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...Postmaster General; Brownell chose Justice. As for Secretary of the Treasury, Eisenhower agreed with his advisers, including Brownell, that he should not be a "Wall Street" banker type. Banker Winthrop Aldrich, an Eisenhower supporter who was himself mentioned for the Treasury job, heartily agreed. Then General Lucius Clay suggested Industrialist George Humphrey...
...Gustav VI Adolf Lecture Fund has been established in honor of Gustav Adolf, King of Sweden, by Gustav von Rois, Detroit industrialist. It will be used for extended teaching in the Scandinavian languages, especially Swedish...
...Missouri, W. Stuart Symington ousted Republican James Kem, whose isolationist record in the Senate had been attacked by the Democrats as a national bad example. Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist (Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.) who has held five top U.S. Government posts in the past seven years (among them: Secretary of the Air Force, administrator of the RFC), is a close friend of Ike Eisenhower, can be expected to cooperate with the new President...
Married. Virginia Fortune Ryan, 19, daughter of U.S. Industrialist John B. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Banker Otto Kahn, great-granddaughter of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Lord Ogilvy, 26, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish Earldom of Airlie (two castles, one lodge, 69,000 acres) and onetime favorite escort of Princess Margaret. Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, four other members of the Royal Family and 800 guests witnessed the most glittering Anglo-American union since the 1895 marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Ninth Duke of Marlborough; in St. Margaret's Church, London...
...asked: "Me?" "Yes, sir." Farley blinked and replied: "Too much for my own good." Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's well-known poise was ruffled by persistent questions as to why she had contributed to such Communist fronts as the Youth Congress. After one session on Youth Wants to Know, Industrialist Charles Wilson asked suspiciously if the questioners were really high-school students...