Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost six months it had been expected; quidnuncs had talked of it confidently for many weeks; conservative correspondents had spoken of it with confidence for several days. So when it happened there was no surprise. John Wingate Weeks resigned as Secretary of War. Dwight Filley Davis, Assistant Secretary, was appointed to succeed him-becoming the second Davis in the present Cabinet,* and the second Davis to be U. S. Secretary...
...Dwight F. Davis, 46, the youngest member of the Cabinet, came out of the Middle West. He was graduated from Harvard in 1900. In those days he was a great tennis player, No. 2 on the U. S. list of singles players. He gave the Davis cup, which year by year has grown more famous, and in 1900 and 1901 he was on the team defending it. One of his contributions to tennis was the reverse twist service. But he went back to his native St. Louis and went into public life as a promoter of parks and playgrounds...
...According to the unanimous opinion of Army officers he is one of the great War Secretaries of modern time, ranking with Elihu Root. ... In spite of my own promotion, I sincerely share the universal regret at his resignation."-Dwight F. Davis...
...President's Aircraft Inquiry Board (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.), headed by Dwight W. Morrow, concluded its busy hearings last week. The list of men it heard was very long, the more important including: Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; Orville Wright; Admiral S. S. Robison, commanding the U. S. Fleet; Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff; Postmaster General New; General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service; Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired; Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz; Commander Richard E. Byrd just returned from the far north with MacMillan; Grover...
Following closely the appointment of Dwight F. Davis '00 as Secretary of War to succeed John W. Wecks, comes the announcement that the new Assistant Secretary of War is Colonel Hanford McNider '11. Colonel McNider left his home in Iowa immediately after receiving the news of his appointment, and will take his oath of office after his arrival in the Capitol...