Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his political prime minister, Jim Farley. Jesse Isador Straus, Claude Bowers, Henry Morgenthau Jr., James Michael Curley, Howard Bruce, Homer Cummings, Clark Howell, John Cohen were some of the names the President-elect juggled about on paper to see how they might fit into the new administration. William Hartman Woodin, the new Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Manhattan to discuss the banking situation in the light of the Maryland moratorium (see p. 18). And on his heels entered Daniel Calhoun Roper, new Secretary of Commerce, with fresh plans for wringing larger savings out of government reorganization...
...settled down to conferences on his Cabinet and policies. An important caller: Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, back from London with his Government's latest views on War Debts. An important development: Senator Carter Glass finally refused the Treasury portfolio, which thereupon went, it appeared, to William Hartman Woodin, musical president of American Car & Foundry...
Over the luncheon dishes in his private car, Mr. Roosevelt conferred with four advisers: Norman Hezekiah Davis, who, some think, will be the next Secretary of State, and others, the next Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; American Car & Foundry's William Hartman Woodin whom some dopesters put into the Treasury; the "brain trust," Professors Moley & Tugwell. Also aboard was Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, who took President Wilson's stomach pump ; way and made him exercise, to discuss the inauguration plans...
...three engine-makers-Baldwin's dewlapped Samuel Matthews Vauclain, American's songwriting, politically prominent William Hartman Woodin (see p. 9) and smaller Lima Locomotive's Joel Stanley Coffin-saw the danger signals ahead in 1928. Each company sought other ways to make money. They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down...
...William Hartman Woodin...