Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teachers on the NYA Advisory Board, now staffed with such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied a decent health program or are doing without a full year's work in arithmetic...
...Texas youth named Willard James Turntine was Spy Thompson's roommate. One day Thompson fondly confided his whole story to the boy. Patriotic Willard Turntine thereupon unburdened himself to Navy Intelligence officers, fled back to Texas. The officers trailed Thompson to many a meeting with Miyazaki, arrested him four months ago on a charge of masquerading in Navy uniform. Meantime Toshio Miyazaki had left the country...
...events will start at 11.30 o'clock in back of Winthrop House with Willard L. Sperry, dean of the Divinity School offering prayer. This will be followed by the Class Oration of Arthur G. Sullivan '36. The Class Poem and Ode will then be given by Francis J. Whitfield and Lewis Perry, Jr. with Gordon F. Robertson winding up the exercises as Chorister...
Opening with the Senior Class Chapel Service led by Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, Harvard's Commencement day will begin at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning...
...five speakers will be Bishop Francis McConnell, of New York City; the Reverend Michael Ahern, of Weston College; the Very Reverend Frederick Clifton Grant, Dean of Seabury-Western Divinity chool; Mr. Clarence E. Pickett, of Philadelphia, Secretary of the American Friends' Service Committee; and Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School...