Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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H. G. Wells' contribution to filmlandia, "Things to Come" has passed out of the first run stage, but it is a sufficiently interesting film to justify a short excursion into the provinces. It is to be found in town at the Uptown Theatre, along with Bette Davis in "The Golden...
Fortnight ago a gang of WPA workmen were placidly sandpapering the features of a marble George Washington in Philadelphia's dark old City Hall. Suddenly a hoarse, poodle-haired Italian swept among them, seized their abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal...
Technically there is only one vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board because Ralph Waldo Morrison's resignation still lies unaccepted on President Roosevelt's desk (TIME, June 1). The unoccupied seat, earmarked for a farmers' spokesman, has not been warmed since the new Board was appointed last...
Mr. Davis is no banker. "I probably will be of little use on the Board until another such period [as the post-War depression] comes along," said the slight, nervous, greying farm expert last week, referring to what he considered the sorry lack of coordination in Federal banking and agricultural...
His sympathies gravitated toward his deposed predecessor, Mr. Peek, however, and a few months ago President Roosevelt bundled him off to Europe to inspect foreign farm conditions. It was after that trip that Mr. Davis made the curious suggestion that one good way to promote foreign farm markets was to...