Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dwight Filley Davis, Acting Secretary of War, wrote to the Mayor of New York City, demanded that the city hasten its construction of planned incineration plants so that it may cease to trouble the great sea - and New Jersey-with its offal.
The dual celebration called forth, however, an almost unparalleled number of speeches. Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Acting Secretary of War Davis, General Pershing, Vice President Dawes talked by radio.
Acting Secretary Davis remarked in this connection:
French Champion. At Chantilly, France, A. M. Vagliano dug his ball out of the cuppy, sandy lies; kept it out of the briars and birchwoods along the boundaries; evaded the gullies near the clubhouse; holed his putts on the bleached, worm-ridden greens. Against him played strapping André Gobert...
Married. Miss Eleanor M. A. Sparks, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, head of the Cunard Line in this country, to J. L. Mott III, grandson of the famed plumbing manufacturer; in Oyster Bay, L. I. John Davis Lodge, grandson of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, was best man.