Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At Easthampton, L. I., last week judges of a baby contest scrutinized 170 babies, held conference, announced decision. The healthiest of all the babies was pronounced to be Jewel Davis, 16-month-old daughter of James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. Observers commented on the fact that should any member...
So Colonel C. B. Hodges, acting superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy, wrote to the State Department of Public Works forbidding the passage of the proposed highway. Promptly replied Colonel Frederick Stuart Greene, pointing out that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis has issued a permit for this highway...
Died. Mrs, Joseph Pulitzer, 78, widow of the founder of the present New York World; at Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D. C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she...
In Manhattan, Miss Thompson's employers grinned. She had made a great stroke. They splashed impressively on their front page about the celebrated novelist who was turning "reporter for a day" for the Post. They primed the Post's readers for some stories of strife such as had not been...
To Lawyer Marshall, Mr. Ford had sent two of his agents (Earl J. Davis of Detroit, onetime [1924-25] Assistant Attorney General of the U. S., and one Joseph Palma of Manhattan). They asked Lawyer Marshall how Mr. Ford could most efficaciously erase the Jewish animosity that he had created...