Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I read with interest and amusement your editorial on the Palestine situation, and noticed a current fallacy: you attempt to reach liberal conclusions on the basis of "facts" issued by the Department of the Interior and their been companions, the oil corporations. Since 1870 there have been rumors of an...
¶ Ralph K. Davies, former Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War, was an "insider" (Oilman Davies left the Administration 13 months ago).
* The Big Five, which have gone through a number of changes in ownership, now are: Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd. (founded by two missionaries' sons); C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. (founded by a New England trader, James Hunnewell); Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. (founded by Theophilus Davies, of England); American Factors, Ltd...
Probably most intriguing to the U.S. reader are the rich specimens mined from out-of-the-way pockets of the British isles. If E. Glyn Lewis' essay on Welsh literature and Rhys Davies' rich, Chaucerian story about a sin-hunting minister are at all representative, this section is...
¶ From the pulpit of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church, the Rev. A. Powell Davies denounced longer skirts. Long skirts are "immoral," he declared, because they "will deprive the shivering people of Europe of the wool they need to keep them warm in a coal-less winter."