Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blonde, 19-year-old Dorothy Davis is probably the most beautiful corporation president in the world. Her firm: Love, Inc., of Manhattan. Her commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up...
Philadelphia's rusty Mayor S. (for Sam) Davis Wilson loves to see his name in print -except on the soon-quashed indictment whose 49 counts last September charged him with misdoings in office. He has even had his name blazoned on the city's trash baskets. In 1936...
In 1927 shrewd old "F. A.," with Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton and Oil Tycoon Edgar B. Davis, formed Ohio Goodyear Securities Co., a personal holding company, one of whose assets was a big block of Goodyear Tire & Rubber common. Cyrus Eaton presently took this Goodyear stock and put it in...
What with depression, Seiberling Rubber still owed $2,350,000 in January 1937. But the banks by the terms of the indenture could not liquidate the U. S. Rubber collateral without first liquidating Seiberling Rubber Co. To stave off this threat, F. A. Seiberling arranged for Ohio Goodyear to take...
The quartet's diminutive first tenor, Brown, has quiet tastes, plays a little cooncan and setback, mostly just "cheers himself with his family." But stocky Bass Bryant, Second Tenor Davis and Baritone David secretly cherish ambitions to be movie stars. All used to be farmers. Last month Tenor Brown...