Word: oss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temper of Chairman Cary, 50, a Yaleman ('31) and onetime (1938-40) SEC counsel, who was plucked from his job as a Columbia law professor by President Kennedy last February to head the SEC. A Phi Beta Kappa with a staunch New Deal background, Cary served with the OSS in Rumania and Yugoslavia during World War II. No stranger to the Wall Street whirl, he worked part time during his Columbia days as special counsel to a Wall Street law firm...
During World War II, he joined the OSS, helped nail the famous Nazi spy, "Cicero" (who was memorialized in the movie Five Fingers). In 1950 "Beedle" Smith called Dulles to Washington for what was supposed to be a six-months' tour of duty. He never left...
...first, Goldberg was a young corporation lawyer, but after representing the Newspaper Guild in a strike against Hearst in 1938, he became a labor specialist. (During the war he served with distinction as the OSS contact with Europe's underground labor movement.) In 1948 Goldberg committed himself to the labor movement when the late Phil Murray made him general counsel of the Steelworkers' union. At the wedding of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. in 1955, he was one of the main marriage brokers. Since then, he has become special counsel (and ex officio policy adviser) to the A.F.L...
...backing provision would be a logical step in the further improvement of our international monetary framework." Alexander's proposal came when the flight of gold from the U.S., caused by a worsening balance of U.S. payments, was approaching a crisis. The Treasury Department announced last week that the oss of gold in November was the biggest he U.S. has ever sustained, reached nearly $500 million for the month to raise the years loss to more than $1.5 billion, almost all of it in 1960's second half So serious was the situation that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson...
Died. Rudolph Charles von Ripper, 55, Austrian-born artist best known for his savage, Goyaesque, anti-Nazi etchings of the 1930s. and courageous soldier of fortune who was wounded many times while serving in the French Foreign Legion, Spanish Loyalist air force. U.S. Army and the OSS; of a heart attack; in Pol-lensa, Majorca...