Word: hammatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumple-haired, dry-humored William Hammatt Davis wondered if he had jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. After three harried years as War Labor Board chairman, he was appointed last week to succeed Fred Vinson as U.S. Economic Stabilizer...
This week, five days after the election, grizzled WLB Chairman William Hammatt Davis, 65, sent his resignation to Franklin Roosevelt. Promptly, two other public members of WLB, George W. Taylor and Frank P. Graham, followed suit. The difference between their action and all the customary tongue-in-cheek resignations which fluttered down, as usual...
...biggest crisis was a new coal strike, with 530,000 miners out of the pits. There shaggy, humane William Hammatt Davis, chairman of Franklin Roosevelt's War Labor Board, bore the pressure...
...Little Steel formula was devised by the War Labor Board, headed by William Hammatt Davis. The Wage Adjustment Board, an older institution within the Department of Labor, is composed of representatives of the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and the A.F. of L. building trades. In theory it is subject to the War Labor Board. In fact it puts new wage rates into effect-then asks Mr. Davis for a rubber-stamp approval...
...solution of how to keep the ceilings intact, WLB now passed the buck to Congress. Board Chairman William Hammatt Davis said that obviously standards of living must be cut-but the knife should be Congress' taxing power, not WLB's power to negotiate wages...