Word: willard
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Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
...Willard Wirtz received his A.B. from Beloit College in 1933 and his Harvard Law degree in 1937. During World War II, he served on the War Labor Board, and was chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board in 1946. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed him Undersecretary of Labor and in 1962, when Secretary Arthur Goldberg resigned, Kennedy promoted Wirtz to the Cabinet...
Hilliard had the best average among the goalies with a .723 mark. He had 81 saves and allowed 31 goals. Princeton's Willard Reynolds was next with a .693 average...
...April 3-the day before King was murdered-Gait registered at Memphis' Rebel Motel, and his Mustang was seen parked near Room 34. Clerks said that Gait made no telephone calls through their switchboard, but the lights in the room stayed on all night. Next day John Willard-an alias used by Gait-rented Room 5 in the sleazy rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot...
After the shooting, the man called Willard was seen rushing out of the rooming house; the rifle and a ditty bag were found on the street; witnesses reported that the white car tore away at top speed. Amid the confusion, a mysterious radio call described a continuing police chase after the Mustang. The chase went one way, the Mustang another, and the broadcast later was discovered to have been a fake. The killer had been given his chance to escape...