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    Joseph E. Davies

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  1. Joseph Edward Davies (November 29, 1876 – May 9, 1958) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912, and he was the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1915.

  2. Mar 3, 2017 · In Nov.16, 1936, Joseph Edward Davies was appointed to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union by President Roosevelt. Davies was the only western diplomat in the Soviet history who was...

  3. Apr 8, 2021 · In 1935, Post married the American diplomat Joseph E. Davies. Davies served consecutive ambassadorial assignments in Moscow (1937-38) and Brussels (1938-39), with Post by his side. While in the Soviet Union, it was Post’s job to help facilitate diplomatic relations between American and Soviet officials.

  4. Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband Ambassador Joseph E. Davies (center) with Carlton Skinner at a presentation of a Naval Reserve Pennant on board her yacht Sea Cloud. Joseph E. Davies : In 1935, Post married her third husband, Joseph E. Davies , a Washington, D.C., lawyer.

  5. In response to an enormous growth of trusts in the late nineteenth century, demands for reform among a wide spectrum of interest groups culminated in the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1915. Playing an influential, though little-recognized role in framing this legislation was Wisconsin progressive Democrat Joseph E. Davies.

  6. Joseph Edward Davies (November 29, 1876 – May 9, 1958) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912, and he was the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1915.

  7. Jun 1, 2007 · Joseph E. Davies is best known for his controversial service as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1937–38. His 1941 book, Mission to Moscow, and the movie based on that book, provided a highly favorable image of the Soviet Union during World War II, when both the United States and Russia were warring against Nazi Germany.

  8. In the wonderful success gained by the Democratic party in the presidential election of 1912, there flashed suddenly into public notice the name of Joseph E. Davies, of Madison, Wisconsin, a young attorney, a member of the law firm of Aylward, Davies, Olbrich and Hill.

  9. Joseph E. Davies (1876–1958) was the United States' second ambassador to the Soviet Union during the 1930s, a time when that communist power was ruled by brutal dictator Josef Stalin. Davies became controversial for casting the Soviet government in a positive light, glossing over its atrocities, and promoting U.S.-Soviet cooperation ...

  10. Dec 10, 1992 · Joseph E. Davies: Envoy to the Soviets. Elizabeth Maclean. Bloomsbury Academic, Dec 10, 1992 - Political Science - 270 pages. This biography is a complete reassessment of an important American...

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