Word: davisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscountess Willingdon visited Harvard yesterday. After a luncheon with President and Mrs. Lowell, they were escorted on a tour around the University. On their visit to the Fogg Art Museum, they were entertained by several songs rendered by the University Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison...
Leaving the state of the Army to Major-General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, who reported conventionally that it was good, and the state of the air to Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, who reported energetically that it was good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred...
...American Hebrew Magazine (weekly) published a "Who's Who" of Jewry, based on achievements in 1927. Two non-Jews had the honor of being included-Dr. George Foot Moore of Harvard for his book Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for his gifts to Jewish causes. Jews & Jewesses saluted included: Sculptors Jo Davidson, Jacob Epstein, Max Kalisch; Aviation Promoters Daniel Guggenheim, Harry F. Guggenheim, Charles A. Levine; Benchers & Barristers Benjamin N. Cardozo, Arthur Garfield Hays Carolyn Fromberg Loeb, Joseph N. Proskauer, Samuel Untermyer; Civic Benefactors Albert M. Greenfield (Philadelphia), Albert...
Where do the sons of famed men go to school? Most people know that John Coolidge goes to Amherst. Fewer people would be able to state that the son of Andrew W. Mellon goes to Yale, as does the son of John Joseph Pershing. The sons of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. attend Princeton and Dartmouth. Last month a person who was watching lads at play at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N. Y., pointed to a dark faced, mop-headed, loud-shouting little chap. "Who may that be?" he enquired. "That," he was told, "is Alfredo Calles, son of Plutarco Elias...
Last summer Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. took three of their sons for a trip in Europe. One of the boys looked after all the funds; another looked after the baggage; the third ran errands. Each week each received a salary for his duties. Thus Mr. & Mrs. Rockefeller taught their sons integrity & responsibility, to pay for what they received, to receive what they paid...