Word: rumsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Johnson's elbow Mr. Harriman met an old acquaintance: his sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, passionate New Dealer, who at the instance of her good friend Madam Secretary Perkins, enjoys the chairmanship of NRA's consumers' advisory board, and has become a favorite with the General. Sister Mary founded the Junior League at the turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers...
...experience in public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor James Rumsey Beverley, found it difficult to understand Governor Gore's blunt and open manner. He sought to gain popularity by legalizing cockfighting throughout the island (he signed the bill with a tailfeather-see cut) but got only a few scattered cheers. Opposition to his methods arose in the Independence wing of the Liberal Party...
...Arms-The price-fixing squabble grew so noisy that the din passed beyond conference-room walls. Percy Straus's sidelong argument that retail selling should be a balanced function which, when efficiently performed, passes along price benefits to the consumer, reached the ears of Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, head of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Committee. She perked up her ears and flatly denounced the whole fair practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss" was price-fixing...
What Vincent Astor does not know about publishing magazines would doubtless fill the logbook of his yacht Nourmahal. What William Averell Harriman does not know about it would fill the minute-book of his Union Pacific board of directors. Mr. Harriman's sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairlady of the NRA Consumers Advisory Board, once backed a friend, William Johnson, in an ambitious but unsuccessful Editors' Feature Service (newspaper syndicate), but she is no editorial genius. Neither, for popular purposes, is Raymond Moley, criminologist, economist and erstwhile chief of President Roosevelt's Brain Trust, whose resignation therefrom...
...Washington lineup. Vincent Astor, rich young Roosevelt friend, took Dr. Moley off the Administration's hands by opportunely announcing plans for a 5? political weekly (as yet unnamed) and making the outgoing Assistant Secretary of State its editor. Other sponsors of the magazine were Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, NRA Consumer Board chief, her brother William Averell Harriman, Union Pacific board chairman, and Virgil V. McNitt of McNaught Syndicate who was to be executive editor. The weekly will support and expound the New Deal's politics and economics "in plain square-toed English,'"' according to Publisher Astor...