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...quantity of Presbyterian preachers. His second was to replace them with young Ph.D.'s. The new instructors, with their liberal leanings, proved Dr. Seacock's undoing. Few months ago word got out that he was at odds with fully half the regents, including their Chairman James Edward Davidson...
James Edward Davidson is a name to command respect among Nebraskans. In 1923 Mr. Davidson was King of Ak Sar Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), Omaha's Mardi Gras. In 1929. by courtesy of the American Legion, he was First Citizen of Omaha. He is president of Nebraska Power Co., past president of the National Electric Light Association. Mr. Davidson was reported dissatisfied with ihe disrespectful treatment which Dr. Sealock's young instructors gave private ownership of public utilities...
...Edward Clement Davidson of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit discovered that he could coagulate burned surfaces by soaking them with tannic acid. The tanned coating kept body moisture from escaping, germs from entering...
...list of patronesses includes Mrs. Edward Ballantine, Mrs. P. de M. Barbey, Mrs. Fox Conner, Mrs. Archibald T. Davidson, Mrs. Sidney Fay, Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mrs. C. H. Haring, Miss Minna F. Holl, Mrs. James R. Jewett, Mrs. Bernard C. Jones, Mrs. Joseph Lee, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. Edward K. Rand, Mrs. D. P. Rhodes, Mrs. Thomas Russell, Mrs. Harlow Shapley, Mrs. Philip L. Spalding, Mrs. Walter R. Spaulding, and Mrs. Edmund A. Whitman...
...which date from 1909 to 1933, is pure Stein. A gallery of word-portraits of Stein friends and acquaintances, it is mostly concerned with literary and artistic figures: Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Van Vechten (to whom the book is dedicated), Sherwood Anderson, Jo Davidson, Edith Sitwell et al. Persevering readers may puzzle long to discover whether these portraits are flattering or otherwise; presumably they are as objective as Author Stein can make them. The reader who wins to p. 105 will discover a portrait of one Harriet which is egregiously clear. Some...