Word: davises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Kingpins. The day after their indictment and speedy arrest, six of the kingpin Commies went into court in New York City, put up $30,000 in Treasury bonds for bail and walked jauntily out (see cut). They were old (67), ailing William Z. Foster, a radical for almost 50...
Ben Davis was the first Negro ever commissioned from the ranks of the U.S. Army. A tightlipped, light-skinned man, he left Howard University for a temporary first lieutenancy during the Spanish-American War. When it ended, he signed on as a private, fought his way up to sergeant, ranked...
As one of only half a dozen Negro officers in the Army, his choice of assignments was strictly limited. He taught military science at Negro colleges, served as military attache in Liberia. He spent World War I sidetracked in the Philippines. But Davis took soldierly satisfaction in doing any job...
Like a mail-order catalogue, the show had a little of everything-from the sharp literalness of an Edward Hopper Civil War scene, to a tangled, crisscross abstraction by Mark Tobey. There were the sanitary surfaces of Georgia O'Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street...
Other stories still make exciting reading. Richard Harding Davis gives a clean, dramatic report of a Cuban revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across...