Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the colony at Mystic is Robert Brackman, 41, outspoken foe of "modern" art, a National Academy member, who is well off with 53 summer students, gets fat prices for his female nudes, and in his portrait work can afford to turn down women, paint only men whose faces he...
Died. Acting Flight Lieutenant James W. Davies, 27, sole U. S. ace of World War II; when the plane he was flying ran out of gas, plunged into the English Channel. Lieut. Davies was to have received the Distinguished Flying Cross from King George that day.
At a meeting in London to discuss home defense, Clement Davies, M. P. stormed: "Any schoolboy who can throw a cricket ball can throw a bomb. Women should have grenades with which to defend their homes and babies." - Correct: "Labor omnia vincit."
More serious to the Government than the hue & cry of the opposition were indications that its nominal supporters were fed up with the shilly-shallying war policy hitherto pursued and were about to bolt from the ranks. "What we want is a real War Cabinet with someone at the top...
" Representing unemployed Welsh coal miners, Liberal National Clement Davies, M. P. chimed: "It is quite obvious to me that we are waging two wars in this country. The first is against the enemy and the other against the upholders of the doctrine of laissez faire." The whole German press soon...