Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until the present suspension decree, problem students were placed either in full-time institutions or in special "600" schools, which have shown gratifying results. But the five "600" schools can accomodate only 1200 students. At a recent conference with Governor Harriman, the city received assurance that it would get another six "600" schools by fall, and also that the full-time correctional facilities would be enlarged. This still falls short of what is needed and will leave about 6500 of the 9500 hard-core delinquents in regular schools...
Because New York's aging (66) Democratic Governor Averell Harriman has turned out to be a tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman...
...Young was a man of grandiose ideas and supreme self-confidence who felt it his destiny to create a great transcontinental railroad system that would put to shame the 19th century railroad empires of Harriman, Vanderbilt and Gould. The keystone would be the Central. But it was not until 1954 that he was ready to move in for the kill. Quietly he had bought up stock, then loudly bombarded the Central with newspaper ads attacking its operating policies. Gradually, he softened confidence in the Central's management until he finally captured the road with the help of a dazzling...
...Abraham Ribicoff took up the campaign in hopes of winning the votes of commuters, mostly presumed to be Republican. Furthermore, both states are pressed for cash and would like to get some of the money going to New York. The governors descended on New York's Governor Averell Harriman, another Democrat. But Harriman was cool to their heat: New York is already worried about a $20 million drop in all revenue. There may be discrimination, he agreed, but tax laws cannot be written to take into account every individual's situation." To study the situation further, the governors...
Lasker's last major purchase before his death in 1952 was one of his happiest: Vincent van Gogh's White Roses (opposite). Along with its companion piece on the same subject, owned by New York's Governor Averell Harriman, it is one of the most serene, glowing and untroubled canvases Van Gogh ever painted. It carries with it Van Gogh's sense of joyous (though temporary) release from an attack of madness that the painter described when he wrote to his brother from Saint-Rémy two months before his suicide: "That horrible attack...