Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Journal outfit cost Publisher Cox $1,943,685 in cold cash (for a 70% interest), plus an agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox...
For those who stayed tuned in during the war crisis, Then Came War: 1939, a MARCH OF TiMEstyle dramatization (with background by Commentator Elmer Davis) of the ten tumbled days that ushered in World War II, contains little new or startling. But for anyone who wants to keep Hitler'...
Last week it was a good guess that President Davis would have a good job for such a good executive. They met at N. A. M.'s Congress of Industry and had a good time together.
In the spring of 1928, rangy, left-handed John Hope Doeg, offshoot of California's famed tennis-playing Suttons, quit his studies at Stanford to tune up with the U. S. Davis Cup squad. Conservative President Sumner Hardy of the California Tennis Association huffed & puffed and finally howled that...
Last year the United States Lawn Tennis Association, embarrassed by European criticism of U. S. "shamateurism" and by U. S. gossip about "professional amateurs," decided to stop these abuses, announced that it intended to clarify and enforce during the 1939 season its moldy Expense Regulations and Eight Weeks Rule (no...