Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight the War Department sounded off twice. Both announcements were sponsored by Secretary of War Davis himself but from the subject involved it was plain to see that the Assistant Secretary of War, chunky, cheerful Hanford MacNider, was on his job. The subject of the announcement and the MacNider...
Munitions sufficient to supply two of these three armies until U. S. industry could be converted to a war basis are supposed to be stored in U. S. arsenals. This provision of the National Defense Act was the nub of the first of the War Department announcements. Secretary Davis notified...
Unabashed, Secretary Davis last week issued his second announcement in the form of a letter to Congress. This time he discussed sources of munitions instead of sums. Not only would the first two U. S. Field Armies run short of munitions soon after a war began, but, as things now...
Anticipating critics who would say that to let the War Department place "educational" orders would swamp the War Department with demands for patronage, Secretary Davis referred again to the existing shortage of reserve munitions. Moreover, he pointed out that powder grows old. Small-arm ammunition lives 10 years; artillery shells...
Two years ago Max Phillips, money maker in collars, was annoyed. He believed himself threatened with arrest for violation of the Mann Act. He sued his nephew by marriage Bernard K. Marcus, president of the Bank of United States. He believed an arrest had been "framed" to ruin him. He...