Word: filley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis Cup, an elaborate silver bowl and tray, is now so completely covered with names of winners that where to put this year's will be a puzzle. It was put up for competition in 1900 by onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis. Last week, Dwight Davis Jr., the donor's son, was beaten 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 by an unseeded player named Frederic Gaskell in the quarter finals of the Suffolk County, N. Y., singles championship...
Married. Alice Brooks Davis, daughter of onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis; and Roger Makins, Second Secretary of the British Embassy in Washington; in Tallahassee...
Engaged. Dwight Filley Davis Jr., 26, only son of the onetime Governor General of the Philippine Islands, Coolidge Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (tennis); and Dorothea E. Gay, 22, Manhattan socialite, niece of Painter Walter...
...awarded: The Reagent's Cup for the winner of the service singles: the Manager's Challenge Cup to the winner of the Senior singles: the Carroll Challenge Cup for the Carroll Cup Race for singles; the Beacon challenge Cup for Junior Freshman eights and class eights: and the Filley Challenge Cup for Junior eights. All cups are competed for annually. Medals will also be awarded to winners of all events...
Frank Billings Kellogg, his Secretary of State, heard about it at Des Moines on his way to California. Andrew William Mellon, his Secretary of the Treasury, found it hard to believe the news as the S. S. Majestic carried him back to his Ambassadorial post at London. Dwight Filley Davis, his Secretary of War, was at Tallahassee. John Garibaldi Sargent, his Attorney General, was recovering from influenza at his Ludlow, Vt. home. Frank Stearns, his closest personal friend, the man who picked him for President long before the Boston police strike, was so overcome with grief in Boston that...