Abraham Landis had been wounded fighting on the Union side at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia, and when his parents proved unable to agree on a name for the new baby, Mary Landis proposed that they call him Kenesaw Mountain.

When Kenesaw was eight, the elder Landis moved his family to Delphi, Indiana and subsequently to Logansport, Indiana where the doctor purchased and ran several local farms — his war injury had caused him to scale back his medical practice.

Kenesaw Landis had appeared before Judge Gresham in court.

Taylor Spink, Gresham thought Landis " had something on the ball " and believed that Landis's shorthand skills would be of use.

Landis made no public statement as to the reasons for his failure to rule, though he told close friends that he had been certain the parties would reach a settlement sooner or later.

The case brought comparisons between Landis and King Solomon, who had judged a similar case.

Landis was reversed by the Supreme Court, which held he had no jurisdiction in the matter.

They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).

The two had previously worked together on the comedy hit Trading Places ( 1983 ); however, Landis later recalled the differences in working with Murphy on the two movies: " The guy on Trading Places was young and full of energy and curious and funny and fresh and great.

Then John M. Landis, a veteran newspaperman who had established a paper in Gillett, moved to DeWitt and acquired the name of the New Era.

Charlie Anderson was put in charge of the project and he soon had Istvan Cseri, Weikuo Liaw, Murray Low, Steven Boye, Barry Spencer, Dave Orton, Bernie Vachon, Anson Lee, Tod Landis and Chuck Batterman working on the project.

Landis had acquired the resort and apartment complex of Loma Linda by the end of 2005.

Landis also had a hand in establishing other small towns, including Landisville, in Buena Borough.

Established as a Temperance Town, where the sale of alcohol was prohibited, Landis required that purchasers of land in Vineland had to build a house on the purchased property within a year of purchase, that 2½ acres of the often-heavily wooded land had to be cleared and farmed each year, and that adequate space be placed between houses and roads to allow for planting of flowers and shade trees along the routes through town.

After determining that the Vineland soil was well-suited for growing grapes ( hence the name ), Landis started advertising to attract Italian grape growers to Vineland, offering of land that had to be cleared and used to grow grapes.

" The move mimicked the decision Major League Baseball had made in hiring judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as League Commissioner the previous year to quell questions about the integrity of baseball in the wake of the 1919 World Series gambling scandal ; The New York Times even called Hays the " screen Landis ".

In 2010, Harryhausen had a brief cameo in Burke and Hare, a British film also directed by Landis.

Nonetheless, Landis was convinced Kauff was guilty and argued that players of " undesirable reputation and character " had no place in baseball.

Two years later, when Johnson criticized Landis ' decision to give Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker an amnesty after it surfaced they had bet on a fixed game in 1919, Landis told the American League owners to choose between him and Johnson ; the owners promptly sent Johnson on a sabbatical from which he never really returned.

I had his records, and I read them, and for twenty-four years Landis consistently blocked any attempts to put blacks and whites together on a big league field.

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

Landis later wrote, " I may not have been much of a judge, nor baseball official, but I do pride myself on having been a real shorthand reporter.

A film biopic, Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines, has long been in pre-production ; director John Landis and screenwriter Joel Eisenberg have been attached to the project since 2008, with Feldstein as a creative consultant.

Dr. Story Landis has been the director of the institute since September 1, 2003.

Dr. Landis has been granted many honors in her distinguished career and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Neurological Association.

Instead, in 1995, Bill Landis, who had been an associate of Anger's in the early 1980s, wrote an unofficial biography of him, which Anger himself condemned, describing Landis as " an avowed enemy ".

It was stated on the DVD commentary by David Naughton and Griffin Dunne that they were not sure why Landis could not get the rights to Warren Zevon's " Werewolves of London "-a song that they felt would have been more appropriate for the film.

The tragic character of Jennifer North is said to be based upon actress / pin-up girl Carole Landis, who had been romantically involved with Susann in their Hollywood days.

The rivalry might have been a friendly one, as Spielberg makes a cameo appearance in Blues Brothers ( as the unnamed desk clerk near the very end ) and Landis had made a cameo in 1941 as a messenger.

American Werewolf was perhaps Landis ' most personal project ; he had been planning to make it since 1969, while in Yugoslavia.

Landis has been active in television as the executive producer ( and often director ) of the series Dream On ( 1990 ), Weird Science ( 1994 ), Sliders ( 1995 ), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show ( 1997 ), Campus Cops ( 1995 ), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World ( 1998 ), Masters of Horror, and various episodes of Psych.

The members stated that any delay in electing Landis might have been resulted in an unfortunate increase in public pressure, possibly creating the impression that the move was somehow forced rather than voluntary.

Ebert noted that " the surprising thing is, the two superstar directors are thoroughly routed by two less-known directors whose previous credits have been horror and action pictures ... Spielberg, who produced the whole project, perhaps sensed that he and Landis had the weakest results, since he assembles the stories in an ascending order of excitement.

Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " If I had been the agent for one of the stars, like Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth or Kathryn Harrold, I think I would have protested to the front office that Landis was engaging in cinematic auto-eroticism and that my clients were getting lost in the middle of the family reunion.

Landis underwent successful hip resurfacing surgery on September 27, 2006, receiving a Smith and Nephew Birmingham metal-on-metal hip joint, a durable joint ideal for athletes, that had recently been approved by the U. S. FDA.

Floyd Landis has since been stripped of this title, making Sastre 3rd in the 2006 Tour de France.

Andy Rihs, owner of Phonak Hearing Systems, said on 15 August 2006 that the deal had been called off after the team's leader, Floyd Landis, tested positive for high levels of testosterone, and that the team would disband at the end of 2006.

At age 21, Landis applied to become a lawyer — there were then no educational or examination requirements for the Indiana bar.

Realizing that an uneducated lawyer was unlikely to build a lucrative practice, Landis enrolled at Cincinnati's YMCA Law School ( now part of the University of Cincinnati ) in 1889.

According to a 1907 magazine article about Landis, " Corporations smiled pleasantly at the thought of a corporation lawyer being on the bench.

Landis was widely praised for cleaning up the game, although some of his decisions in the Black Sox matter remain controversial: supporters of " Shoeless Joe " Jackson and Buck Weaver contend that he was overly harsh with those players.

Griffin won, and Landis was rewarded with a civil service job in the Indiana Department of State.

Landis practiced with college friend Frank O. Lowden ; the future commissioner and his law partner went into debt to impress potential clients, buying a law library secondhand.

In Washington, Landis worked hard to protect Gresham's interests in the State Department, making friends with many members of the press.

Landis built a corporate law practice in Chicago ; with the practice doing well, he deeply involved himself in Republican Party politics.

According to Spink, President Roosevelt wanted " a tough judge and a man sympathetic with his viewpoint in that important court "; Lowden and Landis were, like Roosevelt, on the progressive left of the Republican Party.

After a dramatic pause, Landis ordered the young man to take his wife and daughter and go home with them, expressing his unwillingness to have the girl be the daughter of a convict.

Baseball owners feared that the reserve clause, which forced players to sign new contracts only with their former team, and the 10-day clause, which allowed teams ( but not players ) to terminate player contracts on ten days notice, would be struck down by Landis.

In December 1915, still with no word from Landis, the parties reached a settlement, and the Federal League disbanded.

Optical cards were produced by Landis + Gyr and Sodeco from Switzerland and were popular early phonecards in many countries with first optical phonecards successfully introduced in 1977 in Belgium.

In 1917, one hundred and sixty-five IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes, under the new Espionage Act ; one hundred and one went on trial before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1918.

Working in collaboration with, among others, science fiction writers Cramer, Forward, and Landis, Benford worked on a theoretical study of the physics of wormholes, which pointed out that wormholes, if formed in the early universe, could still exist in the present day if they were wrapped in a negative-mass cosmic string.

That year, Simon reached No. 99 on the pop charts as Jerry Landis with the hit " The Lone Teen Ranger.

Coming to America reunited star Eddie Murphy with director John Landis.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy, to serve as the first Chairman of the SEC, along with James M. Landis ( one of the architects of the 1934 Act and other New Deal legislation ) and Ferdinand Pecora ( Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency during its investigation of Wall Street banking and stock brokerage practices ).

* Landis + Gyr a company focused on metering and other technologies which deal with management of scarce resources.

The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving.

Image: Landis Mill Covered Bridge Inside Roof 3264px. jpg | One of the inside corners of the bridge with the roof

The film stars Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdan with Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Brian Aherne, Leo G. Carroll, Estelle Winwood and Robert Coote.

Route 54 was legislated in 1938 to run from US 30 / Route 43 and US 206 / Route 39 in Hammonton south along Lincoln Avenue to an intersection with Main Road in Landis Township, Cumberland County ( now a part of Vineland ).

Charles K. Landis purchased of land in 1861, near Millville, New Jersey, and along an existing railroad line with service to Philadelphia, to create his own alcohol-free utopian society based on agriculture and progressive thinking.