Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, 73, veteran roving columnist of the New York Sun (Bob Davis Reveals), expert amateur photographer, famed helping-hand-to-struggling-authors, tireless writer of reminiscences; in Montreal. Amiable, gregarious, easygoing, prolix, he had been drifting pleasantly around the globe writing casual thrice-weekly pieces for...
Before Pearl Harbor Sherwood began to assemble his branch under the auspices of the Coordinator of Information, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Dorfovan. Last June the organization was transferred in toto to Elmer Davis' OWI. Now swollen to 1,800 employes, it has a high command in Washington, a...
So Donald Derby Davis gave up a plan for duck hunting in Canada and flew to Washington to begin struggling with the most difficult problems that plague a Washington newcomer-telephones and secretaries-bolstering his morale the while with the cheerless thought that "you cannot ignore such a call."
A somewhat platitudinous manner (his favorite clichés are "let's walk around that idea" and "facts-not opinions") is apt to mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan...
What Donald Davis does from now on is almost a sky's-the-limit proposition. His potential job is to make one big war-winning whole out of the individual production demands of Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW and civilian supply. Now when he says "let'...