Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene A. Gilmore, Vice Governor General of the Philippines under the late Major General Leonard Wood, will not soon be replaced as Acting Governor General. Said Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War: "There will be no haste to fill the vacancy. . . the vice governor is carrying on ably...
...More notable than any, came Dwight W. Morrow, the President's classmate and close friend, potent Morgan partner and unseen influence in the G. 0. P. Mr. Morrow represented the politically bewildered East and high finance. Newsgatherers waited eagerly for Mr. Morrow to come away after interviews at which it was certain there would have been give and take on the renowned Coolidge "choice" for 1928. But Mr. Morrow came forth in owlish silence, boarded a train for his ranch in Idaho, left the world none the wiser...
...heard no authoritative Amherst voice sound forth to deny that, a "good" man having just been found, a "great" man might almost immediately displant him. But solace for President Pease, if he needed any, lay in the fact that one of his staunchest friends and promoters was Amherst Trustee Dwight W. Morrow, staunch friend and promoter, politically, and also classmate, of President Coolidge...
...Colonel C. B. Hodges, acting superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy, wrote to the State Department of Public Works forbidding the passage of the proposed highway. Promptly replied Colonel Frederick Stuart Greene, pointing out that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis has issued a permit for this highway back in October, 1926. But Colonel Hodges said that the permit was revoked and it appeared that Secretary Davis was ready to back him up-the New York Herald Tribune, indeed, printed a picture of the Secretary with the title "Guards West Point's organ...
...Brother of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur...