Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas and said that he did not play with many white children other than his siblings, until he was seven or eight years old.

Even a 1958 return to KVOO, where his younger brother Johnnie Lee Wills had maintained the family's presence, did not produce the success he hoped for.

Lord Coleridge CJ., Pollock and Huddleston BB., Stephen, Manisty, Mathew, A L Smith, Wills and Grantham JJ., held that the conduct of the prisoner did not amount to an offence under either section 20 or section 47.

Those who did marry, says Wills, were considered to be weak in faith.

Garry Wills has argued that Jefferson did not take the phrase from Locke and that it was indeed meant to be a standard by which governments should be judged.

In the case of Watteau v Fenwick, Lord Coleridge CJ on the Queen's Bench concurred with an opinion by Wills J that a third party could hold personally liable a principal who he did not know about when he sold cigars to an agent that was acting outside of its authority.

In 1926, Farley threatened to resign his post as Athletic Commissioner if the boxing champion Jack Dempsey did not fight the mandatory challenger, African-American fighter Harry Wills who went by the name " the Black Panther ".

During his period in England, Wills attended Cambridge University, though he did not matriculate, and played first-class cricket matches for Kent and the Marylebone Cricket Club, as well as representing the university's cricket club in the annual match against Oxford.

After interning at Kings County Hospital, he did his residency ( 1956-1960 ) at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, then worked as an ophthalmologist at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in New York.

He did sense the presence of a woman in the garden, whom he believed to be Mrs. Leyborne Popham, and another ghost in the Chinese bedroom he termed a " busybody ", a word Mrs. Wills, wife of the then owner Major George Wills, agreed described the presence in that room.

Though FIFA did not officially recognize the USVI team as affiliated until 1992, the Virgin Islands federation was founded in the 1970s by Trinidad native Robert T. Wills who helped build the base of the USVI Soccer Federation as it is known today.

Wills were drawn out that specified who would receive the land as a way of ensuring that other citizens did not try to take the land from the family of the deceased.

The fight, however, never took place because Dempsey did not receive a $ 100, 000 guarantee from the promoter, after Wills received a $ 50, 000 check, from George Barton's " My Lifetime in Sports ".

* Tom Wills cannot have won the 1856 award, as he did not arrive back in Victoria until 23 December 1856, having spent years away in England.

Director Lubin and Chill Wills were also absent, replaced respectively by Charles Lamont and voice actor Paul Frees, who did a close approximation of Wills ' voice.

Folic acid, a vitamin crucial for DNA metabolism ( he did not know the significance of DNA at that time ), had been discovered by Lucy Wills, when she was working in India, in 1937.

In 1861, rescue parties for Burke and Wills, which failed to find them, did some exploratory work of their own, in central and north-western Queensland.

Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as " Steel Guitar Rag ", " New San Antonio Rose ", " Smoke on the Water ", " Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima ", and " New Spanish Two Step ".

After leaving the Army in 1943 Wills moved to Hollywood, moving into a rented house in September, and began to reorganize the Texas Playboys.

The primary mountains within the county ( From west to east: Wills, Evitts, Dunning, and Tussey mountains ) extend from the southern border with Maryland to the northeast into Blair County, and are held up by the Silurian Tuscarora Formation, made of quartz sandstone and conglomerate.

In the southeast, Wills Creek flows east into Bedford County and then into Maryland where it joins the Potomac River.

In 2006 Lehigh County voters approved a county-charter amendment to combine the offices of Clerk of Courts, Register of Wills, and Recorder of Deeds into the office of the Clerk of Judicial Records.

Wills ' view has been partially supported by Samuel Fleischacker, who agreed that it is " perfectly reasonable to see Hutcheson ’ s influence behind the appeals to sentiment that Jefferson put into his draft of the Declaration ..."

In college, McEntire would sneak into local dances at the Oklahoma-Texas border so she could dance to Wills's music, commenting that, " it didn't get any better than dancing to Bob Wills music ".

Wills died upon impact and the plane burst into flames.

The Victorian Government held a Commission of Enquiry into the deaths of Burke and Wills.

Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into and report upon the circumstances connected with the sufferings and death of Robert O ' Hara Burke and William John Wills, the Victorian Explorers.

Facing a severe loss against a stronger team, Wills ordered every player into the backline.

Police had arrived on the scene after being alerted by Frank Wills, a security guard, who noticed that a door leading into the hotel had been taped open.

He was a director of W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, and also represented Bristol North in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist.

Spike Lee loosely incorporated Frank Wills ' story into Lee's 2004 film, She Hate Me.

When the Guyanese president Forbes Burnham came into power he appointed Wills as Justice Minister and later Foreign Affairs Minister.

Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. ( 6 April 1892 – 1 February 1981 ) was a United States aircraft industrialist and founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921 ( the company later merged into McDonnell Douglas Corporation ).

A statue of Wills was erected outside of the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2002, and he was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Wills continued his involvement with football as player and administrator into the 1860s.

In 1858 he went into partnership with two of his cousins to form W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later became the Imperial Tobacco Company, of which he became the first chairman.

" The Coral's James Skelly was persistent in trying to convince Wills of his friend's potential and the breakthrough finally came when the bedroom demos of the newly formed Zutons persuaded the Deltasonic head into working with them.

The first case, Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills, concerned a Federal provision criminalising the " bringing into disrepute " of members of an industrial relations tribunal, and a prosecution under that provision of a person who had published a

After going into receivership that year, the company was refinanced by a group of bankers from Boston and reincorporated as Wills Sainte Claire Incorporated in 1923.

He entered into a partnership with Edward Wills, and trading activities were extended to Bass Strait, the Pacific Islands and, from 1809, to China and India.

Written by 30-year music-industry veteran, Isaias Gamboa, the book is the product of three years of exhaustive research and demonstrates in extraordinary detail that We Shall Overcome was in fact derived from a popular copyrighted Baptist hymn entitled, " If My Jesus Wills "-written in 1942 by an African American Baptist choir director named Louise Shropshire.

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

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys remained popular after the war, and could not provide enough new recordings to fill demand.

Along with Bob Wills — whom he performed with at the beginning of this career — Brown developed the sound and style of Western swing in the early 1930s ; and for a while he and his band, the Musical Brownies, were more popular than Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

Fred Wills served as club captain for the Demerara Cricket Club ( DCC ) in Georgetown, Guyana, and was a popular announcer at cricket games in the U. S. Guyanese cricket fans have proposed renaming the DCC Pavilion as Fred Wills Pavilion.

As children, swamp pop musicians listened to ( and often performed ) traditional Cajun music and black Creole ( zydeco ) music, as well as popular country and western ( hillbilly ) songs by musicians like Bob Wills, Moon Mullican and Hank Williams, Sr.

To capitalize on the pioneering success of the Bob Wills – Tommy Duncan pairing, Cooley hired vocalist Tex Williams who was capable of the mellow deep baritone sound made popular by Duncan.

It was a mixture of diverse influences, including swing, blues, polka and popular cowboy songs, and included early stars like Bob Wills, who became among the best known musicians of the era.

Other popular cigarette brands owned by ITC are Wills & Scissors.

Royal Barry Wills became the most popular architect in America after World War II because of his role in modernizing the Cape and promoting an appealing living option for middle-class families.

According to Berry, his favorite song to sing at integrated clubs (“ salt and pepper clubs ”, as he called them ) was the traditional country song " Ida Red ", an uptempo dance number made popular by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys with their 1938 recording.

Other celebrated productions included Much Ado About Nothing, The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the immensely popular Faust by William Gorman Wills ( 1885, which even drew applications for reserved seats from foreigners ), Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ), Henry VII ( 1892 ), Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ( 1895 ), Cymbeline ( 1896 ) and Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ).

In addition to Rodgers and the Carters, a musician named Bob Wills was an influential early performer known for a style called Western swing, which was very popular in the 1920s and 30s, and was responsible for bringing a prominent jazz influence to country music.