Word: filley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Correspondents agreed that his probable successor is Acting Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, able son of Missouri...
...Weeks, recovering from a severe illness, abides and probably will abide for some time at his home in Massachusetts, while Acting Secretary Dwight Filley Davis carries on his duties in Washington...
...Dwight Filley Davis, Acting Secretary of War, wrote to the Mayor of New York City, demanded that the city hasten its construction of planned incineration plants so that it may cease to trouble the great sea - and New Jersey-with its offal...
...April 23, the members of the University crews will be the guests of Mr. O. D. Filley '06, the representative from New York on the rowing committee, at a dinner in Bernardville, N. J. Mr. Filley rowed on the University crew in 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906. He also played on the football team...
...Federal Government was present. The Government is interested in mechanical piatters. Only a few years ago, war turned the entire Government into a great mechanic. Now for both war and peace aims, the Government keeps in touch with mechanical progress. So its liaison officer, Assistant Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the man whose special function it is to foresee and mechanically to forearm for war, was on hand to open the session on National Defense. He set forth the two basic ideas of the War Department: 1) industrial preparedness as assurance against war; 2) the apportionment of its burdens...