Word: davey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fayetteville, Ark., Texas Christian, undefeated and untied last year, showed that they missed little Davey O'Brien-the one-man gang of 1938 (now playing professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles)-as they lost their opening Conference game to Arkansas...
Later, after pondering Lady Astor's description of Jura, separated from the mainland by 25 miles of racing tides, on which not even agriculturally minded Lord Astor could raise sheep profitably, Davey welshed completely on his bet, asked: "What would I do with a farm? This is not a case of Davey Kirkwood or any other man, for that matter, going to farm on Lady Astor's island. I want the Government to do something...
...star side men in the band are Davey Malthews on also sax, who is a Benny Carter disciple, the pianoman, and Ralph Hawkins, the drummer. It's unfair to place final judgment on the band as it has only had a few months' shaping, but if it quiets down and indulges in a little more relaxed rhythm, the end-point ought to be damn good...
...Presidential prospect. His biggest chore: to get a $9,250,000 Relief appropriation passed without having to impose new taxes, which would violate his campaign pledges. His biggest asset, other than his own vigor and mien, is the fact that his predecessor was bumbling Democrat Martin Luther Davey, whose administration thoroughly fed up Ohioans of all parties. Last week Governor Bricker signed one of several bills designed to oust Davey holdovers. His latest "ripper" ejected from the State parole board the former Governor's former secretary, Mrs. Myrna Young Smith, whom Martin Davey appointed just before he left office...
...iron-grey-haired 45-year-old who has the elemental political prerequisites. He was a farm boy, schoolteacher, lawyer, a notably honest utilities commissioner, an ab.e State attorney-general before he ran and won on last year's Republican upswell. He pared $3,000,000 from the last Davey budget, in turning out the Daveycrats he offended some politicos by holding Republican patronage within bounds. Every inch a Presidential prospect in his own mind, he is mortally afraid that indiscreet friends or canny enemies will boom him too soon, explode his chance to come up opportunely in the convention...