Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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October 2, Willard L. Sperry, Chairman, Board of Preachers, Harvard University...
Governor Roosevelt had put much thought and effort into his railroad speech. Its preparation began weeks ago in Albany. Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Union Pacific's Carl Gray and William Averell Harriman had conferred with him on the subject. American Car & Foundry's William Woodin had contributed ideas as had Bernard Baruch, Wall Street's "White Eagle." Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley of the Roosevelt ''brain trust" had done his share of advising and researching. Circulated in advance among railroad men and bankers interested in rail securities, an early draft had received wide if silent commendation. The final address...
...Increased repair and maintenance by railroads, headed by Daniel Willard (Baltimore &Ohio), and George H. Houston (Baldwin Locomotive...
...Johnstown's alarmed citizens went the Baltimore & Ohio chief of police, direct from Mr. Willard on a mysterious mission. Mr. Willard, it was gathered, had seen President Hoover. The B. & 0. would provide trains to move the B. E. F. westward. Somehow the Federal Government would foot the bill. But no B. & O. train would be run east; in that direction on its line lay Washington. One noon a citizens committee called on Mayor McCloskey, told him of the B. & O.'s offer, induced him to use his hard-boiled political oratory...
Into Warwick will troop some 30 doctors from the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Manhattan. Under direction of Columbia's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye and with the advice of Professor Frederick Tilney (neurologist) and his colleagues, the platoon of doctors will function as a pre-gangster prophylactic unit...