Word: filley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stearns, intimate friend and adviser of the President. He looked inquiringly into the limpid water of the canal, sailed for Manhattan after a two-day visit. In the near distance, Vice President Dawes hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday...
...Dwight Filley Davis: "Tennis is the sport I love. In fact, I met my husband, donor of the famed Davis Cup, at a tennis tournament in Switzerland. In Washington we entertain frequently; some say I am the best dressed of the Cabinet wives...
...house of Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis there were dinner guests: the President and Mrs. Coolidge, President and Mrs. James R. Angell of Yale and more than a dozen others...
Last week Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, told the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army food rations were lower than those of convicts in Federal prisons. The soldier gets only one good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation...
...wake up in the middle of the night, fearful lest something terrible may be happening at our army posts," confessed Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis before the Women's National Republican Club in Manhattan last week. This was not the first time that "disgraceful housing conditions" in U. S. Army camps have been mentioned within the last six months...