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Married. Dwight Filley Davis, 56, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War, onetime (1929-32) Governor General of the Philippines, donor of the famed Davis Cup; and Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin, 49, onetime Republican National Committeewoman, celebrated socialite Wet; in Manhattan. She is his second wife; he is her third husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Engaged. Pauline Morton Smith Sabm, 49 famed anti-Prohibitionist, and Dwight Filley Davis, 57, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War, donor of the international tennis trophy bearing his name, m Washington. Her second husband died in 1933, his first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup, Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 7, 1934 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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