Word: pierson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warren Lee Pierson, 58, succeeded Belgium's Camille Gutt as president of the International Chamber of Commerce. Globe-hopping board chairman of Trans World Airlines since 1947, Pierson has been an effective advocate of lower tariffs and reciprocal trade as head of the ICC's United States Council. He was a World War I artillery lieutenant in France, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1922, served the Government as RFC counsel (1933)) president of the Export-Import Bank (1936-44), and U.S. delegate to the 1951-52 conference on Germany's $6 billion foreign debt. As 17th...
Married. Ann Clark Rockefeller, 20, Wellesley senior and elder daughter of Under Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Nelson A. Rockefeller; and the Rev. Robert Laughlin Pierson, 29, Episcopal clergyman; in New York City...
...Pierson Dixon. Britain's permanent representative to the United Nations, had company for lunch at Wave Hill, his handsome Hudson River residence in Riverdale. just north of Manhattan. Gathered under fragrantly flowering linden trees one balmy day last week were three of the free world's shapers of foreign policy: Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, France's Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...tenth anniversary ceremonies in San Francisco, but before the birthday party, Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay had to discuss a puzzling problem in world diplomacy: the true reason for the Communists' sudden switch from cold-warriors to peace-shouters. Standing in Sir Pierson's paneled library. Dulles gave the U.S. evaluation of what had caused the Kremlin to accept an Austrian treaty that was less favorable than the one it had rejected out of hand a year before, and to go to Belgrade "to walk on glass...
...Crimson losses did not affect the race for the Harkness Trophy. Adams' softball team, unbeaten House champions, bowed to Pierson College, 14 to 6. In baseball, Winthrop, co-winner with Leverett in the House league and sporting a 5-1-1 record, was soundly trounced by Yale's Berkeley by a 13-4 score. Leverett was unable to field a team for the New Haven trip so Winthrop represented the College...