Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music will be under the direction of Professor Archibald Davison '05, university choirmaster and organist. Dean Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Harvard board of preachers, will conduct the services...
There were extraordinary doings on the third floor of Washington's Willard Hotel one day last week. A score of photographers squatted in the corridor with lenses trained on the elevator. Newsreel men fidgeted with their cameras. Reporters milled around in the glare of light reflectors. Suddenly the door opened, an elevator boy gave them a prearranged nod, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor stepped forth accompanied by George McGregor Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s three-man committee currently trying to reunite the divided House of Labor. Waving his hands...
With a marked lack of enthusiasm the crowd in the corridor took the Senator's statement and picture, and then settled down to some fun with the Willard's diminutive bellhop, Joe Johnson, posing him in innumerable belligerent attitudes defending the door against all comers. After exhausting the possibilities of Joe Johnson, who informed them that he had once been photographed perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening...
...telegrams to hold a formal peace conference. Last week the two delegations met in Washington-three men from A. F. of L., ten from C.I.O. From the start the conference seemed doomed. Superstitious reporters noted that the delegates numbered 13. Even the site of the conference, the creaky old Willard Hotel, was inauspicious, for the Willard itself is involved in one of those labor disputes that greys the hair of the National Labor Relations Board-a dispute variously known as the "warm applesauce case" or the "case of the peacock china...
Only ray in this atmosphere of almost universal gloom was the leadership of the peace delegations. Speaking for A. F. of L. at the big oval table on the third floor of the Willard was George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, stocky, 42-year-old head of A. F. of L. railroad department and president of the potent Railway Labor Executives association...