Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON was Secretary of the Treasury, and not Andrew W. Mellon. ELIHU ROOT was Secretary of War, and not Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Taft or Newton D. Baker.
Secretary Davis sent out a second batch of telegrams. A few "big fellows" who wanted to be courteous to the Administration accepted.† But the handful of operators who turned up in Washington were mostly "little fellows" who feel the coal industry's ailment almost as painfully as Labor...
Three United Mine Workers, three operators and Secretary Davis constituted the committee which did most of the actual conferring. When they had finished Secretary Davis issued statements. His points: 1) "It is useless for small operators to attend any conference unless the major operators attend and agree to remedial measures...
†Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is privately close to large bituminous interests. No list of the operators attending Secretary Davis' conference was made public.
Coal Ultimatum. Hearing how many a potent coal mine operator had declined to accept Secretary of Labor Davis's invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the...