Following the " Daily Double ," Matthews, Durham, Cey, Moreland and Davis gave the Cubs an order with no gaps to pitch around.

Joseph Davis gave his brother 900 acres of land adjoining his property, where Davis eventually developed Brierfield Plantation.

In this capacity, Davis gave Congress four annual reports ( in December of each year ), as well as an elaborate one ( submitted on February 22, 1855 ) on various routes for the proposed Transcontinental Railroad.

In meetings of his own Mississippi legislature, Davis had argued against secession ; but when a majority of the delegates opposed him, he gave in.

Davis gave speeches to soldiers and politicians but largely ignored the common people and thereby failed to harness Confederate nationalism by directing the energies of the people into winning the war.

The sign announcing the performance gave a surprising prominence to the role of the arrangers: " Miles Davis Nonet.

The material they recorded was released in 1956 on an album whose title, Birth of the Cool, gave its name to the " cool jazz " movement that developed at the same time and partly shared the musical direction begun by Davis ' group.

The terms of the settlement are confidential, but it was reported that under its terms Davis purchased the McGah family's interest in the Raiders ( approximately 31 percent ), which gave him for the first time a majority interest, speculated to be approximately 67 percent of the team.

Davis ' 102 rushing yards in the Super Bowl gave him over 100 rushing yards for the 7th consecutive postseason game ( and he was the 3rd player to run for 100 yards in back-to-back Super Bowls, the others being Larry Csonka in Super Bowls VII and VIII, and Emmitt Smith in Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII ).

In August 1831, Juan Davis Bradburn the military commander of the custom station on Upper Galveston Bay gave asylum to two men who had escaped from slavery in Louisiana.

The gritty Warner image of the 1930s gave way to a glossier look, especially in women's pictures starring Davis, de Havilland, and Crawford.

After Chicago, the Justice Department meted out conspiracy and incitement to riot charges in connection with the violence at Chicago and gave birth to the Chicago Eight, which consisted of Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale.

A variety of other roles followed, but it was the lead in Dread, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Owen Davis that gave Tracy high hopes for success.

Paul K. Davis writes, " Constantine ’ s victory gave him total control of the Western Roman Empire paving the way for Christianity to become the dominant religion for the Roman Empire and ultimately for Europe.

Davis ' version gave the Seneca Falls meeting in 1848 a minor role, equivalent to other local meetings that had been held by women's groups in the late 1840s.

She auditioned for George Cukor's stock theater company, and although he was not very impressed, he gave Davis her first paid acting assignment anyway — a one-week stint playing the part of a chorus girl in the play Broadway.

For the rest of her life, Davis maintained that she gave the statue its familiar name of " Oscar " because its posterior resembled that of her husband, whose middle name was Oscar, although her claim has been disputed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, among others.

Film reviewers complimented Davis on her performance, the National Board of Review commenting that she gave the film " a dignity not fully warranted by the script ".

In 1947, at the age of 39, Davis gave birth to a daughter, Barbara Davis Sherry ( known as B. D.

Davis in the trailer for Dark Victory ( 1939 ), in which she gave one of her ten Oscar-nominated performances

The Wind is almost certainly the best-a silent classic, revived in recent years by producer / director Kevin Brownlow with a Carl Davis score, which gave the great Lillian Gish one of the finest parts of her career ... Sjostrom treats the inevitable clash between Letty and her new surroundings with considerable realism and detail, allowing Gish as much leeway as possible to develop her performance.

This was following an injury to keeper Kelvin Davis which brought Bartosz Białkowski back into the starting 11, and who gave a poor performance, letting a 30 yard effort from Chris Basham slip between his hands and legs and roll into the back of the net.

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.

Jefferson Davis considered him the best general in the country ; this was two months before the emergence of Robert E. Lee as the pre-eminent general of the Confederacy.

Paul K. Davis wrote that " Caesar's victory took him to the pinnacle of power, effectively ending the Republic.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue.

His direction of a 1926 stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby by Owen Davis brought him to the attention of the New York critics.

Bob Davis acknowledges the possibility that had Coleman played, Essendon may well have won, given that Geelong had no true match for him, as Coleman was simply too skilled.

Davis was still in Mississippi during the Black Hawk War of 1832 but, at its conclusion, his colonel Zachary Taylor assigned him to escort the chief Black Hawk to prison.

Within a month of their meeting, the 35-year-old widower Davis had asked Varina to marry him.

In 1849, López visited Davis and asked him to lead his filibuster expedition to Cuba.

Apart from two month-long trips across the country where he met a few hundred people, Davis stayed in Richmond where few people saw him ; newspapers had limited circulation and most Confederates had little favorable information about him.

It was reported that Davis put his wife's overcoat over his shoulders while fleeing, inspiring caricatures that portrayed him as having disguised himself as a woman while trying to avoid capture.

Varina Davis, who had taken another boat to Brierfield, met him on the river, and he finally received some medical care.

After several attempts to acquire Davis, the organization was ultimately successful in signing him to a four-year $ 13 million contract ( the largest annual salary in baseball history at the time ) on December 11, 1989.

During this time, Sonny Stitt tried to persuade him to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, then passing through town, but Davis ' mother insisted that he finish his final year of high school.

Even after this experience, once Eckstine's band left town, Davis ' parents were still keen for him to continue formal academic studies.

During a stop in Los Angeles, Parker had a nervous breakdown that landed him in the Camarillo State Mental Hospital for several months, and Davis found himself stranded.

Many of his new and old friends ( Davis, in his autobiography, mentions Clarke ) tried to persuade him to stay in France, but Davis decided to return to New York.

The depression was due in part to his separation from Gréco, in part to his feeling under appreciated by the critics ( who were hailing Davis ' former collaborators as leaders of the cool jazz movement ), and in part to the unraveling of his liaison with a former St. Louis schoolmate who was living with him in New York and with whom he had two children.

These are the factors to which Davis traces a heroin habit that deeply affected him for the next four years.

In his autobiography, Davis disputed this account, stating that Roach had requested that Davis play with him that night, and that the details of the incident, such as carrying his horn in a paper bag and interrupting Roach and Brown, were fictional and that his decision to quit heroin was unrelated to the incident.