Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without offending anyone, yet his answer may open the way to further understanding and help set the stage for negotiators in whom authority is vested. If the U. S. loses its grip on Debts as a club to force Disarmament, the fault will lie with President Hoover and Norman Davis. Conversely, if Debt pressure brings down armaments, the great credit will be wholly theirs...
...which would help no public career before a catawauling Senate. Another outstanding possibility for Secretary of State is Newton Diehl Baker. But Mr. Baker's friends say he is reluctant to return to public life. A third, viewed expectantly by European statesmen who have dealt with him, is Norman Hezekiah Davis...
Democratic Morrow. Born (1878) and bred in Tennessee where he still lives at Tullahoma, Mr. Davis comes from a long line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
...committee organizing the proposed World Economic Conference. If the next President decides to scramble debts, disarmament and world trade all up in that parley he would have a long search for a Secretary of State so well trained by experience in the practicalities of such problems as Norman Davis. But perhaps Mr. Roosevelt will find him as Mr. Hoover has, even more useful without portfolio...
...Fred Spencer of Plainfield, N. J. and William ("Torchy") Peden of Vancouver. B. C.: one of the closest six-day bicycle races on record; by 14 points (for sprinting) from the teams of Norman Hill & William Grimm. Three other teams were in the tie for distance covered, 2,482 mi. and 9 laps. Month ago Peden and Jules Audy of Montreal who started the Manhattan race with Peden but was forced out by injuries after a fall, won a six-day race, in Chicago...