Word: willett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exercised a marvelous influence over RFC. A fascinating note of the investigation: Dawson had spent more than 20 rent-free days in $3O-per-day accommodations in Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel, another RFC borrower. During the course of the investigation, RFC Directors Walter Dunham and William Willett were named as having been unduly influenced by Donald Dawson. Both left the Government-unmourned...
...poetry readings by ex-Rhodes Scholar Edward Weismiller. "I pay $2.50 for a book," said an insurance company vice president, "and I get $2.50's worth of good out of it. But that Weismiller gets $10,000 out of the same book." Added Gorden E. Willett, a Farmers Insurance Group office manager: "I used to think that poetry was fine for the other fellow but not for me. Now I know better. I'm the other fellow...
...MARIE WILLETT Washington...
...Truman's crony, White House Aide Donald Dawson. Whitehair was not a hit with the admirals, who thought that he neglected the Navy in favor of politics in his home state of Florida. They were scandalized when he gave an $11,800-a-year job to William E. Willett, another Dawson pal whom the Senate had refused to reconfirm as an RFC director (TIME, Dec. 24, 1951). Worst of all was Whitehair's arrogance. He told one admiral: "When you come in here to see me, bring a notebook with you." Navy Secretary Dan Kimball intended to resign...
...could not even prove that they were the authentic masterpieces that local tradition holds them to be. But they had been a treasured part of St. Joseph's, and last week the parishioners prayed for their return. When there was no word, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. James H. Willett, St. Joseph's pastor, sent an open message to the thieves: "We are praying that you will realize that you have stolen from the house of God, and if you will only return the paintings, we will pray that you will be forgiven...