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Alert, adaptable Roy Davis has had two separate and successful careers. He got his political start as a page to U. S. Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, continued it after taking a Ph.B. degree at Brown in 1910 as secretary to the commission in charge of building the Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Park to Davis | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

One day in 1927 or 1928, while I was chronicling the not-too-breath-taking affairs of the Isthmus on noisy Nelson Rounsevell's Panama American, there came to Panama City two Spanish boys in a battered Studebaker touring car. The chassis of the machine was set high on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Next in order was a review of five regiments at Fort Clayton, recently branded a "suicide post" by rambunctious Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American (TIME, Sept. 30). Following the review, the President pointedly wirelessed Major General Harold B. Fiske, commander of the Panama Canal Department who had sued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cigarets for Sharks' Teeth | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

A favorite boast of fiery Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American is that, in the course of eight arrests for libel, he has been cleared every time, at a total expenditure of $3.75.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moral Victory | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Fortnight ago the self-styled "rambler and gambler" found himself again in court on a charge of criminal libel. The charge: that an epidemic of suicides at a nearby Army post had led him to compare that post's commander to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler. By direction of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moral Victory | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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