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Dawes

[ dawz ]

noun

  1. Charles Gates, 1865–1951, U.S. financier and diplomat: vice president of the U.S. 1925–29; Nobel Peace Prize 1925.
  2. 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

  1. 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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