Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The shape of the order was nearly determined at week's end. The President planned to establish a new Economic Stabilization Board: Price Boss Leon Henderson, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, War Labor Board Chairman William H. Davis, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner...
> Adolf Hitler, on the war's third anniversary, hinted that Japan would soon attack Russia. In How War Came, published last week, Reporters Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley report that in the Tripartite Pact Japan promised Germany to attack Siberia when the German Army reached the Volga.
The night of August 17, when the Marines landed on Makin Island, was dark and rainy. The surf was high. Captain James N. M. Davis of Evanston, Ill. lost his pants in the waves. Major James Roosevelt of Washington, second in command to Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, cut his...
They Wanted Prisoners. The chief of the islanders gave pantsless Captain Davis a sarong. Other natives ignored the Japanese fire, plied the Marines with coconuts and coconut juice, told them where the Japs were concentrated. Three times during the day Jap bombers came over, did more harm to their own...
Meanwhile in Washington dissatisfaction with the posters program led to coordination of all Government posters under Elmer Davis' Office of War Information. Heading a new Graphics Division is Francis E. ("Hank") Brennan, former Art editor of FORTUNE. Last week Poster-man Brennan, busy formulating his plans, was definite on...