Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banker. John Wesley Snyder, the banker, was RFC loan administrator in St. Louis, where he applied himself to becoming a better banker and a more learned man. He got his reward in 1940 when Jesse Jones called him to Washington to become executive vice president of the Defense Plant Corp. He left after a row with Jones, went back to St. Louis and the vice presidency of the First National Bank. Then one day his friend Harry Truman telephoned him that Franklin Roosevelt had just died. "John," said a shaky Harry Truman, "you'll have to come up here...
...President asked close friend John Snyder for a suggestion. The Secretary of the Treasury consulted an assistant, influential Under Secretary O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner. Then the White House announced the new Director: 39-year-old James E. Webb, protege of North Carolina's onetime Governor Gardner...
...Appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to carry out the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry for admission of 100,000 displaced European Jews to Palestine. Members: Secretary of State Byrnes, Secretary of War Patterson, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder...
...Unanimously confirmed presidential pal John W. Snyder to be Secretary of the Treasury, and natty, conscientious John L. Sullivan to be Under Secretary of the Navy (the job Ed Pauley wanted...
Harry Truman well knew that organized labor would never forget that it was Snyder who urged him into his hasty draft-labor proposal. But Mr. Truman is fiercely loyal to his friends. Cried the New Dealing New York Post: "It is doubtful whether John Snyder could do as much harm in his new post...