Although Stephen Mallory was not put forward by the delegation from his state of Florida, Davis insisted that he was the best man for the job of Secretary of the Navy, and he was eventually confirmed.

For his part, Davis was fully aware of the importance of the project, which he pursued to the point of turning down a job with Duke Ellington's orchestra.

Davis won the election but majority of the voters disliked Davis and did not approve of his job performance.

Josh Howard ( Davis ) takes a job driving a garbage truck while others work to scope out the various casinos.

After winning several ACTRA Awards, Clarkson ended her job with The Fifth Estate in 1983 and was subsequently appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, John Black Aird, on the advice of his Premier, William Davis, as the Agent General for Ontario in France, acting in this role as a cultural liaison between the province and the country, as well as promoting Ontario in several other European states.

After obtaining his Ph. D., his first job was in research for Parke, Davis and Company, and his first task was to isolate the hormone associated with the thyroid gland.

After pursuing litigation against the police department, Davis ' claim that he never formally accepted the Liberal Party nomination was upheld and he was allowed to reclaim his job.

Over the objections of Davis, newly-elected Mayor Wittpenn appointed Hague as chief custodian of City Hall-a " cushy " job with plenty of patronage opportunities.

* Sergeant Davis Quinton ( Lorne Cardinal ) is the overly-sensitive senior police officer in Dog River, who has a habit of misspending the police budget, taking naps on the job, and making up the laws as he goes along ( he's never actually read the police manual ).

After a few years in the mines, Davis landed a job in the mining company store in Dawson, about five miles south of Rippey.

After settling into her job, Queen meets a man named Davis.

She gets a job with an aristocratic woman, Mrs. Benson, nearby and eventually comes across Davis leading a Black strike.

Allner and assistant manager Mike Davis, who was originally assistant to Cotterill, were sacked in January 2003, after just six months in the job, with Cheltenham hovering near the foot of Division Two.

Tackles Steve Rogers and Ray Wagner along with guards George Yarno and Greg Feasel and centre Tom Davis did a solid job opening holes and creating pass protection most of the season.

Erica agrees to divorce Phil after his father, Nick Davis, offers her a job as a hostess at his restaurant, the Chateau, in exchange for letting his son go.

In 1965 London, Mod Jimmy Cooper ( Daniels ), disillusioned by his parents and a job as a post-room boy at an advertising firm, finds an outlet for his teenage angst with his Mod friends Dave ( Wingett ), Chalky ( Davis ), and Spider ( Shail ).

Davis experienced racism from an early age as the KKK threatened to shoot his father, whose job they felt was too advanced for a black man to have.

As a kid, he went to get a job as a ballboy at the Davis Cup but was turned down because the organizers thought he was too clumsy http :// www. onlinecollege. org / 2010 / 02 / 16 / 50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first /.

Robert Davis: Decorated veteran who lands a job " on the line " at Sloan Industries but is isolated and belittled by racist co-workers ; Son of Abe and Gloria Davis ; Grandson of Rebecca Davis ; Great-great-grandson of a slave ; Served in Europe with the 761st Armored Battalion.

The four justices charged with selecting the fifth and final justice ( who, all realized, would be the deciding vote on the commission as all 14 other members were strictly partisan ) initially chose justice David Davis for the job, but as Davis had just been elected to the United States Senate he was unable to join.

" Don S. Davis ( General Hammond ) noted during the filming of season 6 that " Corin is a wonderful well-liked young man with a tremendous personality and he's had a great deal of experience in the business ", agreeing with writer Robert C. Cooper that Nemec had done a " fine " and " wonderful " job.

Varina Davis with their young daughter Winnie were allowed to join Davis, and the family were eventually given an apartment in the officers ' quarters.

Evans ' basement apartment had become the meeting place for several young musicians and composers such as Davis, Roach, pianist John Lewis, and baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan who were unhappy with the increasingly virtuoso instrumental techniques that dominated the bebop scene.

None of these musicians, with the exception of Davis, had received a great deal of exposure before that time ; Chambers, in particular, was very young ( 19 at the time ), a Detroit player who had been on the New York scene for only about a year, working with the bands of Bennie Green, Paul Quinichette, George Wallington, J. J. Johnson, and Kai Winding.

Almost immediately after the recording of Milestones, Davis fired Garland and, shortly afterward, Jones, again for behavioral problems ; he replaced them with Bill Evans — a young white pianist with a strong classical background — and drummer Jimmy Cobb.

Davis appeared in 11 feature films, usually typecast as a " loyal housewife ", " responsible young mother ", or " the steady woman ".

Judith Traherne ( Bette Davis ) is a young, carefree, hedonistic Long Island socialite / heiress with a passion for horses, fast cars, and too much smoking and drinking.

Eventually, Davis brought her case to court in Britain, hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir Patrick Hastings, who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to " come to the conclusion that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what she wants is more money ".

Despite the studio's suggestion that Davis play the role as a young woman, the 38-year-old insisted on aging her appearance to fit the part.

Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh miner ( John Dall ) from a life in the coal pits, by offering him education.

Allegedly, Bette Davis was set to star in the segment, but she felt her work was not important to a young director.

And to acquire Gatling, Riley and the Heat traded away Ricky Davis, a young, promising player.

However, due to his relatively young death, disputes with Davis and a lack of English translation of his work his ideas were not widely recognised for many years.

The film's star, actress Bette Davis, had a childhood friend who moved to Plaquemine as a young adult and subsequently lived her entire lifetime on fashionable LaBauve Avenue, having come to the area with her husband who was an early Petrochemical Executive.

Davis observed that at Casa Colorada his party “ struck a young desert, an excellent pocket edition of the great African Zahara, over which we journeyed for about four miles .” Through the area north of “ La Hoya ” the sand made travel difficult and the land barren with the exception of “ occasional small patches in some of the valleys close to the river ” ( Davis 1938: 200 ).

" Announcing Monteux's appointment, Fleischmann added that the LSO would also work frequently with Antal Doráti and the young Colin Davis.

Linda and Christian go to France to work with Spanish refugees in Perpignan during the Spanish Civil War, where they meet Linda's old friend Lavender Davis, an efficient young woman also volunteering to help the refugees.

Bands to emerge from other major British cities included The Animals from Newcastle ( with the keyboards of Alan Price and vocals of Eric Burdon ), The Moody Blues and Spencer Davis Group from Birmingham ( the latter largely a vehicle for the young Steve Winwood ), and Them from Belfast ( with their vocalist Van Morrison ).

Hilbert — the formalist with whom the intuitionist Brouwer would ultimately spend years in conflict — admired the young man and helped him receive a regular academic appointment ( 1912 ) at the University of Amsterdam ( Davis, p. 96 ).

Don Bellows ( Franchot Tone ), a prominent New York architect, is engaged to the beautiful and wealthy Gail Armitage ( Margaret Lindsay ) when he meets down-and-out Joyce Heath ( Bette Davis ), who was once the most promising young actress on Broadway.

Goldwyn immediately hired the young actress for the role of Bette Davis ' daughter in the 1941 adaptation of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, signing her to a five-year Hollywood contract with the Goldwyn Studios.

Throughout this period YCL membership grew to over 6, 000 members and a generation of young members-led by Barney Davis ( national secretary ), George Bridges ( London secretary ) and others challenged the political approach of the parent party.

While in the Senate, he challenged another young senator, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, to a duel over a perceived insult on the Senate floor ; Davis apologized, and the two began a close friendship.