Premier David Peterson to reconsider Davis's actions but he refused to meet Council representatives over the issue.

Davis's handling of the education portfolio made him a high-profile minister, and there was little surprise when he entered the leadership contest to succeed Robarts in 1971.

His situation was also made more difficult by Davis's decision to extend public funding for Catholic Separate Schools to grade 13, a decision that had been left to Miller to implement.

Not long after the Metromedia deal was made, Murdoch purchased Davis's shares and News Corp assumed complete control of 20th Century Fox.

Three years later on 11 January 1982, Spencer was Steve Davis's opponent when Davis made the first televised 147 at the Lada Classic tournament at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham.

Not long after the Metromedia deal was made, Murdoch purchased Davis's shares and News Corporation assumed complete control of 20th Century Fox.

Although his performances made him one of the best Raider defenders of all time, his volatile actions contributed to him not being popular with teammates ( Matt Millen told reporters on several occasions how he disliked Matuszak and found him to be phony ) and not being one of Al Davis's favorite post-retirement players, and after an ugly incident where Matuszak violently assaulted assistant coach Terry Robiskie due to Matuszak hearing a false rumor that the team was going to trade away star tight end Todd Christensen, he was banned from ever setting foot in the Raiders ' HQ again.

Davis's version was popular and was followed by numerous other covers, including those of Bing Crosby and Gene Autry, whose versions made the number a big hit.

This is the last of Davis's studio albums with pop standards rather than band originals ; such would be gone by the time the quintet made its last change, replacing Coleman with Wayne Shorter in late 1964.

Three of the album's compositions are known to have made it to Davis's live " book ".

All of the Staff in Ziff Davis's FileFront division were made redundant at this time.

He made his Broadway debut in 1904 in Richard Harding Davis's Ranson's Folly.

The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library was established at Beauvoir Plantation, the white-columned Biloxi mansion that was Davis's final home, in 1998, after its use for some years as a Confederate Veterans Home.

The rise in use of Internet e-mail coincided roughly with the release of the Macintosh, and Davis's version was posted on the Info-Mac mailing list by Joel Heller in June 1984.

While speculating on Clive Davis's reaction to Houston's death, Kobylt imagined Davis calling her a ' crack ho ' and making other derogatory comments on Houston's alleged drug use and mental state.

Many DVD releases, including Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), Safety Last ( 1923 ), DeMille's The Godless Girl ( 1928 ), Chaplin's City Lights ( 1931 ) ( re-orchestrated by Davis based on Chaplin's and Padilla's original written score ) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed ( 1924 ), use Davis's music.

Rather than the use of the film's next-to-final track, " Bridge of Immortality ", from composer Don Davis's official score, the game's cut scenes use Queen's " We Are the Champions ".

Still, subsequent revelations of corporate accounting scandals and market manipulation by some Texas-based energy companies did little to quiet the criticism of Davis's handling of the crisis.

Davis's first full term as premier was by most accounts his least successful, with public confidence in his government weakened by a series of scandals.

In Davis's model, the ethical problem is stated, facts are checked, and a list of options is generated by considering relevant factors relating to the problem.

Backers of the recall effort cited Gray Davis's alleged lack of leadership combined with California's weakened and hurt economy.

Despite Davis's high disapproval ratings, he managed to defeat Simon by a margin of 47. 3 % of the vote to Simon's 42. 4 %.

The county's distillery business thrived in these decades, led by Maclin H. Davis's Cascade Distillery, founded in 1882 and now known as George Dickell Distilleries, which opened in 1959.

One of Davis's state Senate colleagues, Cecil R. Blair of Rapides Parish, who served from 1960 – 1964 and 1966 – 1976, resided and operated a business in Lecompte.

A review in The New York Times praised Davis's performance, describing him as " pure, ebullient, unapologetic show business.

However, the biggest casualty of Davis's arrival was the show's only remaining original character to have appeared continuously for the entire run of the series, Roy Farmer, who was killed in a fire in his internet café business.

The advent of cash-only grocery stores in the 1920s hurt Davis's business, as the new stores offered lower prices and larger selections.