Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First thing Mayor Bowron did was demand the resignations of the members of all the city's governing commissions from police to parks. Grandstanding District Attorney Buron Fitts then joined the graft hunt, impaneled a grand jury. First graft flushed was in the civil service examinations for promotions in...
Meantime, Police Chief Davis, a full-blooded strong man who liked to bait "communists" and to shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly...
Those ten hard years lay heavy in the thoughts of big, bashful Francis Breese Davis Jr. last week as he handed reporters a mimeographed announcement: for the first time since 1928 United States Rubber Co. has declared a dividend-4% on its 8% preferred. Since 1929, when Mr. Davis became...
Francis Davis was no rubber man when the Du Fonts put him in to run U. S. Rubber in January 1929. He had worked his way through Yale, become an engineer, built fabulous Hopewell, Va. for the Du Fonts in Wartime, and moved up to manage various Du Pont enterprises...
Trouble-shooter Davis could do nothing to stop the sickening fall of rubber from its 1925 high of $1.25 a pound to 2⅛? a pound in 1932, but he could do a little to lighten the effect of huge inventory losses on his company. He did it by slashing...