Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus spoke Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, the first woman Treasurer of the U.S. to an audience of 105 women in San Francisco's ornate Fairmont Hotel last week...
...Clark's audience would dream of putting money in a sugar jar. The women were delegates to the 27th annual convention of the Association of Bank Women, a good cross section of the 5,636 women bank executives...
...concerned, the job was to report the economic terrain exactly as he saw it. As far as Keyserling was concerned, the job was to report the scene so that it fitted into the political philosophy of Harry Truman's Democratic Party. Between those two points of view, Clark wavered back & forth. In the beginning, Nourse's view of the CEA as an economic transit, not a political tool, generally prevailed...
...Economic Advisers. The CEA had been set up to keep the President informed as to the complex economy's ups & downs and in-betweens. On the CEA with Nourse were ardent New Dealer Keyserling, 41, who helped Senator Robert Wagner write the Wagner Act, and John D. Clark, an economic and political anomaly who was onetime vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...major-league ball club. Its weird collection of refugees from the minors did not hit, field, hustle or get paid as big-leaguers should. As the season ended (with the Senators 47 games behind), even some of the staunchest fans were boycotting Griffith Stadium. Penny-pinching old (79) Clark Griffith, who had met similar crises in the past simply by firing the manager, knew that it would not be enough this time...