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Show NEW RED CROSS CHAIRMAN f 4 r ,- i -y, ' ; i K - t It ' , v t , f , f J ' ' - ' - " J tv'A ' r ' i ! K " - Jl? 1 - il A ' .M , Blank & SloUer ehol ( NORMAN H. DAVIS NORMAN H. DAVIS, newly appointed ap-pointed chairman of the American Ameri-can Red Cross, .has assumed active direction of the natioa-wide organization organi-zation with headquarters in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. Mr. Davis, named chairman by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, following fol-lowing the death ot Admiral Cary T. Grayson, has been active for twenty years as a Special Ambassador of . the United States to International conferences, dealing with world peace, finances, and disarmament. He has represented the United States In this official capacity by appointment ap-pointment of Presidents Wilson. Hoover and Roosevelt. A native of Tennessee, he engaged in banking in Cuba as a young man, and first came into active public service ser-vice during the World War. He for merly made his home In New York, but since assuming his new post with the Red Cross has bought an historic residence In Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac from the nation's capital. |