Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the parade of visitors past his desk that fact was emphasized. He confabbed with Senator Wagner who will write his 1936 platform; with John L. Lewis, backer of Labor's Nonpartisan League to re-elect Roosevelt, Democratic Chairman Farley, Governors Davey of pivotal Ohio and McNutt of pivotal...
Wrote the Saturday Evening Post of Senator Harrison in 1923: "He is the official sniper and sharpshooter of the Democratic side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person...
The Legion's "Colonel" Harvey Davis decided on hanging. Poole was lured to the meeting on the pretext that he was needed for a sandlot baseball team. The men piled into a string of automobiles with their victim, started out of town. At a spot near Dearborn, after a...
Soon after onetime AAAdministrator Chester Charles Davis, on a newshawk's tip, began to evolve the Soil Conservation Act as a substitute for unconstitutional AAA (TIME, Jan. 27), President Roosevelt gratefully sent him to Europe to look for possible U. S. grain markets. Said Mr. Davis then: "My job...
(3 of 3) 1,000,000 employes may be partially affected, possibly 150,000 let out. Since the average service of railway men is notably long, this would put a heavy burden on the railroads. Another possibility was expressed by President John Marcus Davis of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western: "If traffic...