Word: davison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death came last week to Europe's greatest trader and trafficker in Sleep-Davison Dalziel, 74, Baron Dalziel of Wooler. From Finland's icy mountains to Egypt's torrid sands, tired travelers snore peacefully, each night, in the sleeping cars of the great company of which he was president-La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens.† Moreover Baron Dalziel was, up to the moment of his death in London last week, chairman of the British Pullman Car Co.-pioneers of such luxury services as the Pullman-Golden Arrow route between London...
...young man Davison Dalziel showed journalistic promise which took him out to China and later on to California, where he founded the San Francisco Daily Mail. Subsequently he progressed eastward to Manhattan and finally to London, where he gradually branched out into railroading, and finally became associated with the great international firm of Wagon-Lits. The climax of his career came only a few months ago, when, by the stupendous merger (TIME, Feb. 20) Wagon-Lits absorbed the far flung firm of Thomas Cook...
...University Glee Club will present a concert under the direction of Professor A. T. Davison '06 on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in Paine Hall of the Music Building...
...serious music was hooted down as futile, and even worse, as unfitting. Unpleasantness was bound to result; the self-imposed ostracism of the University Glee Club from the intercollegiate organization brought more accusations of snobbishness; but the ideal was chosen, the standard set, and for better or worse Doctor Davison led his group on its unique...
...past shows no little success, and the future augurs well. The colleges, and through them much of America are growing up to good music. Inevitably they must strike false notes as they move, but still they progress, and their pace has been considerably accelerated by such undertakings as Doctor Davison...