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...Ewin Lamar Davis, 61-year-old brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis and Paul Davis, is the commission's most colorful member. Rated a thoroughgoing liberal, he grows apoplectic when anyone insinuates that his decisions might be swayed by the financial connections of his rich brother Paul. A fine speaker, he set a House record when he was a Tennessee Congressman (1919-33), having been allowed to keep the floor for four hours. although the rules impose a one-hour limit. Previously he set another record as a Federal Circuit judge, hearing 12,000 cases in eight...
...President: Stephen Bernard Gibbons of New York to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Herbert Jackson Drane of Florida to be a Federal power Commissioner; Conway P. Coe of Maryland to be Commissioner of Patents; Fred W. Johnson of Wyoming to be Commissioner of the General Land Office. Ewin Lamar Davis, Tennessee "lame duck," brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis, got a minor job as trade commissioner...
Democratic Morrow. Born (1878) and bred in Tennessee where he still lives at Tullahoma, Mr. Davis comes from a long line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
...ordered laid up "indefinitely" at a Hoboken pier. Of her 800 men, all but a skeleton crew were thrown out of work. International Mercantile Marine Co., half-owner of U. S. Lines, promised to try to place them on its other ships. Surprised by the company's action. Representative Ewin Lamar Davis, chair-man of the House Merchant Marine Committee, talked of an investigation of ocean mail contracts and construction loans under the Jones-White Law. What annoyed Congressman Davis was that the Leviathan should be laid up while White Star Line's Majestic continued in service. He pointed...
...Joseph Donovan and Henry Herrick Bond-lately formed a law firm in Washington. They called the partnership Donovan & Bond. It made a hole in the Treasury-the post Mr. Bond had occupied as Assistant Secretary. Last week President Hoover very neatly filled that hole by the appointment of Walter Ewin Hope, Manhattan lawyer. Princeton men throughout the land felt happier because their college had been accorded greater representation in official Washington by this "drafting" of one of their distinguished members...