Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chester Davis quickly requisitioned for the refineries, at the ceiling price, the corn now stored in 96 Midwestern elevators (estimated stock: 12 million bushels). But even this drastic maneuver would not tide the plants over more than two or three weeks.
U.S. Food Administrator Chester Davis resigned this week for lack of authority.
Chester Davis resigned in Washington, where there is authority aplenty, but no one knows to whom it belongs and who should exercise it.
Davis Out. This week Food Administrator Chester Davis, who had not wanted the job in the first place, resigned after three months of manful struggle. He had offered his resignation on June 16, in a letter in which he asked for an appointment with the President. He got no reply...
Into this situation came the third U.S. Food Administrator in four months - Judge Marvin Jones, smooth, bland, quiet ex-Congressman from Texas, who left the bench six months ago to aid Czar of Czars Jimmy Byrnes. He took time out to preside over the international food conference at Hot Springs...