Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Governor of Cochin-China, M. Krautheimer. Reason: the exquisite old Governor General of all French Indo-China, His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, was in Paris, France, complaining about all the trouble Communists have been making in his bailiwicks (TIME, March 23). But native Reds made at the Davises not even faces...
...doubles tennis score of two Davises, pere et fils, in defeating MM Claviez and Peysson, French Indo-China's champions, was 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial...
Bangkok, as Governor General Davis saw when he landed there, is a fine progressive city full of rice mills (80) and Buddhist temples (innumerable). Siamese officials were most cordial, but the Davises boarded the Pittsburgh and steamed...
Britain's Malay Might. At Singapore, most potent war base in the far east, the clanking, 26-year-old Pittsburgh was sirened and saluted by smart British fighting craft. If, during his three days in Singapore, Mr. Davis studied British colonial methods in the Malay States, he doubtless learned first...
Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Goodyear and United States Rubber?why are their major rubber plantations in Brazil, Liberia and the Dutch East Indies, rather than on U. S. colonial soil? Last week Mr. Davis found, presumably, the answer. The Dutch permit their natives to lease land to exploiters.