Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the biggest news was in Washington and, by a queer coincidence, it centered around three men all named Davis.
>The biggest crisis was a new coal strike, with 530,000 miners out of the pits. There shaggy, humane William Hammatt Davis, chairman of Franklin Roosevelt's War Labor Board, bore the pressure.
>An even greater crisis brewed in food. There Chester C. Davis, the new Food Czar, his good intentions thwarted by old mistakes and continuing delays, worked and warned, threatened and pleaded, debated whether to resign in self-defense or continue out of patriotism.
>In Congress, the old feud between the President and his legislative branch had flared into the kind of revolt that had sapped the nation's strength in two previous great wars. There Information Director Elmer Davis was a chief victim.
The Administration, with its fixed price ceilings and floors, had got itself into a jam. One proposal: requisitioning the corn now in elevators, at ceiling prices, and throwing it into the market. On this, Food Czar Chester Davis, conferring daily with corn growers, feeders and processors, was mum.