CARRIERS: Dan Willard's Friends

When Franklin Roosevelt journeys from Washington to Hyde Park, he generally takes the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. It is his favorite passenger line and its 78-year-old president, Daniel Willard, is his good friend. Genial Dan Willard is also the good friend of RFC Chairman Jesse Jones and has many a warm admirer in Congress, where he is regarded as a liberal with a good railroad labor record. In the last year and a half this widespread affection for President Willard is about all that has saved the sore-pressed B. & 0. from...

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