Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The plane carrying America's No. 1 Russophile on Mission II to Moscow circled down at the Soviet capital with an escort of five fighters. On his head energetic, individualistic ex-Ambassador Joe Davies wore the first Panama hat seen in Moscow in many a day. Under his arm...
No one but the U.S. President and a secretary-typist knew what the letter contained. Before the week was out Nazi propagandists would say that Messenger Davies had brought a proposal for the history-making dissolution of the Comintern (see col. 2). Other speculation: the letter had to do with...
Schofield Andrews, Jr., David Bullard, Arnold, Jr., Alfre Lerow Atherton, Jr., Warren Stanley Berg, Stuart Marshall Beringer, David George Bernard, Franklin Swift Billings, Jr., George Edward Byers, Jr., George Scull Cook, Jacob Leslie Crane, 3d., Richard Lloyd Davies, George Chaffee Dillon, Frederick William Eaton, 2d., James Murray Forbes, Henry Edgar...
Davies v. Congress. Mission to Moscow concludes with Ambassador Davies making a lecture tour on which he "explains" Russia to the U.S. people. It contrasts his speeches with anti-conscription rallies and meetings of U.S. businessmen demanding business as usual with Hitler.
Asked Critics Dewey and La Follette: "What are the facts? [Mr. Davies'] swing around the circle took place in the winter of 1941 and 1942-mostly in 1942. The conscription act was passed by Congress in September 1940. . . . Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, and American businessmen...