Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors at the last moment were ordered to stay home. But so many bigwigs were allowed to attend that the delegates told each other there could be no war while they were away from their armies. In beribboned and bemedaled uniforms, they made the staid lobby of the Willard Hotel gay. They also made excellent propaganda for peace. To experts' previews of the next...
When Franklin Roosevelt journeys from Washington to Hyde Park, he generally takes the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. It is his favorite passenger line and its 78-year-old president, Daniel Willard, is his good friend. Genial Dan Willard is also the good friend of RFC Chairman Jesse Jones and has many a warm admirer in Congress, where he is regarded as a liberal with a good railroad labor record. In the last year and a half this widespread affection for President Willard is about all that has saved the sore-pressed B. & 0. from reorganization...
...June, without collateral for another loan, it met a $1,700,000 debt only because Jesse Jones arranged for PWA to buy the road's run-down Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, unused for 15 years, for $2,000,000. Last November the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed Dan Willard to cut his fixed charges $11,000,000 a year by persuading the bondholders to accept an eight-year moratorium on interest payments. Last week Dan Willard personally appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to ask that Congress spare him the "personal disgrace" of a B. & O. bankruptcy by passing...
...between the road and its bondholders and for postponement of interest payments. Nonetheless, Chairman Wheeler, who could stop the Chandler Bill if he wishes, is letting it by with but one change-he intends to amend its technicalities so that in practice only the little Lehigh Valley and Dan Willard's B. & O. will be able to take advantage...
Last week old Dan Willard, eyes flashing, still insisted valiantly: "If I thought business conditions were to remain as bad as they are, I would say put us into receivership. . . . The railroads are going to :ome back again. ... I haven't lost confidence in the United States...