Word: willett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long and was built less for speed than for cruising comfort. Except for two winter trips between Manhattan and Liverpool, she will be in regular service between Canadian ports and Liverpool in summer and in cruise service during the winter. Aboard when she docked at Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful mainly for advertising purposes. He considers that the new-type vessels being built considerably shorter than this by German shipyards will...
...Christian Century staff are Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, Dr. Herbert L. Willett and Dr. Paul Hutchinson. This triumvirate and their associates have ever been pugnacious for Christian standards. Often they have been thought "too independent." When most churchmen believed sincerely that the best way to enduring world concord depended on the U. S. joining 'the World Court, this periodical opposed it. An example of unusual enterprise for religious journals was their despatching of questionnaires over a year ago to every minister of every Protestant denomination in the U. S. They wanted to know which of their co-workers these...
...December, George F. Willett, banker of Norwood, Mass., sued the Boston banking firms of F. S. Moseley & Co., Killer, Peabody & Co. and Robert F. Herrick, Boston lawyer, for $15,000,000. He claimed that these had conspired to rob his onetime firm, Willett, Sears & Co., of the control of two felt companies. After the longest superior court trial on record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett...
Suit was brought by George F. Willett, Norwood manufacturer, against Robert F. Herrick, prominent Boston corporation lawyer, and the partners of the banking firm of F. S. Mosely & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. for a conspiracy on the part of the defendant bankers and Mr. Herrick, their counsel, to get for themselves valuable manufacturing properties including the American Felt Co. and the Daniel Green Felt Shoe Co., belonging to the plaintiff and his partners...
...Chapel Engin. Sciences 10 Sever 29 English 3a Sever 36 English 9 Sever 29 English 29a Barnes to Leonard Sever 5 Lincoln to Zinn Sever 6 Fine Arts 1c Abbott to Holmes Fogg Lect. Rm. Horn to Wulling Harvard 1 French 8 Anopolsky to Holmes Sever 30 Huberman to Willett Sever 35 Geology 13 New Lect. Hall German 1b, 1, 2 Sever 11 German 5 Sever 23 History 9 Harvard 2 History 24b Sever 24 History 32a New Lect. Hall Latin B 1, 2 Prof. Howard, 1 Sever 17 Prof. Rand, 2 Sever 18 Latin 1 Sever 23 Mathematics...