Word: harriman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omaha convention, which coincides neatly with the Union Pacific's Golden Spike celebration, Gracie will travel over the U. P. lines in W. Averell Harriman's private car, will have a torchlight parade of 25,000 whiskerinos...
...merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern of the late Financier E. H. Harriman. who always bought at the bottom. Wall Street, long in the dumps (a Stock Exchange seat last week sold at $48,000-lowest since 1918), has to Optimist Pierce and Realist Merrill become a buy again...
...problem no longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...
Bare as a fresh-scrubbed deck was the story of First Mate Warren W. Rhoads, who wrote a solemn, copyrighted history of the trip for the New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc. Of their stay in Bergen: "Mrs. Harriman, our United States Minister to Norway, came aboard, a very fine lady. She thanked us all for the way we conducted ourselves . . . and said our State Department was grateful. ... I was badly in need of a haircut and so were the rest of the crew, so we asked for a barber." Ashore went First Mate Rhoads...