Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A new scholastic award known as the Edward Whitaker Prize Scholarship has been established at Harvard, according to an announcement by University authorities. This scholarship was made possible by a gift of Mrs. Samuel Davis. Later a second Edward Whitaker award will be established.
¶ As part of his policy to strengthen U. S. diplomacy in Central and South America, President Hoover made a seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa...
Other Davis immigration proposals: preference under the quota to immigrants who could supply U. S. occupational needs: extension of quota restrictions to North, Central, South American countries.
"A thing of shreds and patches" was Secretary of Labor James John Davis's description of the fabric of the U. S. immigration law. In his annual Department report he recommended that Congress:
CLASS DAY COMMITTEE * James Gordon Douglas Jr.174 * William Thomson Wetmore 164 * Josiah Warren Potter 161 * Foster Stone Davis 149 * Vincent Lawrence Hennessy 113 * Charles Beaman Lakin 110 * James Lindsay Ware 99 Nathaniel Warner 98 Frederic Tudor Burgess 96 Francis Edward Nugent 95 Alexander Maxwell Stollmeyer 91 Arthur Ingraham Jr. 87...