Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California Institute of Technology have published a collection of essays and entitled this "welter of conflicting opinion" "These United States." These articles are grouped under eight headings: society, business and economics, politics, science, religion, literature and art, and sport. Among the authors represented are: William B. Munro, Willard L. Sperry, Raphael Demos, F. W. Taussig, William Z. Ripley, Floyd H. Allport, Harold J. Laski, Albert Jay Nock, Walter Lippmann, Robert A. Millikan, Bishop William Lawrence, Max Eastman, and John R. Tunis...
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the Memorial Chapel for William B. Parker '97, editor, writer, and literary adviser, who died Saturday after a short illiness. Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, officiated...
...hall from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that the Senate Commerce Committee, on which sat Mississippi's junior Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, was considering the appointment of Dr. Willard Thorp as an expert for the Department of Commerce, Clipper Bilbo pricked up his large ears. When he learned that Dr. Thorp had once registered as a Republican while at Amherst, he dropped his shears and paste, scuttled back to Mississippi with the news that Senator Stephens was about...
During the twelve years of Republican rule no railroad executive was more popular in Washington than Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of Baltimore & Ohio. Over his line Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover rode on most of their trips and often in "Uncle Dan's" own private car. The White House door was constantly swinging open to him for Presidential conferences on railroad problems. His name, as spokesman for his industry, could be found on practically every list of tycoons picked by the President to do this or that public job. The country had every reason to believe that grey-haired...
...best of pillars outlive their usefulness and have to be replaced. Mr. Willard, now 73, does not call as often as he once did at the White House. President Roosevelt does his railroad talking now with men like Carl Gray of Union Pacific and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Lawyer-Lobbyist Robert Virgil Fletcher of the Association of Railway Executives has so far failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would...