Davis, Elmer Holmes (1890–1958)

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36-41	July 1976 Article The presidents we deserve By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
48	July 1976 Article Votes for emptiness By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Political candidates; Political parties PDF IMAGES
36-41	July 1976 Article The presidents we deserve By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
48	July 1976 Article Votes for emptiness By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Political candidates; Political parties PDF IMAGES
23-30	August 1953 Article Are we worth saving? And if so, why? By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Toynbee, Arnold Joseph; Civilization, Greco-Roman; Civilization, Western; Comparative civilization; East and West; Spengler, Oswald; Views on western civilization PDF IMAGES
28-31	July 1953 Article Grandeurs and miseries of old age By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Aged; Aging PDF IMAGES
66-73	June 1952 Article Vox populi and foreign policy By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Cold War; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
23-29	March 1951 Article The crusade against Acheson By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Hiss, Alger; Anti-communist movements; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Career as U.S. senator; Acheson, Dean; Diplomatic and consular service, American; East Asia; McCarthy, Joseph; 1945-1953; 1949-; Proceedings; Trials, litigation, etc.; United Nations. General Assembly; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
161-172	October 1950 Article Constant reader: Illustrations from earlier issues of Harper's By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
23-30	January 1949 Article What are wars for? Or, how not to do it next time By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Military policy; 1945-1953 PDF IMAGES
25-33	September 1948 Article President Dewey's strange bedfellows By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career in politics; 1945-1953; 1948-; The Republican Party; Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund) PDF IMAGES
21-29	January 1947 Article Message to the Eightieth Congress By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: 1945-1953; Succession PDF IMAGES
673-676	November 1941 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Hartman, Lee Foster; Management; Obituaries; Periodical editors; Portraits PDF IMAGES
225-337	August 1941 Article Journey to England, 1941: Footnotes for a future Gibbon By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Journeys—England PDF IMAGES
186-195	July 1940 Article The God of Hitler and Spinoza By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; National socialism; Religion; Theology PDF IMAGES
449-561	April 1940 Article The war and America By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Intervention (International law); Neutrality; Portraits PDF IMAGES
579-673	November 1939 Article Broadcasting the outbreak of war By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Portraits; Press coverage; Radio journalism PDF IMAGES
460-468	October 1939 Article Roosevelt: The rich man's alibi By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Big business; Business and politics; Career as U.S. president; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) PDF IMAGES
536-542	April 1939 Article On not being dead, as reported By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Absence and presumption of death; Death (Presumed); Davis, Elmer Holmes; Obituaries PDF IMAGES
268-277	February 1939 Article The Wisconsin brothers: A study in partial eclipse By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Brothers; Career in Wisconsin politics; Governors; La Follette, Philip Fox; La Follette, Robert Marion PDF IMAGES
40-48	December 1938 Article The road from Munich By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Diplomatic history; Munich four-power agreement, 1938 PDF IMAGES
453-463	October 1938 Article Barnum in modern dress By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career as public officer; Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius); New York World's Fair (1939-1940); Public officers PDF IMAGES
382-390	September 1938 Article On being kept by a cat By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Cat owners; Cats; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES
665-666	May 1938 The lion's mouth/Article Come and eat lunch against Franco By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Social reformers; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
337-348	March 1938 Article We lose the next war By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Economic sanctions, American; Forecasting; Industrial mobilization; Neutrality PDF IMAGES
84-93	June 1937 Article Czechoslovakia: Bridge or barricade? By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Causes; Czechoslovakia; Germans; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
627-636	May 1937 Article Belgium and Holland—isolated? By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Belgium; 1898-1948; National security; Netherlands; Neutrality PDF IMAGES
492-566	April 1937 Article England turns a corner By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: 1936-1945 PDF IMAGES
385-392	March 1937 Article England's weak spot By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
329-332	February 1937 The lion's mouth/Article On the American way of life By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: 1936 PDF IMAGES
412-420	September 1936 Article Post-convention reflections By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: 1936; Political conventions PDF IMAGES
105-108	June 1936 The lion's mouth/Article Melchizedek for president By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
489-491	March 1936 The lion's mouth/Article I resign from social life By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Cocktail parties; Contemporaries—Humor; Conversation; Davis, Elmer Holmes PDF IMAGES
492-501	September 1935 Article The imperfect Wagnerite By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Opera; Wagner, Richard PDF IMAGES
641-652	May 1935 Article New World symphony: With a few sour notes By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Key West; Key West (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
335-346	August 1934 Article The “logic” of history By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Causation; Chance; Historiography; Teleology PDF IMAGES
633-640	May 1934 Article A blow at the foundations: Roosevelt and his air mail policy By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Aircraft industry; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano); Views on air mail subsidies PDF IMAGES
638-640	April 1934 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Elmer Holmes Davis and Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Orthography and spelling PDF IMAGES
341-351	August 1933 Article Makers of martyrs By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Communists; Demonstrations; Judicial error; Political activists; Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931 PDF IMAGES
147-155	July 1933 Article On the gentility of gentiles By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Cultural assimilation; Jews; Middle class; Nazis; Northeastern States; Persecutions; Summer resorts; WASPs (Persons) PDF IMAGES
385-396	March 1933 Article If Roosevelt fails By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano); Hoover, Herbert; 1932; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
613-624	October 1932 Article Wisconsin is different By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Political ethics; Political participation PDF IMAGES
385-395	September 1932 Article The collapse of politics By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: 1929-1933; 1932; Political leadership PDF IMAGES
287-295	August 1932 Article Purest of pleasures: Contract By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Bridge players PDF IMAGES
247-249	July 1932 The lion's mouth/Article Menace wanted By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Reformers; Social problems PDF IMAGES
294-305	February 1932 Article Notes on a new Bible By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Bible; Bible. English; Wells, H.G. (Herbert George); Haldane, J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson); Jensen, Johannes V. (Johannes Vilhelm); Last and first men (Book); Myth; Stapledon, Olaf; Outline of history (Book); Teleology; The long journey (Book); Versions PDF IMAGES
513-522	October 1931 Article Happy days will come again: A prospectus of the next boom By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Finance, Personal PDF IMAGES
189-200	July 1931 Article Repressible issues: A glance toward the 1932 campaign By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: 1929-1933; 1932 PDF IMAGES
631-633	April 1931 The lion's mouth/Article On lying fallow By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Authors' spouses; Children of authors; Writer's block PDF IMAGES
385-396	March 1931 Article Can business manage itself? By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Consumption (Economics); Depressions; Elections, 1930; Industrial management; 1929-1933; Overproduction; Price regulation; To 1933; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
392	February 1931 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Architecture and religion; Modernism; 1901-1945 PDF IMAGES
4-14	December 1930 Article Miniature golf to the rescue By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Finance, Personal; Miniature golf; Popular culture; Recreation PDF IMAGES
385-395	September 1930 Article Founding fathers and straddling sons By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney); Grundy, Joseph R. (Joseph Ridgway); 1919-1933; Political ethics; Voting PDF IMAGES
397-409	March 1930 Article God without religion By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Belief and doubt; Christianity and religious humanism; Faith; Gods; Humanism, Religious; Modernism; Philosophy; Proof; Religion and science; Theology PDF IMAGES
680-692	November 1929 Article Our island universe: Reflections of a resident of Manhattan By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Crime; Tammany Hall PDF IMAGES
294-300	August 1929 Article The dutiful and the damned: A plea for the middle generation By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Conflict of generations; Middle aged persons; Youth PDF IMAGES
409-418	March 1929 Article If Hoover fails By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Smith, Alfred E.; Career as presidential candidate; The Democratic Party; Hoover, Herbert; 1923-1929; 1928; The Republican Party; Xenophobia PDF IMAGES
168-176	January 1929 Article Another Caribbean conquest By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
1-9	December 1928 Article What can we do about it? The candid misgivings of a wet By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Beer; Liquors; 1923-1929; Prohibition; United States. Constitution. 18th amendment; Wine PDF IMAGES
140-152	January 1928 Article Boston: Notes on a barbarian invasion By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Boston (Mass.); Censorship; Industries PDF IMAGES
171-185	July 1927 Article Portrait of an elected person By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Chicago (Ill.); Mayors; Municipal government; To 1950; Thompson, William Hale PDF IMAGES
789-791	May 1927 The lion's mouth/Article The last judgement (with acknowledgments to J.B.S. Haldane) By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: End of the world (Astronomy); Forecasting; Razors; Space colonies PDF IMAGES
685-695	November 1926 Article Remarks on the perfect state By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career as Spartan leader; Lycurgus; Social control PDF IMAGES
615-625	October 1926 Article Have faith in Indiana By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Journeys—Indiana; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) PDF IMAGES
217-228	July 1926 Article The white horse of Sam Parks By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Building trades; Career as business agent for building trade unions; Construction industry; Corrupt practices; Profiteering; Brindell, Robert P.; Parks, Sam; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
10-21	June 1926 Article Portrait of a cleric By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Career in Episcopal Church; Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, New York); Church polity; Episcopal Church; Manning, William T. PDF IMAGES
755-760	November 1924 Article The presidents we deserve By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Nomination; Political conventions; Politics, Practical PDF IMAGES
553-561	October 1924 Article Politics—a two-handed game: Reflections on campaigns, ancient and modern By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: 1924; Political parties PDF IMAGES
539-540	September 1924 The lion's mouth/Article The deductions of Mr. Jinks By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Popular culture PDF IMAGES

700-705	November 1931 Fiction Posterity and Mr. Priddle By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
556-564	April 1930 Fiction The jinx and Phyllis By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
278-288	February 1928 Fiction Ungracious lady By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
490-502	September 1926 Fiction Bride of quietness By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES

ARTICLE (11)
REVIEW (2)
NOTICE (1)

67	July 1958 Article Elmer Davis: 1890-1958 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Davis, Elmer Holmes; Journalists PDF IMAGES
225-338	February 1943 Article Davis and Goliath: The OWI and its gigantic assignment By Michael Darrock and Joseph P. Dorn SEE ALSO: Career as head of Office of War Information; Censorship; Davis, Elmer Holmes; Portraits; Propaganda; United States. Office of War Information PDF IMAGES
337-344	February 1943 Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Portraits; Arnold, Thurman Wesley PDF IMAGES
225-337	August 1941 Article Journey to England, 1941: Footnotes for a future Gibbon By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Journeys—England PDF IMAGES
449-561	April 1940 Article The war and America By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Intervention (International law); Neutrality; Portraits PDF IMAGES
561-573	April 1940 Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Portraits PDF IMAGES
579-673	November 1939 Article Broadcasting the outbreak of war By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Portraits; Press coverage; Radio journalism PDF IMAGES
673-683	November 1939 Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Stokowski, Leopold; Portraits PDF IMAGES
536-542	April 1939 Article On not being dead, as reported By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Absence and presumption of death; Death (Presumed); Davis, Elmer Holmes; Obituaries PDF IMAGES
489-491	March 1936 The lion's mouth/Article I resign from social life By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Cocktail parties; Contemporaries—Humor; Conversation; Davis, Elmer Holmes PDF IMAGES
615-625	October 1926 Article Have faith in Indiana By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Davis, Elmer Holmes; Journeys—Indiana; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) PDF IMAGES

88-95

March 1955

The new books/Review

Ghosts from Germany—and fascinating performances by Marquand, Elmer Davis, Stephen Potter, and assorted cats

By Bruce Bliven

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104-106

May 1954

Books in brief/Review

Books in brief

By Katherine Gauss Jackson

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337	August 1942 Personal and otherwise/Notice Personal and otherwise By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Career as head of Office of War Information; Davis, Elmer Holmes PDF IMAGES

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