Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quarterback of this team was 32-year-old Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, a good-looking Dartmouth grandson of John D. He and President Roosevelt had earnestly discussed Latin America first in 1939. Last year Nelson Rockefeller got some of his young friends to help him draft a memorandum to Franklin Roosevelt's Harry Hopkins proposing the creation of an independent agency to improve U.S.-Latin American relations. Last August Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating a branch of the Council of National Defense with the windy title of Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American...
...first six or eight months of its existence Nelson Rockefeller's office was known around Washington chiefly for its sex appeal and the brash energy of its occupant. Visitors were decorously received by a brunette bombshell with a rippling voice, ushered into a blue-leather-decorated office by a blonde vision. There they found Mr. Rockefeller ready to listen to any scheme to promote good-neighborly relations. Outside the office Mr. Rockefeller astonished official Washington by his ability to pop in & out of a dozen committee meetings a day, to write innumerable memorandums, to argue lengthily with Congressmen...
...Nelson Rockefeller's pet project, the elimination of Nazi agents from U.S. business concerns, backfired with annoying results. By last week several hundred agents had been fired by their employers. Many of them had promptly hopped off to the U.S.. sold their services to their former employers' competitors, returned to Latin America to steal business for their new firms...
...Peabody II 181 *Coles H. Phinizy 127 *John Bunker 126 *Charles S. Bridge 121 John C. Robbins, Jr. 118 John A. Holabird, Jr. 111 Keith R. Symon 110 Harry Newman, Jr. 110 James E. Meredith 107 John K. Eberie 100 William B. Parsons, Jr. 98 Harrison T. Blaine 96 Nelson J. Darling 81 Gabriel Jackson 86 Thomas Gardiner 77 Edward Ames 75 M. Greely Summers, Jr. 73 George A. Kuhn, Jr. 71 John Lowell 70 William Wesselhoeft 67 David P. Bennett 49 Peter Dammann 43 William T. Munson 41 Eugene J. Reilly 37 E. Bernard Fleischaker 35 Nathaniel S. Lehrman...
...Darling, Nelson...