Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia's Democratic primary last week, Carter Glass Jr. lost out for the State Senate, but Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, won his race. It was the first try for each...
Bull's-eye No. 1 was Stanley and Livingstone (Twentieth Century-Fox), a $2,200,000 version of what the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett Jr. regarded as the greatest news story of all time: the search for vanished British Missionary David Livingstone by the Floyd Gibbons of his age, Mr. Bennett's Henry Morton Stanley. To make the film, Producer Darryl Zanuck sent Mrs. Osa Johnson and a crew of technicians and extras to Africa for six months, had them assemble an authentic, awe-inspiring record of a savage country and people that would...
...Detroit last week the startled Appeal Board of the Michigan Tax Commission was confronted with a jungle-like black beard. Hiding behind it was Judge Harry Thomas Dewhirst, head of the famed House of David. Male members of this U. S. cult neither shave nor trim their locks, eat no flesh, in the stout belief that thus they will be among the 144,000 elect when Gabriel blows his horn. Judge Dewhirst, rich onetime California jurist, bearded the Appeal Board to beg his sect off from Michigan's unemployment-compensation taxes. He admitted his colony was in business...
Judge Dewhirst revealed that the House of David, never very large, had dwindled somewhat in recent years. It has 171 members, who pool their possessions, employ some 70 other people on occasion. Like many another eccentric sect, it has a rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House of David "As Reorganized by Mary Purnell," widow of its founder "King Benjamin." Mary Purnell specializes in tourist cabins, tourist-trade souvenirs. Judge Dewhirst runs the four famed House of David baseball teams, spry outfits all, a fruit-packing plant, his own tourist cabins and a cocktail room...
...signal to the city that the Spanish-American War had started. Said he jokingly: "In a few minutes the phone will ring and it'll be Tarbell telling me that I'm to cover the war." In a few minutes the phone did ring and Managing Editor David Tarbell told surprised Jock Bellairs that he was to cover the war. Correspondent Bellairs scooped Richard Harding Davis and many another prima donna on the attack on the U. S. torpedo-boat Winslow, returned to St. Louis a newspaperman's hero, went back to covering police. Around him have...