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Pleased over this catalysis was bland, bespectacled William Hammatt Davis, a patent attorney by profession, a mediator by choice, who believes in the basic good will and sanity of men. He also believes that the Board is doing a good job, maintains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Storm over NDMB | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...implication, fullest fury of the storm burst over William Hammatt Davis, who had succeeded Wisconsin University President Clarence Dykstra as chairman of the Defense Mediation Board. He sponged off in his corner, unperturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Storm over NDMB | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Practically the whole National Defense Mediation Board last week suffered from a common disease. Vice Chairman William Hammatt Davis of the Mediation Board was in conference one afternoon with other Board members and the Board's young executive secretary, Ralph Theodore Seward, when Seward's head drooped. His eyes grew heavy behind his thick glasses, and suddenly he was asleep. Nudged awake, he stumbled across the room, fell onto a divan, and slept the rest of the afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sleeping Mediators | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Through the babel of indignation, of cries for laws to outlaw strikes, came one calm voice. The owner of the voice was William Hammatt Davis, vice chairman of the National Defense Mediation Board. He spoke to the House Military Affairs Committee, but his words were for the whole U.S. Said he: "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One Calm Voice | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

They ought to use their legal remedy and not the remedy of force." A squat, sloppily dressed man with a mop of uncombed hair and the face of a kindly bulldog, William Hammatt Davis, 61, is a successful Manhattan patent attorney who has long made labor relations his avocation. He has served in many a Government agency, State and national, was chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. To him belongs credit for settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike, which Labor Department conciliators had given up, OPM's Hillman had fumbled and OPM's Knudsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One Calm Voice | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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