Word: mcchesney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work at Bogota, there will be top-flight statesmen on the job. Crisis-harried George Marshall will head the U.S. delegation, with Cabinet-rank support from Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Export-Import Bank Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. will be there, and John J. McCloy, World Bank president, though not a delegate, plans to be on hand. The diplomatic backfield will be sparked by Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Norman Armour...
Divorced. By Bettine Field Goodall, 24, daughter of Publisher Marshall Field (Chicago Sun, Manhattan tabloid PM): Dr. McChesney Goodall Jr., 30; after five years, one child; in Reno, two months after brother Marshall's divorce...
...Government financial institutions last week got transfusions of fresh blood. To the $10,000-a-year chairmanship of the Export-Import Bank, fellow Missourian Harry Truman named boyish, earnest William McChesney Martin Jr., 39, onetime Wonder Child of Wall Street. The $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1938 to 1941, Martin was drafted into the Army as a private. By war's end he was a full colonel...
...years ago sober, scholarly William McChesney Martin left his $48,000-a-year job as president of the New York Stock Exchange, entered the Army at $21 a month. Private Bill Martin learned that a man who had worked 18 hours a day in civilian life (as he had) could climb fast in the Army. Painstakingly he learned to shoot a rifle, even tried to pay the Government for extra practice ammunition. In his tent at nights, he studied military histories, textbooks on strategy...
Back in the U.S. after 14 months in Australia (where he won the D.F.C.). Lieut. John T. McChesney described the first bombing raid of his squadron. On the first run over the Jap transport one rookie bombardier opened the wrong doors, dropped cots, mosquito nets, pineapple juice. Second time over he was so excited he dropped nothing. Third time he unloaded all the bombs and the bomb bay gasoline tank, too. All missed...