Word: polk
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...grain and feed merchant in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He did not attend the best Eastern prep schools, had worked his way through Vanderbilt University, saved enough to go on to Yale Law School. He had not been trained to be a banker, joined the Manhattan law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed as a promising trainee, did so well that he became a partner...
...nine Presidents who preserved perfect veto records throughout their terms handed down a total of only 86 vetoes: Washington (2), Madison (7), Monroe (1), Jackson (12), Polk (3), Buchanan (7), Lincoln (6), McKinley (42), Harding...
Died. James G. Polk, 62, Democratic Congressman from Ohio's sixth district (1931-40, and since 1949), who described himself in the Congressional Directory as "one of the few members of Congress whose sole occupation is farming"; of cancer; in Washington...
Besides Bledsoe, the other founders of Arlington Books include Arthur B. Silverman, associate editor, and William R. Polk '51, research fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, senior editor. Assisting these there is a board of 35 advisers, including six Harvard professors. Five Faculty members serve on a smaller board of editors...
...blooded banker once associated with the idea of Morgan & Co. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., son of a grain and feed merchant, went to Vanderbilt ('23) and Yale Law School. He worked on Morgan affairs as a partner of the giant Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk, so impressed J. P. Morgan Jr. that he became a Morgan partner in 1939. He became chairman in 1955, with a reputation for topflight banking and for building Morgan's staff. In line with Morgan's new look, Alexander does a lot of traveling, tells prospects: "When...