Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...
...captain was mortally wounded; the ship's doctor and pharmacist's mate were dead. Another hit demolished a rear turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple of chaps that way." With...
Adams, William D. Mulholland, Jr. '50; Dunster, Charles R. Brynteson '50; Eliot, Albert B. Carter, Jr. '59; Kirkland, Patrick B. McCormick '50; Leverett, D. Broward Craig '50; Lowell, David C. Poskanzer...
This year's seniors will be the first ever to permit the College to spend the interest which the gift will earn from year to year, David T. W. McCord '21, chairman of the Fund Council, said yesterday. Interest on the traditional $100,000 gift usually amounts to $25,000 over the 25-year period...
Adams. William D. Mulholland, Jr. '50; Dunster, Charles R. Brynteson '50 Eliot, Albert B. Carter, Jr. '59; Kirkland Patrick B. McCormick '50; Leverett D. Broward Craig '50; Lowell, David C. Poskanzer...