Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservative Mr. Doorly rolled up his sleeves. He waded into his onetime friend James E. Davidson, president of Nebraska Power, dubbed the power-directors "highly subsidized dummies" of absentee landlords. Davidson's minions snapped back with the ridiculous charge that Doorly was a "Communist." Then Omaha's Mayor Dan B. Butler stepped in. He appointed a power commission, offered $40,680,000 for the property. Five days later this move was blocked by an injunction halting operations of the Mayor's commission. Myers watched these maneuvers with the experienced eye of an old campaigner, accustomed...
...Edwin M. Davidson '45, of Adams House and New York, was the highest scorer among Harvard students taking the United States Armed Forces Institute examinations given late last month, Assistant Dean Henry S. Dyer '28 announced yesterday...
...Reading Materials in the Social Studies. Another quadruple tie resulted in the Test of Reading Materials in the Natural Sciences, with the following men in first place: Harry T. Miles, Jr. '47, Jerome J. Newman '47, Reuben P. Hersh '47--the only double-winner--and grand-prize-winner Davidson...
...Dean Hanford promised in announcing the series, prizes will be awarded to high scorers. For being highest scorer on all four tests combined, Davidson will receive forty dollars in books or cash; the fifteen dollar prizes for highest scores on the individual tests will presumably be divided among the tied winners...
Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, vacationing in the U.S. before leaving for the Pacific, received several new attentions. At the University of New Mexico, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters; in Manhattan, Sculptor Jo Davidson completed his bust of Pyle; in Washington, Sculptor Max Kalish prepared to do a statue of Pyle for the Smithsonian Institution's Living Hall of Washington TIME...