Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Robertson's delegates had met in Chicago three weeks before, had gone home to get authorization to meet and treat with the executives committee of nine headed by Mr. Willard. This accomplished, the R. L. E. A. returned to Cleveland, sent "Uncle Dan" a telegram naming Chicago as the place and Jan. 14 as the date of their joint conference...
...least reason for optimism was the selection of the railroads' chief rep-resentative?"Uncle Dan." An up-from-the-tracks man, he enjoys the unanimous respect of organized railroad Labor. On his own line this takes the form of something approximating beatification. The judgment of B. & O. employes on him is: "One square guy!" Many a road used President Willard's "B. & O. Plan" to settle the shopmen's strike of 1922. As they prepared to sit down and thresh out together the first major wage problem since 1916, workers and operators of 249,000 U. S. rail miles felt...
...Uncle Dan" Willard was born on a farm near North Hartland, Vt. during the first year of the Civil War. The first locomotive he saw ran by the farm on the old Central Vermont. Aged 16, he taught school for a spell. Aged 17, he was sent to Massachusetts Agricultural College. Bad eyesight compelled him to give up his studies, get a job in a track gang. Three years later he was an engineer on the Connecticut & Passumpsic River, now a part of the Boston & Maine. Then he went West. When next seen he was "hogging" (driving a locomotive...
...along with him. When Frederick Douglass Underwood left the Soo to become general manager of the B. & O. he took Superintendent Willard along as his assistant. That was in 1899. Two years later Mr. Underwood became president of the Erie, asked Mr. Willard to accompany him. "Uncle Dan" went along as general manager. In 1910 he returned East to become president of the road he had left nine years before...
When he took charge, one of the first things President Willard did was cancel all advertising. "We'll start again when we have something to advertise," he said. Having spent nearly half a billion on his railroad in the past 20 years, "Uncle Dan" now has something to advertise. He has authorized copy written this way: "70,000 of us invite you to travel...