Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the Senate Republican conference, to fill the two Republican vacancies on the all-important Foreign Relations Committee, appointed New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose internationalist sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To...
Fun In Denver. The Army's shrewd tactics in Chicago were followed with similar unspectacular neatness in Ward stores in six other cities-Detroit, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), Jamaica (N.Y.), San Rafael (Calif.). In Detroit, which WLB Chairman William H. Davis had described as "explosive," union men gleefully...
Charles Dana Gibson's great appeal, as man and artist, was frankly romantic. The towering, blue-eyed illustrator was a notable lady's man. His drawings mainly concerned the trials & tribulations of love between incredibly handsome, well-bred young people (the man in his duets often resembled Gibson...
*Since the office was created in 1913, Secretary Perkins had only three competitors: the late William B. Wilson, Pennsylvania's James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, the late William N. Doak.
The 78th Congress made at least one reputation: Missouri's Harry Truman, with his plodding, earnest work on the Senate's war investigating committee, found himself skyrocketed into the Vice-Presidency of the U.S. But if history remembers the 78th, it will be more because of the colorful...