Word: jr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unusual political alliance developed during the campaign. Curley has received strong support throughout the race from Russel S. Codman, Jr. '20, a Beacon Hill Republican and Boston's third largest taxplayer. Codman, Boston's Fire Commissioner, at a rally last night called on Curley's opponents to "desist from unfair and distorted charges of corruption in the Curley administration...
...least two outspoken architects thought not. Complained Philadelphia's J. Roy Carroll Jr.: "The designs for the most part are pale copies of those executed after the first World War, with the usual classic pavilion, symmetrical stairways and Grecian urns." Architect George Daub agreed: "It should have been competitive...
...Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price...
Died. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 49, U.S. industrialist (General Motors, U.S. Steel), onetime (1944-45) U.S. Secretary of State, later rector of the University of Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Greenwich, Conn, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
ROOSEVELT AND THE RUSSIANS (367 pp.) -Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-Doubledav...