Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter members of the Loyal Order of Moose and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles complained to the New York World-Telegram that these organizations were running large lotteries with small prizes. Someone, it appeared, was making an unholy profit. The alert World-Telegram turned the complaints over to...
Senator Davis became director general of the Order of Moose in 1906 with a contract that gave him all initiation fees for his promotion work. The order's orphanage at Mooseheart, Ill. was his special charity. When he became Secretary of Labor in 1921, he talked Moose to all...
It was charged that $2.000.000 was collected on a Moose lottery, with $150,000 in prizes drawn Jan. 1 aboard the S. S. Priscilla in Long Island Sound. The Government claims evidence to prove that Senator Davis got more than $100,000 as his share of the proceeds.
IDA E. DAVIS Rochester, N. H.
* War's Good died (1929); Labor's Davis entered the Senate (1930); Treasury's Mellon became Ambassador to Great Britain (1932). Point Farms, plays among the sea islands off Georgia.