Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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John Davis for his campaign expenditures
The long career of James John Davis as a Federal jobholder was punctuated last week by a 33-minute lapse into private citizenship. Resigning as Secretary of Labor, the Senator-elect from Pennsylvania was delayed that length of time at the Capitol while North Dakota's Senator Nye challenged...
Not until next day did the delayed credentials of New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow arrive so that the Senate's roster of 96 might be completed. After taking the oath of office, onetime Morgan-Partner Morrow politely declined an assignment to the potent Banking & Currency Committee lest...
† The precedent was not set but by another Davis. On March 4, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis stepped into Senate out of President Pierce's Cabinet, he was Secretary of War.
During the Civil War, the Confederates captured most of Jefferson Davis' dromedary herd. But Confederate Colonel Bethel Coopwood of Texas got 14 for himself, sent them over the line into Mexico. The rest were recaptured by the Federals, who in 1866 abandoned all camel experiments and offered the beasts...