Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor Davis, who went abroad last month, is expected back on Aug. 25. It is believed that he may unofficially cause negotiations to be resumed.
At Newport in his native Wales, James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, visited an iron foundry, grabbed a pair of tongs, "performed expertly a small job." The men, informed that Mr. Davis had been an ironworker before he became Secretary of Labor, cheered lustily.
At Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last...
In Baltimore. Japan with its Harada defeated Spain despite its dashing Manuel Alonso in the elimination trials for the Davis Cup matches.
The Davis Cup doubles tryout promised, at first, to end in an impasse. First Tilden and Johnston defeated Richards and Williams; then Williams and Richards beat Johnston and Tilden. A selection committee admitted that it could find nothing to choose between the two teams. They began a deciding match. Williams...