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Word: davises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The first part of this prediction had now come true. Following the death of his son-in-law, David R. Coker, whose large affairs in South Carolina needed overseeing, kindly, seam-faced Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper's resignation was at last announced. Instantly a Big Business chorus arose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Second Stocking | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Gallant lost causes leave sad aftermaths, and one of the saddest is the plight of the broken leaders. London last week was the temporary refuge of a Robert E. Lee and a Jefferson Davis of the late Republic of Czechoslovakia. They are Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk, two men who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Lee and Davis | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

No steady job was found for Jeff Davis, and none has yet been found for Jan Masaryk, for 15 years Czechoslovakia's Minister to Great Britain and the strongest pleader for his country in western Europe. The Nazi tied government of his homeland is now busy tearing down statues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Lee and Davis | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Less intricate to anybody but a bookkeeper was the thorough house-cleaning he gave the company. His first move was to let his employes ride with him in the elevator; his predecessor, Charles B. Seger, had risen to his office in solitary splendor. Mr. Davis told his men to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Rubber Hero | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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