Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a flying visit and a peek behind the strict censorship, tightened when Vargas took over absolute power with a new constitution two months ago (TIME, Nov. 22), Author Davis reported: "The present regime in Brazil is the stark, unabashed personal dictatorship by Getulio Vargas, the President. . . . The secret of...
"It must not be supposed that Vargas personally is not attractive." concluded Dr. Davis, "and a man of extraordinary political ability. . . ."
It's Love I'm After (Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Eric Blore; TIME, Nov. 22).
Died. Albert F. Houghton, 87, retired publisher (Houghton Mifflin Co.) who turned out books by John Burroughs, William Dean Howells, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Francis Bret Harte, Richard Harding Davis; of heart complications following an illness; in Manhattan.
Last spring amid the magnificence of the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office in London, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis achieved a signal triumph in international relations. He got 21 other nations to join with the U. S. in signing a pact controlling world sugar production...