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Word: willette (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Houses & Horses. So it went. Chunky Roy Fruehauf, the trailer manufacturer, who was worried about $3,000,000 still owed him on a Lustron contract, testified that Rosenbaum had once told him he had RFC Directors Dunham and Willett "in his hip pocket." Rosenbaum bounced back to the stand and denied he had ever said it. Young tried to explain that he is now in the insurance business, claimed he saved one client $40,000 a year on insurance. How? Young couldn't say-he didn't know much about insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Natural Royal Pastel Stink | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...Senators turned to William E. Willett, one of the three RFC directors charged by the investigating subcommittee with submitting to improper pressure from outside RFC. Willett insisted that he had never done anything unusual as an RFC director. But a few minutes later he admitted that he had taken the "very unusual" step of personally assigning an RFC examiner so that an "old friend" would get a $300,000 RFC loan. (The old friend: Charles E. Rowe, who is now an RFC director himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Turnabout | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Director Willett also defended Young, said he believed Young's version of the Texmass story. "Senator," he went on, "we hear about things like that almost every day. What do you want me to do about it?" Subcommittee Chairman J. William Fulbright glared at the witness. "Then the situation is much worse than I thought," he snapped. "It is' shocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Turnabout | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

John Beer headed in a long pass from halfback Charlie Willett in the opening M.I.T.'s Mike Greenbaum quickly tied up the game in the second quarter. Loeb's winning goal was a high kick off the cross-bar on a pass down the middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Soccer Team Squeaks by M.I.T., 2-1 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...lineups: HARVARD TABOR Anderson, g rfb. Leo Rogers, rfb' lfb. Roubsud Buttrick, lfb rhb, Lawrence Willett, rhb chb, Kirkbride Dean, chb lhb, Bean Armstrong, lhb ro, P. Gomes Joyce, re ri, Maunsell Beer, ri of, Browne Pollak, cf li, Knight Vollenweider, ii to, Tassinari Noble, le to, Tassinari...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Booters Down Tabor, 2-0; Joyce Tallies Two | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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