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...finance research and advertising for Progressive Education, P. E. A. needed money. It did not need to look outside its own group, for one of its members was gentle, modest Mrs. Avery Coonley, daughter of Capitalist Dexter Mason Ferry (Ferry Seeds), who was running a little Progressive school in Downer's Grove, Ill. Watered by Mrs. Coonley's gifts, P. E. A. flourished and Progressive Education burst into bloom...
...latter because his deceased first wife was Mrs. Roosevelt's aunt and because he was Democratic treasurer in the last campaign. An investment banker by trade, Mr. Morgan went to Washington in 1933 as deputy governor of the Farm Credit Administration, met & married 23-year-old Sarah Jackson Coonley whose father was secretary of the Democratic National Committee...
...Guaranty Trust Co., for the last six months a member of the NRA staff. ¶ A "Division of Review" (to gather statistics) was put in charge of Leon C. Marshall, member of the late NIRB. ¶ A "Division of Business Cooperation" (voluntary codes) was headed by Prentiss I. Coonley, ex-pipe-fitting manufacturer, recently assistant to Donald Richberg. ¶ As assistant NRAdministrator, George L. Berry of the A. F. of L. and member of the late NIRB was appointed. ¶ Created to give advice was a council consisting of old NRA workers: Charles Edison, Philip Murray. William Green, Walton...
Married. William Forbes Morgan, 49, Farm Credit Administration personnel director, uncle by marriage of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Sarah Jackson Coonley, 23, daughter of Secretary Robert Jackson of the Democratic National Committee; in Washington...
...third, "non-partisan" stockholders' committee. He too called for proxies. His committee, said the Governor, was best qualified to judge the merits of the controversy. It included Lessing Julius Rosenwald, potent vice board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., William Benson Mayo, onetime chief of Ford aircraft construction. President Howard Coonley of Boston's Walworth Co. (valves), three airline organizers. Promptly Mr. Cord piped up: "Ex-Governor Trumbull was one of the principals in the ... sale of Colonial Airways to the Aviation Corp. . . . His principal associate in this deal, John F. O'Ryan, is an officer and director of the Aviation...