Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But on the general food situation, Chester Davis spoke out. Said he: "Less has been done in this country [on management of civilian food] than on any other important factor in the war picture. . . . No matter how much food our farmers produce, no matter how good the weather, or how...
One by one the House ripped up the requests, or saddled the appropriations with crippling amendments. In one long, fierce, exhausting session the House made a shambles of the Administration's whole subsidy and price-control program, wiped out the domestic bureau of Elmer Davis' OWI and the...
The Young Turks. But the slaps at "Uncle Freddie" Delano and Elmer Davis were small acts in a big show. On OPA's request for $177,000,000, the House first cut the appropriation by 26%, then wrote in a series of straightjacket amendments. Most drastic: 1) No one...
In his battle against WLB, John Lewis has used a double-barreled barrage: insult the board (especially Chairman William H. Davis); ignore its decisions.
A year and a half later NBC hired Kaltenborn away from CBS - which by that time had grown weary of his ex-cathedral tone, had acquired the dry, reassuring voice of Elmer Davis, and was plugging him hard.