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Eugene A. Gilmore, Vice Governor General of the Philippines under the late Major General Leonard Wood, will not soon be replaced as Acting Governor General. Said Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War: "There will be no haste to fill the vacancy. . . the vice governor is carrying on ably...
...Colonel C. B. Hodges, acting superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy, wrote to the State Department of Public Works forbidding the passage of the proposed highway. Promptly replied Colonel Frederick Stuart Greene, pointing out that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis has issued a permit for this highway back in October, 1926. But Colonel Hodges said that the permit was revoked and it appeared that Secretary Davis was ready to back him up-the New York Herald Tribune, indeed, printed a picture of the Secretary with the title "Guards West Point's organ...
Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
President Coolidge proclaimed that "the situation is indeed grave," appointed a special committee- Secretaries Hoover, Mellon, Wilbur and Dwight Filley Davis-to cooperate with the Red Cross, which called for a $5,000,000 flood relief fund...
...Dwight Filley Davis Jr., young son of the Secretary of War, was photographed leaping high above first base as a member of the Harvard freshman baseball nine...