Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Private Gordon Gray had been in the Army only a week when he had a gripe. Bedbugs, he complained to the supply sergeant at Fort Bragg, were making his life miserable. The sergeant met the problem with soldierly calm, promptly issued Private Gray a special weapon: one Flit gun, loaded. That was Gordon Gray's first lesson in military supply. He went on learning, first as a wartime infantry captain, then as Assistant Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that...
...Trustee. A second choice but a first-rate man, Gordon Gray is an heir to part of the ripe, golden R. J. Reynolds tobacco (Camels) fortune. His father put young Gordon to work in the leaf houses and at the cigarette machines, but Gordon didn't like the tobacco business. At the University of North Carolina he was No. 1 in his class, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he was an editor of the Law Journal. After a few years of practice as a lawyer in New York and Winston-Salem, he headed a group which...
Next Monday, still another "drafted" professor will leave Harvard to do a job for the government overseas. He is Lincoin Gordon '33, professor of Government and Administration at the Business School. Gordon, who has spent almost two years working out details of ERP, will fly to Paris to begin a year's assignment as head of the program division in the European headquarters...
Before the war, Gordon worked about nine months with the National Resources Planning Board on water and power resources. During the war, he was with the War Production Board, ending in 1945 as program vice-chairman. In the latter half of 1946, he was a member of the U.S. delegation on the UN Atomic Energy Commission...
From July, 1947 to the spring of 1948 Gordon was "almost full time" consultant with the State Department, working on ERP. In August, 1948, he was special assistant to Ambassador Harriman in Paris ECA headquarters...