Word: davision
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Counsel for Mr. Morgan. Slowly, John W. Davis of West Virginia and New York began to pull ahead of the other also-rans, until William Jennings Bryan, den mother of the Democrats, cast aside his palmetto fan and rose to denounce Davis as the advocate of Wall Street. Next day...
It was as far as he ever got. The farm and labor voters decamped to Robert La Follette's Progressives. Bryan remained lukewarmly loyal to the party (his brother, Nebraska's Governor Charles W. Bryan, was the Democratic nominee for Vice President). And, for all his urbanity and...
He rarely caught the public eye again. In 1953, as the attorney for the state of South Carolina, he defended segregation in the schools of the South (TIME, Dec. 21, 1953). Last year he came to the aid of J. Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A...
*Davis' death leaves four surviving candidates of major parties who unsuccessfully ran for the presidency: Republicans Alf Landon, 67 (1936), and Thomas E. Devvey, 53 (1944 and 1948); and Democrats James M. Cox, 85 (1920), and Adlai E. Stevenson, 55 (1952).
Died. John William Davis, 81, dean of U.S. corporation and constitutional lawyers and onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President; of pneumonia; in Charleston, S.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).