State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

He was aided in the last decade of his life by the generosity of Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, a wealthy widow.

Knowing she was severely ill, in 1878 Dorsey made over her will, leaving Beauvoir and her financial assets to Jefferson Davis and, in the case of his death, to his only surviving child, Winnie Davis.

Dorsey Levens was the game's leading rusher with 61 rushing yards, and caught 3 passes for 23 yards.

When told that his party, including his own campaign manager, Stephen W. Dorsey, was involved, Garfield directed MacVeagh and James to root out the corruption in the Post Office Department " to the bone ", regardless of where it might lead.

Competition was also intensifying, as African-American and white swing bands began to receive popular attention, including those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Carter, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, and Count Basie.

After the election, Mondale joined the Minnesota-based law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ( 1986 – 93 ), and was credited with successes in Poland and Hungary.

Though she was dubbed in this film by Marjorie Lane, Eleanor recorded " You Are My Lucky Star " with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra ( Victor 25158 ).

The popularity of many of the major bands was amplified by star vocalists, such as Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Helen O ' Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie, Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest with Harry James, Doris Day with Les Brown, Toni Arden and Ken Curtis with Shep Fields and Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman.

De Franco was already the veteran of bands like Gene Krupa and Tommy Dorsey in the 1940s.

In 1906, a novel electrical method was used by E. B. Rosa and N. E. Dorsey of the National Bureau of Standards to obtain a value for the speed of light of 299, 781 ± 10 km / s.

It was named for William Dorsey Pender of Edgecombe County, a Confederate general mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.

* Dorsey Station — This Harrison Township community was a railroad stop, and had a post office during the 1870s.

The " Dorsey Trailer Company " was constructed at the end of this railroad line, and this company manufactured the highway trailers that served on railroads and highways starting with the piggyback railroad or containerized cargo boom of the second half of the 20th century.

In 1836 / 37 a Post Office was established in Walnut Township at the home of postmaster George Dorsey, and called the New Ross Post Office.

In 1908, Dorsey was a station on the Munising, Marquette and Southeastern Railway.

Cedar Grove was once home to Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook Ballroom, located on Route 23, which regularly hosted well-known bands and vocalists, including Buddy Rich, Glenn Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, and Jo Stafford.

Another variation was found in the former home of Institute secretary Dorsey L. Nance west of campus and N. C. 68 ; that structure has since been destroyed.

The community was portrayed as the hometown location of the fictional Babs Knievans ' Bar and Grill and " Hiney Wine " used as a daily comedy sketch and mock radio ad by local radio personalities John King and Terry Dorsey on Dayton radio station WING ( AM ) in the 1980s.

* Dorsey B. Hardeman, Texas politician, was born in Henderson in 1902.

Compared to moments on the Dorsey shows, on the Berle show, it was ice cream — Elvis's face unthreatening, his legs as if in casts ..." When " he sang Little Richard's ' Reddy Teddy ' and began to move and dance, the camera pulled in, so that the television audience saw him from the waist up only.

It has been recorded by many artists throughout the world, but a version recorded in 1960 by Dorsey Burnette to date was the biggest success for the song in the post-1954 " rock era ", having reached # 102 on Billboard's charts.

She was accompanied by bandleader and pianist Thomas Dorsey, and the band he assembled called the Wildcats Jazz Band which included Eddie Pollack, Gabriel Washington, Albert Wynn and David Nelson.

Since then, Mondale has returned to working at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and remains active in the Democratic Party.

* Billy Martin ( lawyer ) of the Washington, D. C. office of law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP

D. A. Dorsey Educational Center has a rich and positive tradition in the Liberty City area of Miami as a fully operational adult education center.

In the words of Dorsey Ellis, “ Langdell viewed law as a science and the law library as the laboratory, with the cases providing the basis for learning those ‘ principles or doctrines ’ of which ‘ law, considered as a science, consists .’” Nonetheless, into the year 1900 most states did not require a university education ( although an apprenticeship was often required ) and most practitioners had not attended any law school or college.

Miami's Dorsey Memorial Library, which was opened on August 13, 1941, was built on land he donated shortly before his death.

He donated to Dade County Public Schools the property at NW 71st Street and 17th Avenue on which Dorsey High School was later built.

Grimaldis in particular shows his small scale table pieces and works in bronze, which, as noted by John Dorsey in the Baltimore Sun, " is in a line of work that descends from the 1960s and that grew out of Caro's desire to create table pieces that would not be seen as merely smaller versions of large sculptures.

In the primary, Portman won only Hamilton County, but by a large enough margin to win the primary with 17, 531 votes ( 35. 61 %), while McEwen received 14, 542 ( 29. 54 %), Buchert 12, 488 ( 25. 37 %), Dorsey 2, 947 ( 5. 99 %), the rest scattering.

Among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.

Near Rosser there is the Dorsey Converter Station and the large static inverter plant for the Nelson River Bipole HVDC power transmission scheme.

Seventeen governors occupied this large Victorian home until Governor Dorsey vacated the increasingly rundown building for his summer home near the Atlanta Water Works in 1921.

Dorsey is perhaps best known as a stop on the MARC commuter rail system, which carries commuters into downtown Baltimore and Washington, D. C. Dorsey is a stop on MARC's Camden line and contains a large parking lot off of Maryland State Highway 100.

In Tootsie ( 1982 ), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera.

The museum was moved in 1977 to the Ormsby Village area at the corner of La Grange Road and Dorsey Lane on land leased from Jefferson County, and known as Ormsby Station.

On the first play after the turnover, New England lineman Ferric Collons sacked Favre for a 10-yard loss, but running back Dorsey Levens rushed for 4 yards and caught a pass for 14 over the next two plays, setting up Chris Jacke's 37-yard field goal to make the score 10 – 0.

From there, Favre led the Packers all the way to the New England 37, but the Patriots made a key defensive stand, stopping Green Bay running back Dorsey Levens for no gain on third down and one, and then tackling him again for a 7-yard loss on a fourth down conversion attempt.

* Dorsey, Leroy G. " The Frontier Myth and Teddy Roosevelt's Fight for Conservation ".

While record labels in New Orleans largely disappeared by the mid-1960s, producers in the city continued to record New Orleans soul artists for other mainly New York and Los Angeles record labels — notably Lee Dorsey for New York – based Amy Records and the Meters for New York – based Josie and then LA-based Reprise.

In the early-to-mid-1930s, Miller also worked as a trombonist and arranger in The Dorsey Brothers, first when they were a Brunswick studio group ( under their own name and providing accompaniment for many of The Boswell Sisters sessions ), and finally when they formed an ill-fated co-led touring and recording orchestra.

Miller composed the song " Annie's Cousin Fanny " and " Dese Dem Dose " for the Dorsey Brothers Band in 1934 and 1935.

The Arkansas legislature established Dorsey County as Arkansas's 71st county on April 17, 1873, naming it for Stephen W. Dorsey, the U. S. Senator from Arkansas.

* Charlie Turner-Trumpeter who played for and with many great musicians, including Jimmy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra.

Subsequently, Presley and his band performed " Heartbreak Hotel " with borrowed instruments ( their own were being driven to Florida in preparation for a tour ) with the backing of The Dorsey Brothers orchestra.

Clayton is named for a son of U. S. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, an Arkansas Republican, originally from Ohio, who served during Reconstruction.

After determining a crteria for inductees, Bill Dick Parker, Joel Dorsey, and Neal Henigan were chosen as the 1963 indutees, In the preceding years, the following former athletes from Hallsville have been inducted into the Hall of Fame: 1964, Ross " Larry " Parker, Perry " Peck " Bunt, Barney Oliver ; 1965, Clayton " Shag " Coon, Hulon Blalock, Edd Young ; 1966, Clyde Kinsy, Murray Know, Brad Horner ; 1967, Dick Hays ; 1968, James Greer ; 1969, Votto Gaddis, Ed Ferges, Corky Ford ; 1970.

Lewis's clarinet playing barely evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and Don Murray to play clarinet in his band.

In the words of Dorsey Ellis, " Langdell viewed law as a science and the law library as the laboratory, with the cases providing the basis for learning those ' principles or doctrines ' of which law, considered as a science, consists.