Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Godkin Lectures, established in 1903, honor the memory of Edwin L. Godkin, British-American journalist of the 19th century, who founded "The Nation" and edited the New York Evening Post. Recent Godkin Lecturers have been Hugh Gaitskill, John Lord O'Brian, Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy and U.S. Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont...
...fund was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, founder of "The Nation" and editor of the New York Evening Post, to provide yearly lectures on "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers have included Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont; Harold E. Stassen, and last year, Chester W. Bowles, former U.S. Ambassador to India...
...Godkin Lectures honor the memory of Edwin L. Godkin, British-American journalist of the 19th century who founded The Nation and edited the New York Evening Post. Recent lecturers have included Adlai Stevenson, Harold E. Stassen, and John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany...
...with its other avowed task in Egypt, clearing the Suez Canal. Late last week the first of a fleet of Dutch and Danish salvage vessels began to move toward Egypt. To handle financing of the estimated $40 million clearance operations, Hammarskjold called on Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. To oversee technical operations, he drafted Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. For the 71-year-old Wheeler, canals are an old story. As one of his first Army assignments he took part in the construction of the Panama Canal...
...more. It was in need itself, had to sell its bonds on U.S. securities markets to raise the money for loans. But foreign bonds were almost unsalable; so many foreign issues had defaulted in the '30s that more than 40 states restricted the purchase of foreign bonds. What McCloy needed was a good bond salesman, someone who could tell the story of what the bank was trying to do. His man was Gene Black, then 49, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, and a salesman of rare talents. Within a year...