Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading the thoroughly documented data attached, I trust you will find means to quash this most inappropriate nomination. Sincerely, Archibald B. Roosevelt...
...this year's Yale game, the Alumni Association's Committee to Nominate Candidates for Overseers met in Boston and worked out a ten man slate that included the name of United Nations Under-Secretary Ralphe Bunche. Three months later, when the list had been published, Archibald B. Roosevelt '17 (son of T.R.) dispatched a long letter (see box) to President Pusey, expressing his horror at reading of Bunche's candidacy for the Board of Overseers, and urging Pusey to "find means to quash this most inappropriate nomination...
...When I see a motorboat coming," says one shaky sailor from Baltimore, "I say to myself, I am a sailboat; I have the right of way. Then I get the hell out of there." Investment Banker Julian K. Roosevelt (of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) recalls the day on Long Island Sound when a power boat pulled alongside his father's 60-ft. schooner Mistress. The intruder bellowed: "Hey, Mac! Which way to port Jefferson?" Says Roosevelt with deep satisfaction: "I answered him in his own way and said, 'First turn to your right, Mac!'" Harrumphs a fellow...
Like a battalion deploying for battle, a crowd of nearly 1,000 surged through Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel last week as formal bargaining opened between the steel industry and the United Steelworkers Union. So numerous were the advisers, statisticians, supernumeraries and just plain hangers-on that the cost to management and labor was estimated at nearly $25,000 a day. President Eisenhower tried to set the tone for negotiations by warning again that both sides must show "good sense and some wisdom" to avoid an inflationary wage hike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But both sides had hardly started negotiating when...
Died. Myron C. Taylor, 85, industrialist, philanthropist, representative to the Vatican for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Ready to retire at 50 from a successful business career as a textile executive, Taylor was launched on a second career by his friend J. P. Morgan, who urged him to go to work for U.S. Steel. He cleared the corporation of a $340 million bonded debt in time to withstand the Depression. Famed for his diplomacy in labor relations, Episcopalian Taylor was appointed F.D.R.'s special envoy to the Vatican in 1939, a post he served...