Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became Vice President, he looked around Washington for a house. But "they were all too small or too large.'' He had two boys in school. His salary ($15,000) was almost his only income. Living beyond his income was inconceivable. So he availed himself of the New Willard Hotel's natural eagerness to shelter a Vice President and took a suite there at satisfactory terms. "Any other course for me," he later wrote, "would have been cut short by the barnyard philosophy of my father, who would have contemptuously referred to such action as the senseless imitation...
...Lincoln to Hoover. Long has she labored to build up Washington's Meridian Hill district into a paradise of embassies and official buildings along an "Avenue of the Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating $30,000 to furnish the place, $25,000 per annum to maintain...
Appointed. Dr. Willard Cole Rappleye, 38, to be Dean of Columbia University's School of Medicine; succeeding Dr. William Darrach (TIME...
...most potent railmen and their aides sat down around a big conference table in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. They were William Wallace Atterbury, strident and aggressive president of Pennsylvania R. R.; Patrick Edward ("Pull Eighty Cars") Crowley, diffident and watchful president of New York Central R. R.; Daniel Willard, precise and conciliatory president of Baltimore & Ohio; and the Brothers Van Sweringen, urbane and alert owners of Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. Luncheon was served them in their chairs. Nine hours later they arose together after concluding an agreement so momentous they did not trust themselves to announce...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, and chairman of the Board of Preachers, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...