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Word: nelsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Tarrytown, N.Y. at the tiller of his 1902 Anderson electric, rolled John D. Rockefeller Jr., to dedicate 17th-Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Flato 's cuff had been extended liberally to Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller ($1,320). Oth er accounts receivable: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ($585); Marlene Dietrich ($50); Gloria Laura Vanderbilt ($1,018); Gloria Swanson ($692); Mrs. Alfred G. Vander bilt ($1,096) ; Doris Duke Cromwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Probably on account of Donald Nelson, or some A1Nav or other, things look blacker than black for the Independence Day week-end. We'll be right down in the salt mines as usual from the looks of things, and with no portal to portal pay either...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

...clock to get in a few sets of tennis. On the courts of Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, he plays (lefthanded) a hard-plugging but ungraceful game with his sister or brother-in-law, Swiss Minister Charles Brugmann, occasionally matches strokes with other grade B-minus players like Nelson Rockefeller, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal or Justice Hugo Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Follow the Leader | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Others who take their exercise on horseback are Secretary of the Treasury Henry L. Morgenthau and Justice Robert H. Jackson. But the rest-men like War Mobilization Chief James F. Byrnes, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown and WPBoss Donald Nelson-take the easiest way. Like top-flight Army & Navy men, they have rediscovered walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Follow the Leader | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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