Word: crowley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration with businessmen and conservatives, such as he had available. Although the views of Messrs. Harriman & Stettinius are more New Dealish than those of most U.S. industrialists, the President in 1944 will be able to point to them, as well as to Businessmen Frank Knox, Jesse Jones, Leo Crowley, James V. Forrestal, Bernard Baruch, Donald Nelson, Chester Bowles, Robert A. Lovett, as representatives in the administration of the business viewpoint. (To Conservatives he can point out Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, the Southern Democrats-and he can always manage to get rid of New Dealers *Harry Hopkins...
...reasonably sure thing was that college football this fall would be worth watching. Many of the name coaches (Harvard's Dick Harlow, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, Fordham's Sleepy Jim Crowley, Iowa's Hunk Anderson) had gone into the services. The old hands still on the job were short of time if not talent, would have a hard time putting together the kind of precision machine that football fans had been accustomed to watching. Especially to new coaches, who saw a chance to make a quick reputation, the possibilities of a wide-open game, full...
Winner of the cross-country event was Joseph R. Crowley, who ran the 3.7 miles in 19 minutes, 25 seconds, while second was Duncan C. Blanchard, who finished...
...decided firmly not to understand. This week Leo T. Crowley, new U.S. Director of Economic Warfare, sent a letter to 16,000 American exporters, clamping economic sanctions on Argentina. All licenses for exports to that country issued since May 1, 1943 have been studied to make sure that no goods will be reshipped to Axis powers, Crowley's letter abruptly revoked every license issued before that date, announced that none would be reissued until the same scrutiny is made. The order halted virtually all trade with Argentina, which depends heavily on the U.S. for the oil, machinery and machinery...
Jesse Jones's RFC had lost a few branches which deal in foreign purchases. Along with the remnants of BEW, these now become the new Office of Economic Warfare, headed by the Administration's oldtime trouble shooter, able Leo T. Crowley. But Jesse Jones will control the purse strings. And Leo Crowley, 53, is a friend who keeps an autographed photo of Jesse Jones behind his desk...