Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas, a Democrat, had only a day or two more of his term to serve when suddenly a warrant was sworn out for him and his son.
They were accused of taking a bribe. It was charged that one Fred W. Pollman, a banker convicted of forgery and sentenced to prison had, with the knowledge of state attorneys, entered into negotiations with Russell Davis, the Governor's son; that he promised to pay $1,250 in...
Both Governor and son furnished $1,000 bail and the Governor retired from office two hours later. Turning from the manuscript of his farewell address, Mr. Davis, "without wavering," defended himself thus:
The noble Nordic of Richard Harding Davis fame who tamed wild generals and won beautiful women in the hot Spanish southland has long since passes the sceptre of popular favor to that delicate product of modern novelists: the hero who analyzes and records his "complexes." Yet when this newer type...
"The Haunted House" at the New Park. A mystery play by Owen Davis, author of the "Nervous Wreck", and featuring Wallace Eddinger.