Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organization. James Andrew Moffett, scion of an old family that had made its millions with Rockefeller in oil, proved his love for the New Deal last year by quitting as vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey to back a more vigorous oil code than President Walter Teagle favored. For that he was rewarded with a job on the Planning & Coordinating Board of the Petroleum Industry, later got another job with Standard Oil of Cali fornia. This July President Roosevelt sat him down to organize the housing drive...
...tumble-down little house overlooking a backyard dump in Pittsburgh, newshawks found a tattered sexagenarian living on relief funds, identified him as William Andrew Mellon, first cousin of one-time Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Said Cousin William: 'T need this place because I can read, study, think and dream. . . . Andy has been sending me money monthly...
...Magyar woman gave the price of a month's meat. A millworker offered his all. But modern cathedrals are not built by small fry. To Pittsburgh's potent industrialists Chancellor Bowman had to turn for the huge chunks of cash which his dream demands. His trustees include Andrew William Mellon and his nephew Richard, Oilman Joseph Clifton Trees, Foodman Howard Heinz. Westinghouse Boardchairman Andrew Wells Robertson, Banker Henry Clay McEldowney, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir...
...Archbishop Hanna and the board went octogenarian Andrew Furuseth who has lived on San Francisco's Embarcadero for more than 40 years, organized seamen, fought their battles and now heads the International Seamen's Union of America. He pleaded with strikers: "With confidence and justice we can settle this strike within 24 hours and without bloodshed. Men, let's get together while there is still time. The only thing in the way of peace now is distrust, one group of the other...
...Dakota violently disagreed last week. Last month Governor William Langer was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the U. S. Government by soliciting party funds, in the guise of subscriptions to his administration newspaper, from Federal employes (TIME, June 25). A stay of sentence was granted by Federal Judge Andrew Miller pending the forthcoming primary elections, in which Governor Langer was a candidate to succeed himself...