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Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie : ウィキペディア英語版 | Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie Eugenie Mary "May" Ladenburg Davie (1895–September 19, 1975) was a noted Republican activist in New York and a director of the controversial Pioneer Fund at the end of her life.〔Staff report (August 7, 1958). Millionaire Politician; Mrs. May Preston Davie. ''New York Times''〕 She was second wife to influential lawyer Preston Davie.〔Staff report (May 6, 1930). EUGENIE LADENBURG TO WED ON MAY 31; Her Marriage to Preston Davie to Take Place at Home of Joseph S. Stevens, Jericho, L.I. PLANS ARE INCOMPLETE Fiancee, a Member of Colony Club, Is Only Child of the Late Adolf Ladenburg, Banker. ''New York Times''〕 ==Political activism==
Davie was descended from a Tammany Hall founder and was a lifelong activist.〔Staff report (April 29, 1952). MRS. DAVIE STILL FOR TAFT; She Also Says She'll Not Resign Despite Osterman Demand. ''New York Times''〕 Her 1917 affair with Bernard Baruch was of great interest to Alice Roosevelt Longworth who monitored the affair "in the name of patriotism," in the words of historian Blanche Wiesen Cook.〔Blanche Wiesen Cook (1993). ''Eleanor Roosevelt''. Penguin, ISBN 0-14-009460-1〕 She once angered pilot Amelia Earhart by injecting political commentary into a speech introduction.〔Staff report (December 24, 1935). MISS EARHART IRKED BY SPEECH AT DINNER; Says Mrs. Preston Davie Injected Political Argument in Talk Introducing Her. ''New York Times''〕 Davie was on the Republican National Finance Committee, a regent of the National Library of Medicine, a trustee at Adelphi College and Long Island University; chairwoman of the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government. A onetime leader of the Landon Volunteers, she was vice president of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc.〔Staff report (January 12, 1942). Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: Hen-yard Pagliaccio. ''Time''〕 She butted heads with Fiorello La Guardia during World War II after he told William Fellowes Morgan, Jr. to dismiss her as an unpaid assistant.〔Staff report (December 29, 1941). DUAL JOB CRITICISM OF MAYOR RENEWED; Mrs. Davie, Figure in Markets Row, Deplores La Guardia's Inability to See Aides. ''New York Times''〕 She became an active member of the Republican Party and was the head of the Woman’s Auxiliary during Wendell Willkie’s campaign to unseat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.〔(), The Reese Family Papers, ''Marist College Archive and Special Collections''.〕 La Guardia's tenure marked the end of the Tammany power in New York, and Davie's political influence gradually faded over the ensuing decades.〔Staff report (May 16, 1962). Mrs. Davie on Fair Agency. ''New York Times''〕〔Staff report (March 25, 1965). G.O.P. Honors Mrs. Davie, Retiring as a County Aide. ''New York Times''〕
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