Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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At the last minute a hitch in Mr. Doak's appointment developed. James John Davis, "for sentimental reasons," had wished to terminate his ten years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate...
Labor. Secretary James John Davis, preparing last week to surrender his office to a successor, might be pardoned a sentence or two in retrospect. He began: "From 1921 to 1930 it has been my privilege to have served . . . under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, during a most important period in...
At precisely noon on Dec. 1, Vice President Curtis mounted the rostrum in the Senate chamber at Washington. Beneath him Senators were milling about, handshaking, ready after five months of vacation to take up the Nation's business again. All the Senators-elect (Hastings, Bulkley, McGill, Brock, Carey, Williamson...
Everyone knows that Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States. Few recall that previously he was Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Franklin Pierce. Few Northerners realize he was an active visionary, a man unafraid to try to make his dreams come true. Still fewer people now...
Secretary of War Davis was fascinated by what he heard of the great deserts in New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. In 1853, stagecoach lines or the Pony Express had not yet followed the covered wagons of the Gold Rush. There were Indians in the desert lands, Indians whom the...