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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They meant not only that he was filling well the sub-Cabinet post that fell to him when Dwight Filley Davis was promoted in 1925 but that he had a good banking business back home, as much vitality as ambition, a hard head, and a multitude of friends everywhere (in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: MacNider Out, Robbins In | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

In a Cleveland law office, that of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, there sat last week among the lawyers two men, Frank A. Seiberling, 69, and his old friend, Edgar B. Davis, 55.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business is Business | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

In those days, Mr. Davis was a director of the U. S. Rubber Co. The intention of the men who had incorporated the U. S. Rubber Co. in 1892 had been to merge the many rubber manufacturers of the U. S. They did gather together into an efficient union scattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business is Business | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

The late Charles M. Hall, inventor of the modern processes for making aluminum, left in his will a very substantial bequest to the trustees of his estate, Mr. Homer H. Johnson '88 and Mr. Arthur V. Davis, to be devoted to educational work in Asia and the Balkan States in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWLY FORMED HARVARD INSTITUTE AT YENCHING | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

Michard is a professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Idol | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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