Word: custodians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remaining officers professed to be de lighted. "It's a pleasure to be working for Uncle Sam," cried Vice President Hugh S. Williamson. Three days later, Uncle Sam Morgenthau told his press conference that, as he interpreted the executive order, there would be no single Alien Property Custodian in this war. But the Treasury would act as custodian, via the interdepartmental (Treasury, Justice, State) committee that has been handling frozen funds. His alien property powers, insisted Henry the Morgue, were "not given to me as temporary...
...giving him an executive order). White-haired Bache lor Crowley is a busy man: he is not only Chairman of FDIC, but of huge Standard Gas & Electric, and a director or officer of eight or ten other firms. Nonetheless, he told the President he would be Alien Property Custodian too provided it were set up as an independent agency...
...producing toluene was from by-product coke ovens, which were then a bright new technological improvement over beehive ovens. Germany's Heinrich Koppers, at the instigation of U.S. Steel, had begun revolutionizing U.S. coke production with his ovens in the early 1900s. War and the Alien Property Custodian dumped his properties into U.S. hands (chiefly the Mellons') and also accounted for the growth of Koppers Co., which by war's end was putting a new U.S. coke oven into operation every 60 days, a new U.S. toluene plant every six weeks...
...meanwhile continuing a study of who owns it. Part of Aniline's troubles (and the Treasury's nervous trigger finger) are due to a jurisdictional fight between the two departments for control of alien properties. That fight will go on until Franklin Roosevelt names an Alien Property Custodian and defines his thankless duties...
...preserve the memory of those Harvard organizations which may dissolve during the war, Clifford K. Shipton, custodian of the University Archives, has requested that officers of all clubs and societies deposit their records in his office on the top floor of Widener...