Word: davises
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Bolivar County lies down on the rich delta lands of Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Arkansas River. In 1887, when the track of what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, Bolivar's rich bottomlands were an uninhabited jungle. The railroad, eager for customers along...
The Seamen's Handbook is published by the American Merchant Marine Library Assn., which also sends magazines and books to men at sea. It is financed by Mrs. Howard, president of the association, and others including Paul D. Cravath, William Mellon, Clark H. Minor, Arthur V. Davis, Dr. Thomas...
Ewin Lamar Davis, 61-year-old brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis and Paul Davis, is the commission's most colorful member. Rated a thoroughgoing liberal, he grows apoplectic when anyone insinuates that his decisions might be swayed by the financial connections of his rich brother Paul...
A ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir...
In his high-ceilinged office-auditorium one morning last week sat Philadelphia's Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson. Overhead whirred the mayor's huge electric fans. Before the mayor sat between 300 and 400 indignant Philadelphians conscious that right was on their side. A young lawyer named Robert Dechert...