Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, before opening a campaign to dissuade home-builders from stucco and brick, invited the public to invent a rallying-cry. Last fortnight first prize ($5,000) went to one James E. Noble Jr. of Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service...
After practicing law locally with West Virginia coal men for his clients, John William Davis became internationally famed. He went to Congress for four years, then was U. S. Solicitor General, then went to the Court of St. James's as U. S. Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff...
There is, however, a law of compensation. Last week Guy Despard Goff reached out for the honor, almost as high as any John William Davis ever had, of standing forth as West Virginia's candidate for the G. O. P. candidacy. He entered his name for the West Virginia...
The gringo in question was Robert Kinsey, of U. S. birth, but a member of the Mexican Davis Cup Team. His play last week in the tennis matches against the U. S. was indifferent, almost sour. William Tatem Tilden II ran him razzle-frazzle in three straight sets. That was...
U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow watched some of the matches. Mexicans enjoyed the sizzling exhibition battles between U. S. players more than the Davis Cup walkaway.