Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the President Cleveland docked, therefore, 10,000 curious and excited Filipinos turned out on their best behavior to welcome "Eyes & Ears." Governor General Dwight Filley Davis had proclaimed a national holiday. With Vice Governor General George Butte, he was at the pier to welcome his superior. As the Secretary...
In the jist Congress a variety of sniping proposals was advanced by the Philippine independence bloc. One was that sugar imports should be limited. Another was that Filipino immigration to the U. S. should be sharply restricted. A third was that the islands should be put under the coastwise shipping...
"There are more people starving for love and companionship than there are starving for bread," red-inked the American Friendship Society of Detroit, which offered "ABSOLUTELY FREE" lists of wealthy widows to anybody who had the price of a two-cent stamp. In four years the "society" had collected more...
Antiseptics. The whole philosophy of antiseptics was contained in a few words read by Herbert Clifton Hamilton, pharmacologist of Parke, Davis & Co.: "No one antiseptic will kill all kinds of germs. For example, the tetanus germ, which causes lockjaw, can be put into pure carbolic acid and remain in perfect...
Panama Bay. Then he went to U. S. Minister Roy Tasco Davis, had a diplomatic passport made out for himself & fish, with pictures of all three. The passport requested that "all skeptics into whose hands these presents shall come give full credence to the tales Senor Richey may tell. . . ." Publisher...