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...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...
...Chapel Engin, Sciences 10 Sever 29 English 3a Sever 36 English 9 Sever 29 English 29a Barnes to Leonard Sever 5 Lincoin to Zinn Sever 6 Fine Arts 1c Abbott to Holines 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...
...interesting to note what mountains of opposition had to be removed by the faith of the early advocates of this juggling with the clock. Willett died without seeing the motion he had long advocated in the House of Commons become law, and only this present year the French Senate changed its opinion on the matter several times. Like all new ideas it was difficult to grasp. Farmers could not see how cows could be milked or wheat grown if the clock were altered and mothers could not understand how it would be possible to get their babies to sleep. This...