Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President greeted cordially Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the first , overnight guest at White Pine Camp. (Senator Fess was the second). Mr. Davis and his host strolled about the grounds, then ambled down to Lake Osgood to inspect rods and lines and to practice casting. They discussed the possibility of moving the Curtis Bay (near Baltimore) and Raritan, N. J., arsenals to some relatively detached point (see Army and Navy...
...Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War, made a tentative contract with the Alabama Power Co. for the disposal of hydro-electric power at Muscle Shoals, to continue for 18 months or longer; approved of the use of Italian Carrara marble for the headstones to mark American soldiers' graves in overseas cemeteries, despite the protests of U. S. marble merchants whose bids were excessively high. F. Trubee Davison took oath of office as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; became acting Secretary of War when Secretary Davis and Assistant Secretary MacNider left Washington; flew over the Capital as his first...
...result of its investigations, a committee headed by Dwight W. Morrow made recommendations last December for more and better aviation-principally: 1) That peacetime activities be put under a Bureau of Air Navigation headed by an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce; that the U. S. Air Mail Service be extended, preferably by contract. 2) That an Assistant Secretary of War in charge of aviation be created; that a flying officer be placed on the general staff; that extra pay and insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken...
...Dwight Whitney Morrow, Morgan partner. Mr. Morrow is also an old friend (Amherst classmate) of Calvin Coolidge-was, perhaps, Mr. Coolidge's best friend among the great, before he became President. But, so far, Mr. Morrow has had no overt connection with the Administration, except to tackle the thankless thorny job of aviation investigation. And his influence upon Mr. Coolidge's appointments has been conspicuously negligible-much too negligible in many people's opinion...
Wall Street has its candidates- Nathan L. Miller, Dwight W. Morrow, James Augustine Farrell. Mr. Farrell, president of the Corporation since 1911, is the keystone of its organization, the pivotal point between the executive committee and the subsidiaries. He, a great steelmaker and foreign trader, could scarcely be spared from his duties. Mr. Morrow, lawyer and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., is more available. Everyone knows that U. S. Steel continues to be an Morgan industry. Mr. Morrow is the astute friend of presidents (he is almost the chum of President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President...