Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When William Morris Leiserson was arbitrating labor rows in the disputatious garment industry, he used to say: "I give the decision to one side, but I give the language to the other." Last week the President nominated diplomatic William Leiserson to the National Labor Relations Board...
...Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman of the National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that messenger boys come under the Wage & Hour Law, he did not forget to butter up big Western Union and other complaining companies with kindly words...
...Leiserson replaces Donald Wakefield Smith who has had a recess appointment since his term expired last August. To replace William Leiserson on NMB, the President chose another man small in stature, large in repute: David John Lewis, the learned, lovable, little Maryland ex-Congressman who was used last year in a bitter and stupid effort to purge Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.).* As a worthy favorite at 70, Davey Lewis was considered too old for arduous duty on NLRB, just right for the easier routine of a railway mediator...
While Poland and Germany thus prepared for a showdown, journalistic prophets were busy. New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye journeyed from Europe to Manhattan to declare "war inevitable." Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor William Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that Führer Hitler was thinking over the possibility of sudden, simultaneous moves against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich...
...William J. Bingham '16, Harvard Athletic Director, refused to comment officially; Yale's Athletic Director is in New York and could not be reached yesterday. However, officials at both colleges stated that the "channel is too narrow, and the currents are too varying for three crews...