Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the Senators suspected Ickes of ballyhooing the shortage "to foster a war psychology." Serious, dark-haired Ralph K. Davies, Ickes' oil deputy, did his best to make the shortage seem real. His figures: the Atlantic Seaboard will burn 199,900,000 barrels of petroleum products in the...
Died. Edward Beale McLean, 55, onetime publisher of the Washington Post, buyer of the famed Hope diamond; near Baltimore. He bought the diamond for a rumored $154,000 in 1911, gave it to his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, mining heiress (Father Struck It Rich). In the early '20s they...
First thing he did was appoint Ralph K. Davies, of Standard Oil Co. of California, as Deputy Petroleum Coordinator, a job reported last week to have gone to Texan Alvin J. Wirtz. Oilmen, who like and respect Davies, drew one small breath of relief.
Robert L. Leopold Bobette Sondheim, WheatonHarold R. Rooks Mary Alice Fletcher, LincolnR. Lee Thomas Bette Woodward, Iowa StateWilliam B. Walker, II Dorothy Warren, BeaverAlexander Williams, Jr. Ann Cross, BuckinghamMASSACHUSETTS HALLDavid Baldwin Edith Surrey, WellesleyGeorge H. Blaxter Lois Ann Degener, RadcliffeWilliam C. Hodges Virginia Veale, Katherine GibbsJulian E. Meyer, Jr. Grace...
The day after his inauguration for the Third Term, President Roosevelt held his press conference as usual. Only new note: he dodged unwelcome questions with a new excuse-that he was too sleepy to answer, his children having kept him up late. He praised Joseph Davies, chairman of the inaugural...