Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was in 1861, and the hero of the inauguration was Jefferson Davis. The ritual has changed not at all. If Lurleen Wallace, standing in the same spot as Davis and taking her gubernatorial oath on the same Bible, felt any sense of inadequacy about sounding the same shopworn theme...
Baker testified that on three occasions, in October and November, he had been handed envelopes containing money-presumably the disputed $99,600 -by executives of West Coast S & L companies. Each time, Baker insisted, he turned over the envelopes to Kerr. On one such occasion, Baker received two envelopes from...
Last week the Met revived Peter Grimes, and this time it was smooth sailing. Tenor Jon Vickers sang the title role with complete conviction; Director Tyrone Guthrie's staging was fittingly roughhewn and seafaring. But for most of the audience, the true center of interest was the Met debut...
Underlying Waves. No glamour boy on the podium, Davis guided the Met orchestra through Britten's surging score with the firm and unerring hand of a ship's captain riding out a sou'wester. His precise baton gave full play to the music's quick, dramatic...
Other California savings-and-loan executives testified that they had heeded Baker's formula for political activism. Stuart Davis, chairman of the board of Los Angeles' Great Western Financial Corp., related that in October 1962 he had toted $50,100 in cash in two envelopes to Washington-only...