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...elder Davison, who served as head of the Red Cross during the War, had novel ideas about a public career for his son. He believed that he should go into politics, starting at the bottom and working up, giving generously of himself for the public good, but not depending on his job for a livelihood. His father's will left $4,500,000 as an endowment for Trubee's public career...
Dutifully Trubee Davison studied law at Columbia, allied himself as a lowly worker with the local Republican machine. He attended the 1920 national convention to watch the big wheels turn. He became secretary to Charles Dewey Hilles, New York's National Committeeman. When Theodore Roosevelt Jr. quit the Assembly in 1921 to go to Washington, Trubee Davison got himself elected to the vacancy. His colleagues found him easy, democratic, willing to work. He was made chairman of the committee on taxation. He kept his bailiwick?the fashionable North Shore of Long Island?friendly and peaceful. Its biggest annual political event...
...when President Coolidge was empowered by Congress to appoint an Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation as a result of the investigation into the air services conducted by Morgan Partner Dwight Whitney Morrow, the summoning of Trubee Davison from the New York legislature was almost a matter of course...
...Assistant Secretary threw himself into his work at Washington. He chummed around with the flying officers, piloted his own plane hither & yon, brought the Army air service up to top-notch efficiency under the five-year plane-building program. When Trubee Davison's college friend and fellow flyer, David Sinton Ingalls, arrived in Washington as President Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, there was the spectacle of two able, active young friends competing for Congressional appropriations...
...nomination for Governor of Ohio ( TIME, May 23). Last week there was much speculation as to where President Hoover stands on the New York Republican nomination for Governor. Officially the President's attitude was one of intense neutrality. Colonel Donovan had been his friend and active supporter. Assistant Secretary Davison was a member of Mr. Hoover's official family. Either nomination would have all the power of Republican Washington behind...