Word: davision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis return to Washington from a six-weeks vacation he would not expect to be met at the station by the President and Mrs. Coolidge, the Cabinet, the entire Diplomatic Corps and the 100 highest ranking Army officers.
¶ President Coolidge appointed an emergency board-as provided for in the Watson-Parker (1926) railway labor law-to investigate the longstanding wage dispute between 47 western railroads and 70,000 railroad employes. The appointees: Lawyer James R. Garfield (Cleveland), Chief Justice Walter P. Stacey of the Supreme Court of...
The Navy played Davis-Elkins and lost its first game by a touchback, 0-2. "Pugh," shouted the supporters of Davis-Elkins after the game was over. They were not being rude to the young disappointed sailors but acclaiming the tough centre on their sturdy line.
R. C. A. declared that it needed 32 point-to-point stations at once, wanted the right to 67, would like 148 all told. Colonel Maton Davis, R. C. A. general counsel, was the spokesman. He had persuasive technical men fortify his case.
Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-born, came to this country at the age of twelve. Professor at Harvard Law School since 1914, he lectures brilliantly on such things as public utilities and federal jurisdiction. His remarkable memory for the very page number of obscure cases has confounded many a show-off law...