Word: filley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, on his way to St. Louis to talk with Colonel Lindbergh, said: "Lindbergh has performed feats of vast consequence to our nation. . . . But his task is finished. There is no need for him further to expose himself to the dangers that manifestly lurk in his path...
...from Ludlow, Vt., recovered at last from long illness. President and Mrs. Coolidge went to the Sargents' for a dinner which was a friends' reunion as well as the fourth function of a regular series conducted in wintertime by Cabinet members. Secretaries Kellogg, Mellon and Dwight Filley Davis had already performed their duties in this respect. Secretary Work's dinner was scheduled next. C. At the White House, the third state dinner of the season, for the Judiciary, passed off brightly. Chief Justice Taft of the Supreme Court twinkled and chuckled as guest of honor. Three...
They meant not only that he was filling well the sub-Cabinet post that fell to him when Dwight Filley Davis was promoted in 1925 but that he had a good banking business back home, as much vitality as ambition, a hard head, and a multitude of friends everywhere (in 1922-23 he commanded the American Legion). The sum of these is political potency. When he resigned his post last week there instantly was talk about Col. Hanford MacNider's running for Senator from Iowa next autumn. In Iowa, he was even mentioned for the Vice Presidency...
Then U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis made a speech. Excerpts...
...buried who fought and died at Vicksburg, Miss. Where the Confederate Army made its greatest stand, now stands a National Military Park. There was nothing really paradoxical about last week's ceremony at Vicksburg when Major General Frank B. Cheatham, U. S. A., representing Secretary. of War Dwight Filley Davis, accepted for the Federal Government a memorial statue of the president and commander-in-chief of the Confederacy which tried to overthrow that Government, Jefferson Davis...