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Died. Norman Hezekiah Davis, 65, national chairman of the American Red Cross, onetime U.S. Ambassador-at-Large; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hot Springs, Va. At 39, he had made $1,000,000 in Cuban banking and Cuban sugar, retired to devote himself to public service. His financial, diplomatic and organizational talents were enlisted by four Presidents. Of him fellow-Tennessean Cordell Hull said: "Few persons have had the privilege of rendering to their country and to other countries such a full measure of useful service...
...response was that the President's appeal in January was soon blanketed by subsequent world headlines. Another reason was that the chairmanship of the Red Cross has been vacant since the death of Admiral Grayson. Last week President Roosevelt persuaded his grey and graceful Ambassador-at-Large, Norman Hezekiah Davis, to take the vacant post...
...mobility in conducting British foreign policy. Technically he will still be subordinate to Mr. Eden, advising the Foreign Secretary only on request, but the terms of the new appointment show that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intends to use Sir Robert much as President Roosevelt uses Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to, handle big diplomatic jobs wherever they crop...
Last spring amid the magnificence of the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office in London, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis achieved a signal triumph in international relations. He got 21 other nations to join with the U. S. in signing a pact controlling world sugar production for five years (TIME, May 10). Last week the U.S. Senate ratified the pact and simultaneously the Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced 1938 quotas for U. S. sugar imports and production. U. S. sugarmen found the former event more pleasing than the latter...
Infinitely patient U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, President Roosevelt's representative at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Nov. 22 et ante), stood deserted last week by the chief delegates of Britain, France and Russia. They had returned to their capitals, leaving second-stringers at Brussels, and leaving Ambassador Davis to keep his temper while the windup of the conference gave the Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opportunity to say that Rome "has deemed this conference entirely superfluous from the very beginning and has had no reason since to change its mind...