Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What chances are there of his bringing this about? Mr. LaFollette has a good chance of carrying five states: Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana. These states have 39 electoral votes. He may possibly carry seven or eight more, giving him a total of 80 electoral votes. With these votes, unless...
* The five companies are Armour Grain Co., Rosenbaum Grain Corp., J. C. Schaffer & Co., Rosenbaum Bros, (all of Chicago), and the Davis-Noland-Merrill Grain Co. (of Kansas City). It is possible that the Bartlett-Frazier Co. (of Chicago) may enter the arrangement later.
After her marriage Ellen Graham Bassell became Mrs. John W. Davis. Twelve years later she became the wife of a nominee. As such she now figures.
Like her husband, or perhaps because of her husband, she has not abstained from politics. But the politics of which she partakes is not the kind of politics which her husband pursues. John W. Davis is the son of the late John J. Davis, who was for long a political...
It was at this point that Ellen Graham Bassell appeared on the scene, to become the second Mrs. Davis. Said Town Topics: "In entertaining small talk she is the equal of John William himself, certainly of Robert Lansing, and is entirely comparable to the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson." Besides, she...