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People (4)

  • 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.
  • Knight Woolley Knight Woolley, Yale 1917 and Skull and Bones member, general manager of Harriman Brothers & Co. and partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, named in Union Banking Corporation and 1933 Silesian Steel correspondence.
  • Prescott Bush Investment banker and Republican senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963, a Yale 1917 member of Skull and Bones named as a shareholder in the 1942 vesting of the Thyssen-linked Union Banking Corporation.
  • W. Averell Harriman W. Averell Harriman, a Skull and Bones member and Brown Brothers Harriman partner, chaired Union Pacific, ran Lend-Lease in London, served as ambassador to Moscow and London, Secretary of Commerce and governor of New York.

Events (1)

  • World War II World War II (1939-1945) produced the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the postwar recruitment of German scientists and intelligence officers.