Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually Nurse Toppan's victims were her patients, but she had a habit of giving them less-than-lethal doses to prolong their illnesses if she liked working for them. One day in 1901, her old friend Mrs. Alden P. Davis came to visit her, died in convulsions after...
Tom Dewey insisted that the State had no "star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and...
Senator Donahey, consenting, furnished Accountant Conick with the same powers of access to TVA records and witnesses as the committee's other experts. As private utilitarians cheered this new guarantee of an ice-cold view of TVA, Senator Davis publicly declared:
Evidently stirred by Senator Davis' activity, Chairman Donahey traveled at week's end to Washington to ask President Roosevelt for more money for the committee, so that it can audit TVA thoroughly itself. Senator Donahey's own checker-upper will be W. O. Heffernan, now the committee...
¶ Sick and tired, Philadelphia's Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson announced he would presently take a two-month vacation. Instantly, the Philadelphia Inquirer accused him of making a deal with the Democrats to turn over his office to Controller Robert C. White, Democrat, during the fall election period...