Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hannibal, Mo., Christopher Morley, author, and Carter Davidson, president of Knox College, visited Mark Twain's boyhood home, found some unpainted pickets on a fence between the house and the Mark Twain Museum, rolled up their sleeves, white-washed the fence...
Such facts are pleasing to seamy-faced Dr. Gabriel Davidson, who last week rendered his 30th annual report as general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Established in 1900, the Society is still backed by a fund set up by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish philanthropist who spent millions trying to improve the lot of European Jews, to get them to emigrate from their ghettos. In 1900 there were 200 Jewish farmers in the U. S. Today, although many Americans have never seen any Jewish farmers, there are nearly 100,000, many of whom have...
...Jewish agriculturalists, Dr. Davidson-who is too busy to farm himself-says that most are immigrant Jews, most come from trades such as the needle and fur, most seek farms and remain on them because farming is a peaceful way of life. Because they are city-bred, Jewish farmers are apt to have more plumbing, electricity, furnaces, radios, telephones than the average U. S. farmer...
...ALBUM ELECTION *Robert M. Bunker 223 *Richard H. Sullivan 215 *James Tobin 179 *Robert E. L. Strider, 2d 165 *Harold M. Curtiss, Jr. 164 Robert T. Gannett, 2d 163 W. Scott Long, Jr. 160 Laurence S. Johnson 134 Wendell N. Calkins 133 Frank P. Davidson 129 Robert W. Bean 125 Calvin W. Stillman 116 Charles D. Dyer, 3d 111 David W. Nussbaum 78 *Elected
...Junior Tibum election, the class of 1939 will pick five from a list which includes Bean, Bunker, Calkins, Curtiss, Davidson, Dyer, Gannett, Johnson, Long, Nussbaum, Stillman, Strider, Sullivan, and Tobin...