Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balliol College, he was apt to be heavily engaged in a bull session. Later he got his Ph.D. at Yale and taught economics at Columbia before spending 32 wartime months abroad, ending up as an O.S.S. major in bombing intelligence. On that assignment he got to know W. Averell Harriman, who as U.S. Ambassador later sat on the committee that elected Rostow to the Harmsworth post...
...fast-dealing week for AVCO and a turning point in its short (17 years), fantastic, often odorous history. Germinated by the wild enthusiasm for anything with wings that followed Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, AVCO sprouted from gilt-edged seed (Lehman Brothers; Brown Bros., Harriman and Co., etc.) in March 1929, as a holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction...
...Commerce-W. Averell Harriman for Henry Wallace (gain...
...Harry Truman sent word from his yacht that he had picked affable W. (for William) Averell Harriman, his Ambassador to London, the wartime Ambassador to Moscow, as his Secretary of Commerce...
After the surprise, there were general cheers. After all, rich Averell Harriman had some acquaintance with business (Union Pacific Railroad, Wall Street, etc.) even if it had been largely in the coupon-clipping area. He had been at most of the major international conferences from the Atlantic Charter meeting to Potsdam and Paris. He had grave doubts about "Russian cooperation," and he strongly backed Jimmy Byrnes's "get tough" policy...