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...Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary...
...Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis LL.D...
Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis received a letter from Representative Rankin, Democrat from Mississippi. The Congressman first related that in the Robert E. Lee mansion at Arlington, Va., there hangs an autographed copy of a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll. This, said the Congressman, "is offensive to every decent, loyal, self-respecting individual from the South. . . an unusual and unnecessary desecration" of the Lee mansion...
...President that Congress was in session and ready to receive any communications which the President cared to submit. The President submitted: 1) his message to Congress, 2) his budget recommendations and 3) a long list of nominations for confirmation, at the head of which stood the name of Dwight Filley Davis to be Secretary...
...almost six months it had been expected; quidnuncs had talked of it confidently for many weeks; conservative correspondents had spoken of it with confidence for several days. So when it happened there was no surprise. John Wingate Weeks resigned as Secretary of War. Dwight Filley Davis, Assistant Secretary, was appointed to succeed him-becoming the second Davis in the present Cabinet,* and the second Davis to be U. S. Secretary...