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Died. James John Davis, 74, Secretary of Labor (1921-30), Republican Senator from Pennsylvania (1930-45); of uremia and a heart ailment; in Takoma Park, Md. Handsome, handshaking, Welsh-born "Puddler Jim" was a helper in an iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted...
...many years-ever since "Puddler Jim" Davis took Dewey into the Labor Department-he has been bouncing back & forth between Washington, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, spreading balm. A onetime railroad telegrapher, 59-year-old Jim Dewey has become the government's ace mediator. His methods are simple: get 'em together, keep 'em cool, let 'em talk...
...Committee, appointed New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose internationalist sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To international-minded Senators, the new members were not much of an improvement over their predecessors: James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania and Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
...Since the office was created in 1913, Secretary Perkins had only three competitors: the late William B. Wilson, Pennsylvania's James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, the late William N. Doak...
...because of the colorful, noisy reputations that were lost. Texas' Red-baiting, ranting Representative Martin Dies decided he might as well not try for reelection. And the U.S. voters themselves decided that they could get along better without such famed isolationists as Gerald Nye. Ham Fish. Rufus Holman. "Puddler Jim" Davis and Bennett Champ Clark...