Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruce Harriman '50 of Gloucester and Kirkland House, was last night elected next year's president of the Crimson Key Society...
Also Bruce Harriman, C. Lee Hoefinghoff, James F. Hornig, Frederic D. Houghteling, Richard W. Kimball, Hale M. Knight, Robert B. Lukingbeal, William D. Mulholland, Jr., Charles A. O'Brien, Walter B. Rauschenbush, and Lyle H. Ritchie...
Sometimes, when entertaining at home with his art-collecting wife, Marie Whitney Harriman, ECA's European chief finds his guests distracted from weighty conversation. His salon is hung with a pink Renoir, a blue Picasso, a Van Gogh bowl of yellow tulips, and a Gauguin. Said one of his dinner guests, later: "God, how could I concentrate on what he was saying, with those around...
Office routine is crowded with correspondence and conferences. Harriman assigns administrative detail to others, reserves policymaking for himself. Invariably he schedules a "business lunch"; among his guests have been almost all of Europe's bigwigs. For dinner he usually invites his own aides. Noon or night, the conversation sticks to politico-economic lines; Harriman has no small talk...
...Field. Under Harriman's seasoned wing, at their stations through Europe, other ECAmericans were at work. Among them...