Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David H. Blair, Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
...Chicago, there was a banquet. Seymour Parker Gilbert, "Dawes plan' administrator, sat down. He was guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance...
...when the U. S. Senate finally denies Senator-suspect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania his seat, alert, greyhaired, busy-buzzing Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, will try to fill the vacancy. And when the seat of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania comes up for election in November, able, redhaired, social-working Mrs. Gifford Pinchot will try to fill that vacancy. So, at least, rumored one Jane Randolph, Capitol newsgatherer, last week...
This baby was David Schuyler. He grew up with his nephews and nieces who were older than himself. In a sense, he was like them, carrying on in his small person many of those clan qualities that made the Schuylers a tough and strenuous unit. But he had added to his mother's wiry energy and to his father's clumsy power a delicacy of mind that had never been developed in either of them. Early in his life he began to read books not for amusement, although they excited him beyond all games or merriments, but because...
...David Franklin Houston, President of Mutual Life Insurance Co., former Secretary of the Treasury...