Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four scholarship holders have been named in the Harvard Law School; three for the Sidney Thompson Fairchild Scholarships, a fourth for the Reuben B. Hutchcraft Memorial Scholarship. The holders are Nathan Davis, of Arlington, New Jersey; Joseph V. Crockett, Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee; and William M. Marvel '30, of West...
TIME usually well-informed makes two erroneous statements in its report of the Las Vegas, Nev. Boulder Dam celebration. In your issue of Sept. 29 you quote Secretary Wilbur saying, "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer who really started this greatest project of all...
From 1923 to 1925 Bettor Shouse lost $22,458 by picking slow horses at Maryland and Kentucky race tracks. Race horses he owned in partnership cost him another $6,273. In 1924 he dropped $1,750 by wagering that John William Davis, Democratic nominee for President, would carry Maryland.*
Mr. Shouse's contention had been that, if Democrat Davis had carried Maryland, he (Shouse) would have been taxed on his won bet. The arch-Democratic New York World observed: "Ah, now we have it! Mr. Shouse, of course, bet on the Democratic candidate. How could a Republican Treasury Department...
* The 1924 Maryland vote: Coolidge, 162,414; Davis, 148,072; La Follette, 47,157.