Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a balky bus. the Disarmament Conference moves fitfully. It took a tremendous leap forward last week when diplomats in Rome agreed to a revised version of Benito Mussolini's Four-Power Pact, when U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis pledged a mild degree of U. S...
Appointed. Watson Davis, 37, to be managing director of Science Service, organization which the late Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps subsidized to popularize science. The late Edward Emery Slosson managed Science Service from its founding in 1921 to his death in 1929. Mr. Davis had been editor of Science Service publications...
Banker Morgan's inquisitor was swarthy Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Committee. At his side, prompting him continuously, was his own chief counsel, courtly, white-crowned John William Davis, onetime Democratic nominee for President. Ranged about the room were various of the 20 Morgan partners, Thomas W. Lamont...
With a look of astonishment the witness replied: "Private banker." The audience tittered appreciatively. Then began in earnest the questioning, questions which soon led to objections by Mr. Davis and heated protests by Virginia's peppery little Senator Carter Glass that Mr. Pecora was unduly "badgering" Mr. Morgan.
The first conflict came when Mr. Pecora tried to spread on the record one more subject of intense curiosity, the articles of copartnership in the House of Morgan, showing exactly how responsibility and profits are divided. Mr. Davis insisted the articles were "strictly private." The issue was dropped for the...