Word: ingraham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study the "youth problem" last fortnight, Dr. George Frederick Zook, poker-faced Director of the American Council on Education, reassured Washington newshawks: "This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll, put up by the (Rockefeller-endowed) General Education Board...
High Chambermen, who had maintained a semblance of co-operation with the White House, pattered up & down the Chamber's corridors trying to still the storm of abuse. Henry Ingraham Harriman, outgoing president, keynoted moderately: "The chief objection is not to the basic principles underlying many of these measures but to the extremes to which they are carried." Secretary of Commerce Roper rode a herd on the impatient Chambermen, trying to prevent a stampede...
Three Public Health Fellowships in the School of Public Health were won by: Richard T. Page of Waterville, Maine; Hollis S. Ingraham '30 of Brookline; and Robert W. Ballantyne of Xenra, Ohio...
...Suicide or Revolution." The present president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce is no such old-school businessman. Born in Brooklyn 61 years ago, Henry Ingraham Harriman joined the New York Bar, went to Boston to make his fortune. He helped found New England Power Association (which developed the first major hydro-electric sites on the Connecticut River) and untangle Boston's transit tangle. Director in many a potent New England bank and industry, he owns a 200,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana, reads Greek for relaxation. He has been close to the New Deal from...
...annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Behind the Chambermen and their fellow capitalists lay a year of solid recovery. In 1933 they had assembled with their hearts in their throats and despair in their hearts. Last week their hearts were almost back to normal. President Henry Ingraham Harriman keynoted on "American Progress under American Methods...