Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What did the funny squiggles (see cut) mean? wondered the audience. Did the up-&-down strokes represent the music going up & down? Said a note on the program: "The cover represents an artist's earnest experiment in translating into line drawing the equivalent of a response to music. . . . The...
Business Done. The House of Deputies reelected Dr. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate and rector of Washington's Epiphany Church, to be its president; Dr. Carroll Melvin Davis of New York, domestic secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, to be secretary.
L. Ames Brown, handsome Southern newsman, resigned as president of the advertising house of Lord 6 Thomas and Logan, Inc. (American Tobacco. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, California Fruit Growers Exchange, General Electric). Succeeding Mr. Brown is another Wartime U. S. Ship ping Board protege of Albert Davis Lasker, L. & T. and...
Few people are still unaware that in many cities hoodlums extort tribute from laundries. If the tribute is not paid, the laundryman may find his truck smashed, his customers' clothes ruined, his driver's pate cracked. Apparently this unwholesome state of affairs only recently came to the attention...
Last Shot. On the other hand, Playwright Davis wrote Icebound, the Pulitzer Prize-winner for 1923.