Word: davision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a prominent corporation lawyer was barred from ever again practicing in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. His name was Louis Samter Levy. For 37 years sharp, shrewd, able Louis Levy has practiced law in New York. For most of these years he...
To manage its team, Philadelphia dug up Harry Davis, onetime captain of the Philadelphia Athletics. Cincinnati got Bubbles Hargrave, National League batting champion in 1926. New York has Moose McCormick, old Giant pinch hitter, and Chicago has Brick Owens, longtime American League umpire. Most famed of the circuit's...
The South's Confederate heroes were military leaders-Lee, Jeb Stuart, Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson-not Jeff Davis and his Cabinet. The first full-length study of the Confederate Cabinet, Statesmen of the Lost Cause, is by a Yankee. Pulitzer Prize Biographer Hendrick (The Life and Letters of Walter H...
Significant to Author Hendrick is the fact that the South's Civil War statesmen represented the "new men" of the cotton belt, not the aristocracy of the Old South. Jeff Davis was born in a log cabin 120 miles from Lincoln's slightly smaller birthplace. Vice President Stephens...
Jeff Davis, sickly, handsome, humorless, egocentric, unimaginative, contrasted almost as sharply with Lee as with Lincoln. Almost kicked out of West Point, where he was 23rd in a class of 33, he considered himself a military genius. At West Point too began his bitter feud with Joseph E. Johnston. Cause...