Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buccaneers like Bonito and Captain Edward Davis are supposed to have used lonely Cocos, 400 mi. from the mainland, to cache their booty. In modern times many a gentleman of fortune has searched Cocos for pirates' spoils. Not long after Franklin Roosevelt stopped to fish at Cocos on his...
Secretary of State: Senator Borah, Senator Johnson, Bainbridge Colby, John W. Davis, Newton D. Baker.
In 1933 the Tennessean went into receivership and last year its founder was jailed for defrauding a North Carolina bank of $1,384.000 (TIME, May 21, 1934). When, at 55, Luke Lea put on the striped suit of Convict No. 29,409 to begin a six-to-ten-year term...
As publisher of the Houston Chronicle, Jesse Jones long ago promised that RFC would make no newspaper investments, lest the New Deal be suspected of trying to control the U. S. Press. Month ago RFC secretly acquired a third of the Tennessean's outstanding bonds from a defunct New...
President Roosevelt will broadcast a message from the Caribbean as the concluding speech of the evening. These talks have been sponsored by the Herald Tribune, and the program tonight concludes the series which has included dozens of notable speakers, including Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Norman H. Davis, Sir...