Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ At a White House luncheon Secretary Hull and the President considered Japan's attempt to close the open door in China (TIME, April 30). At another luncheon, Mr. Hull and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis held a serious and none too hopeful discussion on the Disarmament Conference, to...
In the drawing room sat other kin of the late Mrs. Vanderbilt: Nephews Harold Stirling and William Kissam Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb; Brother-in-law Frederick K.; Sisters-in-law Emily (Mrs. Henry B. White), Edith (Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, widow of George Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb...
Shrapnel. The publishers fired a blast at the proposed Newsprint Code which, they insisted, "is a monopoly, make no mistake about it"; shot at the Post Office Department for its contention that newspapers are largely responsible for the heavy deficit on second-class mail; proposed coinage of a 3?-piece...
Married. Alice Brooks Davis, daughter of onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis; and Roger Makins, Second Secretary of the British Embassy in Washington; in Tallahassee, Fla.
Had he lived in the 18th Century, Poet Stephen Vincent Benét would almost certainly not have written in verse. Many a reader of his Pulitzer-Prizewinning poem, John Brown's Body, had an uneasy feeling that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader...