Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roy Davis will not alter National Park's four-year preparatory curriculum, but plans to expand its junior college course, advertise it more extensively than ever. He favors plenty of bowling, swimming, gymnastics for his girls, regular parties for neighboring collegians, frequent excursions to Washington nine miles away. Says...
Although President Davis will head a new operating company formed to run the school, Widow Ament will retain control of National Park Seminary Co. which owns its "physical properties." These comprise a woodsy 200-acre campus with 44 buildings, including eight resident clubhouses built in the style of various nations...
The longest Davis Cup challenge-round singles set on record is the 17-15 one which red-haired Maurice McLoughlin won from Norman Brookes in 1914. Last week at Wimbledon, when another red-haired Californian, Donald Budge, played husky Charles Edgar Hare of England in the 1937 Davis Cup challenge...
They did better by winning both, clinching the Cup by 4 matches to 1. Parker, playing some of the surest tennis of his career, almost blasted Hare, wildly smashing and volleying, off the court (6-2, 6-4, 6-2). In what then amounted to an exhibition match, Donald Budge...
¶ Elected to that august senior society of Big Business, the board of directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was S, (for Samuel) Clay Williams, slow-spoken chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). A native Carolinian, Tobaccoman Williams once rendered what President Roosevelt called "devoted, impartial service" on...