Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after last week's birthday party Mr. Crocker retired to his bank's chairmanship and his older son was named to succeed him as president. William Willard ("Willie") Crocker became a vice president in 1919 after a year's training tour through Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Like his father, he went to Yale (Class of 1915), earned a crew Y, a Phi Beta Kappa key, a tap on the back from Scroll & Keys. After a turn at the Harvard Law School, he drove an ambulance in France, attended a French artillery school, transferred...
...last week's Jackson Day Dinner in 2,000 cities (see p. 11), James Aloysius Farley awakened in Washington to discover that the party he bosses had eaten itself out of its $400,000 deficit in a single night. Invigorated by the news, Boss Farley hurried to the Willard Hotel to put some iron into his fellow members of the Democratic National Committee, gathered for the first big war talk of the 1936 campaign. From his opening remarks, it was clear that Boss Farley still had political money on his mind...
...since President Roosevelt removed Georgia's relief administration from his hands, Governor Talmadge has called himself a "Jeffersonian," as distinguished from a "Jacksonian." Democrat. Popping up in Washington, Gene Talmadge ostentatiously absented himself from the Jack son Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel but showed up at the Willard next morning just before Boss Farley made his rousing speech...
...already listened this year to Charles Cestre, exchange professor from the University of Paris; John L. Lowes '05, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Theodore Spencer, instructor in English; and Willard L. Sperry, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Professor of Homiletics...
...Willard L. Sperry, professor of Homiletics and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will conduct the annual Christmas Services in the Memorial Church on Sunday and Monday evenings, December 15 and 16 at 8 o'clock...