Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going below, Captain Aubert found his passengers picking themselves up, putting themselves to rights, after being tumbled about for three minutes as in a brutal storm. Fortunately, the only damage was minor bruises, sprains and a scratch in the left hand of right-handed Jean Borotra, Davis Cup tennis man...
U. S. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, director general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place...
The man whose secretary Mrs. Davis (Jean Rodenbaugh) was before her marriage, Rodney H. Brandon, Moose executive secre- tary, explained the order's new concrete program. "Let's broaden our horizon!" he declared. "Let's remember other people's children as well as those who are children of Moose!" To...
At Mooseheart, Ill., is a home for orphaned Moose boys and girls. They are taught trades, educated through high school, afforded college scholarships. Director General Davis suggested that Moose children may be admitted in future at the death of their mother only, provided their fathers pay tuition.
Sir John Daniel, "Biscuit king of Great Britain" and Cardiff shipbuilder, headed a delegation of Welsh Moose; handed Director General Davis a gavel made of wood from the house where Mr. Davis was born, in Tredegar, Wales.