Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...82nd annual meeting of the American Chemical Society approached next week (at Buffalo), Professor Pauling's career and accomplishments were objects of many secret discussions. U.S. Chemistry has had two great rewards for its doers: the William H. Nichols Medal and the Josiah Willard Gibbs Medal...
...Willard on Napes. As the rail representatives were closing Phase ! of the I. C. C. hearings with long wails about carrier credit, President Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio, one of the half dozen executives who started the rate-increase ball rolling last May, was inspecting his new Chicago & Alton property in Kansas City. Drumming his fingers nervously he there declared: "We can't take the public by the nape of the neck and force it to ride. We can only give it such courteous and fair treatment that it will want to ride. The railroads come back? They haven...
...Willard's career as a railroad executive manager is no more drawing to a close at his present age, than that of Mr. Chauncey Depew of the New York Central, Mr. E. P. Ripley of the Atchison, Mr. J. R. Kenly of the Atlantic Coast Line, Mr. Milton Smith of the Louisville and Nashville, and many other eminent illustrations, who reached an unusually ripe old age before relinquishing management of their great interests. Mr. Willard is not only in sound and virile health, but he is more than favorably comparable in that respect with troops of other...
...airy ballroom on the tenth floor of Washington's New Willard Hotel assembled for two days last week some 400 men and women. A few were Negro. Many were young. All were Republican. They had been called together by energetic Robert Hendry Lucas, executive director of the Republican National Committee, for a party "fight talk." They nominally paid their own expenses from every State in the Union to be inculcated with the Hoover brand of Republicanism. As a matter of practical politics, their rally marked the Republican National Committee's first mass gesture toward re-nominating...
Died. Anna Adams Gordon, 78, nine years world president of the W. C. T. U.; in a sanitorium at Castle, N. Y.; of a general breakdown. She served the Dry cause for 54 years, was 21 years secretary to Founder Frances Willard...