Word: davisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama, where Peace-Dove Lindbergh sprinkled goodwill three months ago, the War Department's two chief eagles-Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison and Major-General James E. Fechet, Chief of Army Air Corps-last month flew to inspect the Canal's defenses...
Said Secretary Davison: "You can look at maps until the cows come home, but ... we came down here expressly for the purpose of seeing...
Nevertheless, Eagles Davison and Fechet recommended doubling Panama's air defenses. Perhaps to hasten the passage of appropriations, they abandoned their plan to fly home along Peace-Dove Lindbergh's route through the Antilles. They returned as they had gone down, in long hops of their Loening amphibians to Managua, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Brownsville, Washington...
...late Henry Pomeroy Davison founded the Bankers Trust in 1903. He was then the energetic and radiant vice president of the First National Bank in Manhattan and the friend of many an important personage of Wall Street. When he gave a dinner it was well attended. At one such dinner he presented his idea of a trust company that would not compete for business with commercial banks; but would act as the fiduciary agent for state and national banks throughout the country, and would accept as deposits the reserve funds of other banks...
...idea was good; the trust company was formed with the liveliest and most aggressive young men of New York's financial district on its board of directors. Mr. Davison's banking sagacity and charm had brought them together. He acted as their chairman; Edmund C. Converse of the Liberty National Bank, where ten years before Davison had himself got his first important Manhattan banking job, went to the Bankers Trust as president. Thomas W. Lament was secretary & treasurer...