Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Three-Party Fight. The presence of a third party in the contest does not mean that there will be three contenders racing neck and neck. It means that LaFollette will try to take enough votes away from the two Reading tickets so that neither Coolidge nor Davis will have...
Mr. Davis has been married twice. His first wife died little more than a year after their marriage in 1899. His second marriage took place in 1912. He has one daughter, Julia, by his first wife. She recently was married to one William McMillan Adams.
*The only time at which President Coolidge and Mr. Davis met was last April, when the President addressed the Convention of the Associated Press. Mr. Davis was introduced as "one who may be your political rival in the Fall." Mr. Coolidge bowed.
Leading the field of Presidential nominees are, of course, Coolidge and Davis. Hot on their heels, or perhaps a little farther back, run the 20 to 1,100 to 1,1,000 to 1, and 1,000,000 to 1 shots. There are plenty of them.
If John W. Davis had written the Democratic platform, much as Coolidge and LaFollette dictated their respective platforms, there would be no need to tabulate his opinions separately. The following is the platform which Mr. Davis wrote himself, as compiled from many utterances made here and there: