" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.

Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and other jazz musicians, began to cite Brown as a major influence on their own styles.

By the late 1880s, Davis began to encourage reconciliation, telling Southerners to be loyal to the Union.

In 1813 Davis began his education at the Wilkinson Academy, near the family cotton plantation in the small town of Woodville.

Davis began with one slave, James Pemberton.

For a time, he began to regain his income, but the insurance company went bankrupt in the Panic of 1873 and Davis had difficulty finding new work.

Davis began playing professionally, performing in several 52nd Street clubs with Coleman Hawkins and Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis.

In December 1948, disputes over money ( Davis claims he was not being paid ) began to strain their relationship even further.

While in Paris, Davis began a relationship with French actress and singer Juliette Gréco.

With this revamped formation, Davis began a year during which the sextet performed and toured extensively and produced a record ( 1958 Miles, also known as 58 Sessions ).

Davis ' film career began with minor roles in 1949's The Doctor and the Girl with Glenn Ford, and followed with East Side, West Side starring Barbara Stanwyck.

His Public Works Minister Davis Hughes began to assert control over the project and demanded that costs be reined in.

Hours after the judge issued the warrant on August 14, 1970 a massive attempt to arrest Angela Davis began.

The 2003 California recall began with a petition drive that successfully forced sitting Democratic Governor Gray Davis into a special recall election.

Davis began work on Marked Woman ( 1937 ), as a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of Lucky Luciano.

She began to regret accepting the role ; and, to add to her disappointment, she was not confident in the abilities of her leading man, James Davis in his first major screen role.

", which became closely associated with Davis after it was referenced in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, and impersonators began to use it in their acts.

Davis and Merrill began arguing frequently, with B. D.

Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ) was Robert Aldrich's follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ?, in which he planned to reunite Davis and Crawford, but when Crawford withdrew allegedly due to illness soon after filming began, she was replaced by Olivia de Havilland.

The Davis case, the only case of the five originating from a student protest, began when sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized and led a 450-student walkout of Moton High School.

In 1987, Seagal began work on his first film, Above the Law ( titled Nico in Europe ), with director Andrew Davis and reportedly as a favor to a former aikido student, the agent Michael Ovitz, who believed he could make anyone a star.

By this point, the studio's employees were aware of Bakshi's intention to become an animator, and he began to receive help and advice from established animators, including Connie Rasinski, Manny Davis, Jim Tyer, Larry Silverman and Johnnie Gentilella.

Davis began his tenure as Governor with strong approval ratings, but those ratings declined as voters blamed Davis for the California electricity crisis and the California budget crisis that followed the dot-com bubble burst.

About the importance of making employment opportunities inclusive, Shirley Davis, director of global diversity and inclusion at the Society for Human Resource Management, said:

At the end of 1959, Reg Hickey decided to retire as coach, making way for Bob Davis, a star in the 51 – 52 Premierships.

Davis armed the regiment with the M1841 Mississippi Rifle and trained the regiment in its use, making it particularly effective in combat.

Munroe's method of making pencils was painstakingly slow, and in the neighbouring town of Acton, a pencil mill owner named Ebenezer Wood set out to automate the process at his own pencil mill located at Nashoba Brook along the old Davis Road.

After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing on many of the label's records with a diverse range of other musicians.

Davis and Panzer were unhappy with Peckinpah's version, which included a grossly distorted opening sequence of two characters making love.

Among the film roles offered to Davis following her return to film making was Rose Sayer in The African Queen ( 1951 ).

While making June Bride ( 1948 ), Davis clashed with co-star Robert Montgomery, later describing him as " a male Miriam Hopkins ... an excellent actor, but addicted to scene-stealing ".

Lindsey Davis mentions it, though without making it the central plot line in novels such as Saturnalia.

Davis recognized the domestic partnerships registry in 1999 and, in 2001, gave same-sex partners a few of the rights enjoyed by opposite-sex spouses such as making health care decisions for an incapacitated partner, acting as a conservator and inheriting property.

Davis introduced this version of retributive justice in the early 1980s, at a time when retributive justice was making a resurgence within the philosophy of law community, perhaps due to the practical failings of reform theory in the previous decades.

The release included an audio commentary by Warwick Davis and two " making of " featurettes.

Clive Davis promptly released the duo from its contract and deleted the album and its masters from their catalogue — making Girl You Know It's True the largest-selling album to be deleted.

Gray Davis, a Democrat, signed a domestic partner bill, making California the first state to legally recognize same-sex couples.

Davis ' films are typically 10 to 30 minutes long ; he prided himself on making each one for $ 1, 000, a minuscule film budget even at that time.

The Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 introduced Hawaiian steel guitar to mainland country music artists, and by the 1930s country stars Hoot Gibson and Jimmy Davis were making records with Hawaiian musicians.

Davis played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making many recordings as a leader.

He thought that Davis attempted to fit a modern societal model ( of an independent woman making her own choices ) onto the historical account.

Another was Marc Davis who claimed that " too many cooks " were making the soup.

After several legal and procedural efforts failed to stop it, California's first-ever gubernatorial recall election was held on October 7, and the results were certified on November 14, 2003, making Davis the first governor recalled in the history of California, and just the second in U. S. history.

In mid-August 2003, Davis floated a plan to reverse the increase, making up the revenue with taxes on high income earners, cigarettes, and alcoholic beverages.

After contributing to several key British groups of the early sixties and making his first solo record Extrapolation ( with Tony Oxley and John Surman ) he moved to the USA where he played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On The Corner.

In late 1872 Jacob Davis, a Reno, Nevada tailor, born in Riga, Latvia, started making men's work pants with metal points of strain for greater strength.

After making a full recovery, Davis continued to play for Glamorgan.