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Dawes
[ dawz ]
noun
- Charles Gates, 1865–1951, U.S. financier and diplomat: vice president of the U.S. 1925–29; Nobel Peace Prize 1925.
- William, 1745–99, U.S. Revolutionary patriot: rode with Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott warning Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston.
Dawes
/ dɔːz /
noun
- DawesCharles Gates18651951MUSBUSINESS: financierPOLITICS: diplomatPOLITICS: statesman Charles Gates. 1865–1951, US financier, diplomat, and statesman, who devised the Dawes Plan for German reparations payments after World War I; vice president of the US (1925–29); Nobel peace prize 1925
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Not only was Dawes, like Hoover, a prominent Republican; he was also an ex-RFC official.
Beth Dawes (Alexis Bledel) underwent electroshock therapy to cast off the gray clouds surrounding her.
Dawes said they wanted help; that they were going to hold a mass meeting in Strathcona the following morning at nine o'clock.
Dawes went away, and before we broke off to go to dinner at the railroad club, I was given a memorandum order for the special.
“Jump up here, now,” said Dawes, flinging a couple of rugs on top of the load of goods.
And then, again, when they were on the move, he induced Dawes to initiate him into the mysteries of waggon-driving.
This Dawes had given up to his two passengers, he himself turning in upon the ground.
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