Word: harriman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Country & For Yale. Bob Lovett, Wall Streeter (partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), director in half-a-dozen railroads, banks and insurance companies, went to Washington in December 1940 as an assistant to Secretary of War Stimson (whom he reveres as a great and effective official). He was no tyro at the flying game, as Army men speedily discovered when they looked up his record...
...painter who ever lived, a retired French customs inspector named Henri Rousseau, had his biggest U.S. exhibition ever, at the Chicago Art Institute last fortnight. In Manhattan, 30 men & women who painted for fun in their spare time will have their works elaborately hung this week at the Marie Harriman Gallery. A connoisseur of amateur painting named Sidney Janis has written a solemn 236-page book about them.* All these amateurs had one thing in common: they had learned painting the hard way, by laboriously teaching themselves...
Froelich was one of the handsome Austrian and German experts whom W. Averell Harriman had brought to Idaho to teach Sun Valley colonists how to ski. Mr. Harriman had imported yodeling German waiters and musicians too, but Froelich and the other Skimeisters, Tyrolean hats cocked on their heads, were the climatic touch. They whizzed around the towering cornices of the hills, swooped like eagles over the white slopes of the Sawtooth Mountains. The ladies loved them...
Russia's most immediate need is for tanks. The Beaverbrook-Harriman mission was pressed for quick delivery of tanks above all, even if it meant sacrificing planes. Of airplanes, Russia needs heavy bombers most. Machine tools, unfortunately the rarest and most complicated gadgets, are badly needed. Russia asked the U.S. for more than 30,000 tons of steel a month, especially for 5,000 tons a month of rare superhard tool steel;* for between 5,000 and 10,000 tons a month of aluminum; considerable quantities of nickel. The U.S. had to turn down a request for magnesium. Britain...
...entertained Crown Princess Martha of Norway, postponed his return to Washington when the weather cleared. With an almost ostentatious disregard of the news he spent the Sunday morning with members of the Chapel Corners Grange, although the mission from Moscow had been on hand a full day. Averell Harriman, keeping to the tempo of the time, flew from Moscow to London, broadcast a breathless speech of confidence in Russia, flew to the U.S. in a U.S. Navy patrol bomber, raced to his home in Harriman, N.Y., 35 miles from Hyde Park. Harry Hopkins ran back and forth. But the President...