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Tradition Smasher. Gary had not only let the empire shrink; its plants had grown antiquated. To scurf the rust, the House of Morgan brought in Lawyer Myron C. Taylor, who had made $20 million, while still a young man, by putting rickety textile firms back on their feet. Taylor paid off $340 million of Big Steel's bonded debt just before the 1929 crash, thus enabling it to live through the depression, when-for the first time-it lost money. Taylor modernized equipment and, more importantly, changed Big Steel's labor relations...
...answer to a question, twisting the gold masonic ring on the little finger of his left hand. The question was: Why had he nominated General Mark Clark to be U.S. ambassador to the Vatican? Slowly, the President answered that he had studied the matter ever since January 1950, when Myron...
...Information." Not until 1939 did the U.S. re-establish formal contact with the Papacy. Franklin Roosevelt sent Episcopalian Myron Taylor to the Vatican as his personal representative. When Taylor resigned in January 1950, the post was not filled, and Vatican officials often made it clear that they were intensely unhappy about this lapse. When asked to comment on events in the U.S., they were inclined to reply somewhat peevishly: "We have no information on anything that goes on in America...
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...Myron P. Gilmore, associate professor of History, has taken over the chairmanship of the Department of History and Literature. He succeeds Elliott Perkins '23, who resigned over the summer after a long and successful career as chairman...