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...home cities of the Cabinet: Frank Billings Kellogg Minneapolis Andrew W. Mellon Pittsburgh Dwight Filley Davis St. Louis Curtis Dwight Wilbur Washington John G. Sargent Ludlow, Vt. Hubert Work Pueblo, Col William M. Jardine Manhattan, Kan Herbert Clark Hoover Stanford, Calif. James John Davis Pittsburgh Harry S. New Indianapolis...
...United States-is able to support an army of sufficient size, until the Administration is aroused to the real need, nothing can be done and we shall in the meantime continue to perish by degrees." When these words reached Washington, D. C., it happened that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order to General Summerall, his superior in rank, that...
Secretaries Dwight Filley Davis of War and Curtis Dwight Wilbur of the Navy, and most of their assistants; Attorney General Sargent; Commandant Hanson E. Ely of the Army War College, and 100 officers; Quartermaster-General B. Frank Cheatham; Commandant John A. Lejeune of the Marines, and many another military bigwig, stepped out of motors and trains at the head of Chesapeake Bay one fine morning last week and stuffed cotton or fingers in their ears. They and some 7,000 more or less distinguished civilians were promptly greeted by the cataclysmic detonation, the boiling smoke blast and the vanishing heaven...
Last week, after conferring with Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Army Engineers, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis told the President and the public that the five boards were rushing through "a two years' job in six months," would have their data ready for Congress "before it meets...
...Giver. In 1899, a potent young Harvard tennis player named Dwight Filley Davis donated a cup to be played for by tennis teams from all nations. Last week, at a dinner on the S. S. France, moored in the Hudson River, Mr. Davis, now U. S. Secretary of War, bade "a sad and long farewell" to his tennis cup, congratulated three Frenchmen on winning it from U. S. players who had kept it the past seven years...