Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The potency of Mr. Davies' political backing was indicated by the guests honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries...
Heading Volume XX was a four-page biography of the New York Times's late, great Publisher Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935), written by onetime Timesman Elmer Davis. It was Publisher Ochs who made the Dictionary possible. When the American Council of Learned Societies met in 1924 to discuss...
¶Last July, Manhattan Lawyer Philip Davis boarded a New York Central train at Albany with a ticket for New York. Along with a score of others, he could find no seat in the day coaches, though there were plenty available in the Pullmans. When the conductor came along, Lawyer...
In Municipal Court, the road claimed that it is impossible to determine in advance exactly how many passengers will take a train, that the officials do as best they can. The road admitted that day-coach passengers unable to find seats may legally take unoccupied seats in Pullmans at no...
In Manhattan last week Missionaries said that their messages had reached a total of 1,000,000 people. Biggest per capita turn-out for their meetings was in Billings, Mont. (pop. 20,000) where police daily counted 2,000 to 3,000 automobiles and some 8,000 people on the...