Los Angeles-based Mike Davis, in his seminal work on the city, City of Quartz, describes the process of gradually convincing Chavez Ravine homeowners to sell.

However, as Vanauken or " Van " and his wife, Jean Davis or " Davy ," explore Christianity and are gradually converted, the primacy of their love for one another comes into question for both of them — though Vanauken's conversion is somewhat slower and more reluctant.

Yancey gradually ran afoul of President Davis on matters of policy, although he was not one of Davis ’ s most extreme critics.

* 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.

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.

He later emigrated to the United States and established his own research laboratory in New York City but licensed the exclusive production rights for Takadiastase to one of the largest US pharmaceutical companies, Parke Davis.

* Vieth v. Jubelirer ( 2004 ) held claims of partisan gerrymandering nonjusticiable because a discernible and manageable standard for adjudicating them had not been established or applied since Davis v. Bandemer.

In 1905, the Legislature established a " University Farm School " that would be located at Davis, and in 1907 a " Citrus Experiment Station " at Riverside as adjuncts to the College of Agriculture at Berkeley.

In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established.

" Davis writes, " Moslem defeat ended the Moslems ' threat to western Europe, and Frankish victory established the Franks as the dominant population in western Europe, establishing the dynasty that led to Charlemagne.

In 1997, the executors of her estate, Michael Merrill, her son, and Kathryn Sermak, her former assistant, established " The Bette Davis Foundation " which awards college scholarships to promising actors and actresses.

Davis – Monthan AFB was established in 1925 as Davis-Monthan Landing Field, and is named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan, both Tucson natives.

Although Innu have been only in Sheshatshiu since fur trading posts were established by the Hudson's Bay Company in Northwest River in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since the Moravians set up along the Inuit Coast in 1771, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of a hydroelectric megaproject to proceed on the proposed Lower Churchill site.

Marfa was established in 1883, and the county seat was moved there from Fort Davis in 1885.

Fort Davis was established in 1854. The land was leased from Surveyor John James at $ 300 a year.

The legislature established Jeff Davis County on March 15, 1887.

Fort Davis National Historic Site was established in 1961.

* 1927 The Luling Foundation is established by Edgar B. Davis to teach diversity in agriculture and improve the lives of farm and ranch families.

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.

This changed when Gregory Davis, a Military Intelligence officer, defined and established a clandestine services program under the US Southern Command's " Plan Green ".

Davis approved, and Beauregard's date of rank was established as the date of his victory, July 21.

Haleyville was originally named Davis Cross Roads, having been established at the crossroads of Byler Road and the Illinois Central Railroad.

The post office was established in 1853 with John Davis as the first postmaster.

Branch camps were established at Arbuckle, in Colusa County ( 200 Germans ); Chico, in Butte County ( 475 Germans ); Davis, in Yolo County ( 250 Germans ); Napa, in Napa County ( 250 Germans ); and Windsor, in Sonoma County ( 250 Germans ).

It was established in 1903 and originally named Maryville for the daughter of the owner of the land, Margaret Davis.

According to Story of Mayfield Through a Century, 1823-1923, published by D. Trabue Davis in 1923, Mayfield was established as the county seat of Graves County in 1821, and the county was formally organized in 1823.

Among the first settlers to arrive were the Davis brothers, who established a saw mill where the town of Luke now stands.

" Speaking of Milt Brown and himself working with songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, and others, and songs he'd learned from his father, he said that " We'd pull these tunes down an set ' em in a dance category.

Fans connected with Jon's " loneliness and desperation " and found his " crazy antics " humorous ; Jim Davis himself called Walsh's strips an " inspired thing to do " and said that " some of strips work better the originals ".

It was implied that Jon is inspired by a drawing of Davis himself when he was first drawing the strip.

Wood himself played the eponymous character, but under the pseudonym " Daniel Davis ".

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.

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.

Realizing his precarious condition, Davis tried several times to end his drug addiction, finally succeeding in 1954 after returning to his father's home in St. Louis for several months and literally locking himself in a room until he had gone through a painful withdrawal.

The officer said that he would arrest Davis and grabbed him as Davis protected himself.

Written almost entirely by Harvey Kurtzman, the first issue also featured illustrations by Kurtzman himself, along with Wally Wood, Will Elder, Jack Davis and John Severin.

But neither the board nor Bluhdorn himself accepted Diller's repeated advancements of this idea and neither did Bluhdorn's successor, Martin Davis.

Daley's chief rival in that race was Alderman Danny K. Davis, a black politician from the West Side who himself did not pose an especially forceful challenge.

A number of women have played male roles in King Lear ; most commonly the Fool, who has been played ( among others ) by Judy Davis and Emma Thompson but also, significantly, Lear himself, played by Marianne Hoppe in 1990 and by Kathryn Hunter in 1996-7.

Davis addressed the issue in an interview, pointing out that many Hollywood wives earned more than their husbands, but the situation proved difficult for Nelson, who refused to allow Davis to purchase a house until he could afford to pay for it himself.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

In 2003, Flynt was a candidate in the recall election of California governor Gray Davis, calling himself a " smut peddler who cares ".

At the 2005 trading deadline, Mullin further added to the team by acquiring guard Baron Davis, bringing the team its first " superstar " since Mullin himself.

Star Baron Davis often found himself at odds with coach Mike Montgomery and failed to remain healthy, playing in just 54 games.

However, in Miles Davis ' autobiography Miles, Davis claims that the anger and tension between Monk and himself never took place and that the claims of blows being exchanged were " rumors " and a " misunderstanding ".

Another Claiborne Parish educator, John Sparks Patton, once ran against Harris for education superintendent and himself served on the Louisiana Public Service Commission until he was unseated in 1942 by Jimmie Davis.

Davis aimed to portray himself as a moderate centrist Democrat and to label Lungren a Republican too conservative for California and out of touch with its views on issues like guns and abortion.

The initial drive for the recall was fueled by funds from the personal fortune of U. S. Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican who originally hoped to replace Davis himself.