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People (2)

  • E. Roland Harriman E. Roland Harriman, Averell Harriman's brother, chaired the Union Pacific from 1946 to 1969, led the American Red Cross from 1950 to 1973, and held 3,991 of the 4,000 Union Banking shares vested in 1942.
  • Whitney family New England family whose New York fortune joined William C. Whitney's street railways to the Payne share of Standard Oil, whose members belonged to Skull and Bones, and whose trust recurs in CIA-linked records.

Organizations (1)

  • Brown Brothers Harriman Private New York partnership bank formed January 1, 1931 from Brown Brothers & Co. and two Harriman firms, whose partners made the Nicaragua loans of 1911 and 1912 and filled senior Washington posts.