Word: davises
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Georgia Davis Siloam Springs, Ark.
Family Pact. The struggle pits Hughes' first cousin, Houston Lawyer William Rice Lummis (pronounced Lumm-us), 48, against Chester Davis, 66, the Wall Street in-fighter who in 1973 finally won the twelve-year TWA antitrust suit for Hughes and became a major power within Summa. At stake is...
Initially, Davis and Lummis appeared to be working together smoothly. Only a day after Hughes died, Davis sought out Lummis in Houston. Rather than battle the family, Davis suggested that Lummis become temporary sole stockholder of the estate, and that he join the Summa board. In August 1976, Lummis became...
No Means. At a tense Summa board meeting on May 18, Davis led the directors in voting down every one of Lummis' proposals. Lummis got angry. At a May 26 meeting, he kicked Davis off the board, though Davis remains general counsel ("One thing at a time," explains a...
Nearby residents learned about the escape in the time-honored way: the siren began to wail. But with the phones out, Assistant Warden Clayton Davis had to send a man those six miles by car to report the escape to the sheriff in Wartburg. Capturing the wounded prisoner Ward was...