Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Miss Williams and "My co-worker Nell Davis."
At Omaha, Neb., the national council of the Congregational Church met for conference last week; elected President Ozora S. Davis of Chicago Theological Seminary moderator, onetime Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado vice moderator, President Calvin Coolidge honorary moderator (for the third time); organized the Congregationalists Home Board to perpetrate...
Of Moderator Davis, a leaflet of the Chicago Theological Seminary says: "A sturdy body, attached to Chippendale legs, and surmounted by a bulldog profile-that is your first impression of him. Afterward his twinkling eyes and gigantic laughter would attract you" He was born in Vermont; worked in his youth...
James John Davis (U. S. Secretary of Labor) addressed graduating high-school students at Follansbee, W. Va., where he once worked in a steel mill. He declared that because of his love for the "the romance of steel he would return to his old job-but for being a member...
Landlubbing men and women marveled at the newspaper story of one Bessie Davis of Brooklyn, who recently "learned to fly an airplane after only 20 minutes' instruction." But Miss Davis had performed no astounding feat-considering the fact that she simply manipulated one set of controls of a dual...