Word: hammatt
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...William Hammatt Davis, doing his dogged best as umpire, had kept tempers down. Where they met, in the big board room of the Federal Reserve Building, not yet sold for taxes (see p. 54), were enough longstanding feuds and well-ripened hates to make the session remarkable even in Washington. The only conferee from whom John L. Lewis remained studiedly aloof was A.F. of L. President William Green. Mr. Green pretended not to notice. Mr. Davis was optimistic about reaching an early, happy ending this week.* The country hoped...
...board's chairman, William Hammatt Davis, was not ready for the scrap heap, either. Despite the bazoos blown at him by various critics, the chunky, tenacious mediator had made a phenomenal record by peaceably unraveling the most tangled wrangles. With his belief that reasonable men in reasonable discussion can always find a way out, Mr. Davis was one of the brightest hopes the U.S. had in the murky field of industrial disputes. When the new mediation machinery was set up, observers felt reasonably sure that Mr. Davis would have his hand on the throttle...
...White House. Franklin Roosevelt's Mediation Board, under the miraculously skillful management of bushy-headed William Hammatt Davis, had done a champion job: they had built up a great structure in which the public, industry and labor alike had confidence, were now within sight of roofing this house with a definite pattern of dispute settlement, under which all disputants would automatically turn to mediation machinery, would never strike. As last week opened, Davis was ready to nail on the weather vane: for the first time in seven months not a single actual strike case was before the Board...
Pleased over this catalysis was bland, bespectacled William Hammatt Davis, a patent attorney by profession, a mediator by choice, who believes in the basic good will and sanity of men. He also believes that the Board is doing a good job, maintains...
...implication, fullest fury of the storm burst over William Hammatt Davis, who had succeeded Wisconsin University President Clarence Dykstra as chairman of the Defense Mediation Board. He sponged off in his corner, unperturbed...