Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formerly headed by J. Raymond Walsh, ousted Harvard Economics instructor, the Cambridge Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, headed by the ousted Yale teacher, Jerome Davis, apparently represents public sentiment. Though agreeing with some of Mr. Conant's demands, it declared, in opposition, that the country needed...
A year ago Thomas Dewey, at the height of his campaign to bust the big racketeering trusts, descended upon Harlem with devastating effect, scaring the wits out of most of the bankers and collectors. Most of the busy executives of the industry left the city. Six months later Dixie Davis...
Warner scouts discovered him acting in the Pasadena Community Playhouse two years ago. After small parts in China clipper (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936) and a few minor films, he was cast as a boxer with Barton MacLane in a routine picture, first called Trial Horse, then Don't Pull...
Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were...
When Philadelphia's hard-bitten Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was prevented from spending $70,000,000 for a nitration plant, he angrily called the city's drinking water "filtered filth!" But when Dr. Haven Emerson, lanky, zealous Manhattan authority on public health, swooped into Philadelphia last week and...