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...HARRIS WILLINGHAM...
...Sughrue, L. J. Tiachner, R. A. Vauderbilt, C. H. Vossler, C. T. Walder, R. S. Wallace, G. W. Walter, Clarence Walton, P. W. Welch, Reinald Werrenrath, Jr., R. F. Willeford, F. M. Willingham, P. G. Willis, and L. A. Wingate, Jr., W. P. Himburg, Sidney Hirshon...
...table was FACA's director, Joseph Hodges Choate Jr., 57, of Manhattan. His companions: Edward G. Lowry, special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, and Harris Willingham of the Department of Agriculture. Not present were: William Allen Tarver, chief counsel of the Department of Justice's defunct Prohibition unit, and Willard L. Thorp, director of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. These five were the officers of FACA's control committee...
...Harris Willingham was the man who had drafted the distillers' code which President Roosevelt had just signed at Warm Springs. Under that code the liquor traffic was reborn to find that, as for 200 years past in the U. S., it was still not considered quite respectable, was still to exist only by sufferance...
...records (Nat. Hist. Lib. vii. -xxvii) a similar instance. A more detailed account of such a phenomenon is given in a curious tract in the Bodleian [Bodl. Pamph. Godw. 87. (4)] which bears the following title: Prodlgium Willingkamense: Or, authentic Memoirs in the Life of a Boy, Born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741; who, before he was Three Years old, was Three Feet, Eight inches high And had the Marks of Puberty. With some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius and Knowledge. By T. Dawkes, Surgeon. London...