Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter he settled comfortably down into the job of Under Secretary of the Treasury, asked to be excused from serving as a member of the British-American commission on Palestine. Now Max Gardner may have to grapple with that problem...
After weeks of mulling over the biggest vacancy in his diplomatic corps-the ambassadorship to Britain-Harry Truman made up his mind. The man he picked for the job: conservative, 64-year-old O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner, a safe, uncolorful candidate whom the Senate was likely to confirm with little or no fuss...
From a law practice in Shelby, N.C., Gardner swam naturally into Democratic politics. In 1929 he became North Carolina's governor. To the horror of local Southern politicos, he once had himself photographed at a rally with a Negro girl who had won an essay contest...
...corporation lawyer, became a friend of Franklin Roosevelt. Among Government jobs he faithfully served at: adviser on the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Board. Among jobs he was mentioned for but did not take: president of the New York Stock Exchange, governor of Puerto Rico. Max Gardner, big. pink and amiable, does not stick his neck...
...decade ago, spectacled, aggressive Gardner ("Mike") Cowles likes to recall, "I, personally, started Look, and devoted a whale of a lot of time to it. I was the works, and I really ran everything." But for most of that decade, the picture magazine he sired was run by others. It saw its founding father only in the little time he could take from running the family's Des Moines Register & Tribune and radio stations, and working as a top OWI executive...