Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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U. S. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis* announced that ex-Premier David Lloyd George will leave England on board the Mauretama, Sept. 30, arriving at Manhattan, Oct. 5. During his stay, he will be the guest of Welsh societies.
Former Governor David William Davis of Idaho, a Welshman by birth. (Although brought to this country in infancy, he asserted his birthright by becoming a coal miner at the age of twelve.)
Citizens of Aurora, 111., obtained from the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan, a carload of 215 paintings and bronzes, and exhibited them for nine days at the Central States Exposition in Aurora. From other cities came other pictures and bronzes -enough to fill ten galleries in the art buildings of the...
Owen Johnson, novelist: "I won first prize (a silver cup) at the Stockbridge (Mass.) Grange Fair for best display of farm products, vegetables, flowers. Norman H. Davis (financial adviser to President Wilson at Paris) won in the six variety class in vegetables."
Died. Mr. Hawkes, father of John B. Hawkes (Australian Davis Cup tennis player), in the Japanese earthquake. (The despatches gave no information about Mr. Hawkes other than his relationship to John B. Hawkes.)