Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might become Democratic Secretary of State and launch a "soft" policy on Berlin. Throbbing with suspicion, Adenauer fortnight ago sent his press chief, Felix von Eckhardt, to the U.S. to sound out Adlai's chances. (Eckhardt's conclusion, after seeing Kennedy, Stevenson, former New York Governor Averell Harriman, and "using my ears, not my mouth": nobody knows right...
...National Democratic Club luncheon in Manhattan, Kennedy and his hosts, New York's Democratic leaders, were all smiles and compliments. One after another, the bigwigs pledged their support. "His strength," said Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, "has continued to magnify itself." And former Governor Averell Harriman (involved in a backstage battle with New York's Mayor Wagner for leadership of the delegation to the convention) sounded agreement. "Almost all of us think you will do more good for our party if you get the nomination, particularly in New York State." As the lunch turned into a love...
Many Yalemen attribute their collections more to a healthy inheritance than to a love of art fostered by their alma mater. Says Averell Harriman, '13: "My interest in painting was not born at Yale. I was exposed to good art all my life." Harriman acquired Henri Rousseau's Rendezvous dans la Foret from a dealer in Paris in 1935; the dealer had bought it from a washerwoman to whom Rousseau had given the painting in payment for her services. Several alumni have lent a number of works to the show; Industrialist Stephen C. Clark, '03, donated...
...that I have here today a concrete example of Soviet espionage so that you can see for yourself." Out came a large carved wooden plaque representing the Great Seal of the United States. In 1945 a group of Russians had presented it to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow. Averell Harriman, who hung it over the desk in his study. Opening it like a book, Lodge disclosed that its hinged insides harbored a tiny metallic cylinder with a slender metallic antenna. Lodge explained that it was a "clandestine listening device" used by the Russians to listen in on ambassadorial conversations...
...began to see signs "that Stevenson was still embarrassed by this farmer from Missouri." For this reason, he decided to make it easy for "Stevenson to dissociate himself from me politically." And for this reason alone, says Truman, he swung his support to New York's Governor Averell Harriman. "Any ties that Stevenson thought he had with me, or thought it expedient to have with me, were now effectively severed. Any political liability he fancied I represented to his cause was now removed...