Word: harrie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While he had great financial success, E. H. Harriman was not received into the highest social and political circles of his time. Theodore Roosevelt included Harri man among his "malefactors of great wealth." Such criticism hurt E. H. Harri man. He wanted to be accepted. In Vienna he once plaintively deplored the fact that he had not been received by Emperor Franz Joseph. Said he: "I am in a position to realize the magnitude of this monarch's task ... I feel sorry that arrangements have not been made to allow my being presented to the Emperor, whom I dare...
...pragmatist. "If in five years," says he, "somebody finds a way to build that is so much more wonderful that he wants to tear the U.N. down and rebuild it, why, let him." Five years is a long time in the frenetic world of New York real estate, but Harri son's offer is not likely to be taken up, at any rate within that time limit, for two good reasons: 1) U.N. cost too much to tear down, and 2) even the skeptics are getting used to its sharp, clean slab along the edge of the Manhattan skyline...