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...years later, Carrier set up his own company with $35,000 capital. Soon he was providing equipment for candymaking plants, dusty tobacco factories, textile mills, the film industry and hotels.' Not till the Depression did Cloud Wampler appear on the scene. Wampler, a Knox College (Ill.) graduate, was a successful investment banker with Chicago's Lawrence Stern & Co., specializing in real estate; one of his tenants in Chicago was Carrier Corp. When Carrier, hard hit by hard times, asked for a rent reduction Wampler coldly replied that the company needed a lot more than that. He became financial...
...from Northwestern, entered law practice in Chicago. In 1933 he went to Washington as special counsel to the administrator of the new Agricultural Adjustment Act. Returned to law practice in Chicago in 1935, went back to Washington in 1941 to be special assistant to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, a Republican. Later served as a special assistant to two Secretaries of State, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. Handled press relations at the San Francisco United Nations Conference, later was senior adviser to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly...
...Franks pulled on a topcoat over his pink pajamas and, along with Lady Franks and their two daughters, hurried out to watch a $10,000 fire raze a tool shed on the embassy grounds. The fireside group was soon joined by a neighbor, New Zealand's Ambassador Leslie Knox Munro, who for the occasion wore striped pajamas and a loud Paisley bathrobe...
Hallanan has not always been a trusted Taft lieutenant. Just after Taft was defeated by Dewey in the 1948 convention, one of Taft's most important and consistent supporters gave this description of the West Virginian: "Hallanan was a double-crosser. He double-crossed Frank Knox in 1936. He double-crossed us in 1940. We didn't trust him, but he had a hell of a row with Dewey in 1940, and we thought that would hold him. This time he went through to the last day, and then, when the going got tough, he went over...
...Knox College...