Word: davieses
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The Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome...
This warning to the U.S. people came from a man who should know. For two and a half years Joseph E. Davies, onetime (1936-38) Ambassador to Russia, had kept secret the f ct that the Germans once came to him seeking peace.* Last week he told the story at...
Reporting now to the nation at large, Davies said he spoke as an "American lawyer, a capitalist and an individualist who believes that our system of government and our competitive society of free and fair enterprise are the best devised by mankind.
* TIME reported the peace offensive (TIME, July 8, 1940), suggested Madrid as the most likely scene of negotiations (which may also have been true). Ex-Ambassador Davies identified the negotiators only as "an American businessman and industrialist, who had spent many years in Europe, and a European businessman who had...
From a cozy game of bridge up stood Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, Bridgeplayer Ely Culbertson. Their conditions, reported later by Culbertson: Litvinoff, $32 richer; Culbertson, $8 richer; Davies, $2 richer; the Secretary of Commerce (whose best game is...