Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributions account of Representative David J. Lewis for his unsuccessful campaign to purge Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, last week revealed sums totaling $17,282 from Liberal Columnist Drew Pearson ("Washington Merry-Go-Round") and his two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Lange of Palo Alto, Calif, and Mrs. Ellen Fogg of Moylan, Pa. One possible explanation of Columnist Pearson's dislike for Senator Tydings: they once courted the same girl, Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough (now Mrs. Tydings...
...Prague had gone two British Labor Party henchmen, Messrs. Gillies and David Grenfell, especially to succor Social-Democratic Sudetens. "These people must be saved if we have to rouse the whole world" said Gillies and Grenfell in a joint statement. "The Czechs will now forfeit within a few days the claim to the worldwide sympathy they have deservedly won if they drive back to torture and death at the hands of the Nazis these front-line Soldiers of Democracy...
Married. Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 26, youngest son of Scotland's Premier Peer, like his eldest brother Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, a famed amateur boxer, airplane pilot, mountaineer; and 23-year-old Prunella ("Perfect Girl") Stack, head of Great Britain's Women's League of Health and Beauty; in Glasgow, Scotland...
...David Cushman Coyle has three reputations-engineer, eccentric, economist. As engineer, he designed the Washington State Capitol, worked on the New York Life building, served as technical adviser to PWA. As eccentric, he omitted heating facilities from the second floor of his Bronxville, N.Y. home because he believes people should sleep in cold rooms. As economist, he attended the famous dinner at which Dr. William A. Wirt later said he had heard that Roosevelt was a U.S. Kerensky and that a flock of Reds were waiting to take over the Government; then, with a series of 25? and 50? pamphlets...
With a few detours into blind alleys, David Coyle thus blithely and optimistically charges down the middle of his road to a new U.S. His moral is that business should be encouraged, not dismayed, by signs of CONSTRUCTION AHEAD. "The middle-of-the-road doctrine, adopted in this book," he explains, "is that the common theory of capitalism is not an iron law, but that capitalism is flexible enough to escape...