Replies to post #331898 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[hap0206]

no, I do not believe there is a democrat in congress that wants to open that bag of worms

(it is just good for bushbashing) -- huge LOL
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War seizures controversy
While Averell Harriman served as Senior Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, who had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but who by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Adolf Hitler. Business transactions for profit with Nazi Germany were not illegal when Hitler declared war on the US, but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.S. companies were doing business with the declared enemy of the United States. On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City.

The Harriman business interests seized under the act in October and November 1942 included:

o Union Banking Corporation (UBC) (for Thyssen and Brown Brothers Harriman).
o Holland-American Trading Corporation (with Harriman)
o the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation (with Harriman)
o Silesian-American Corporation (this company was partially owned by a German entity; during the war the Germans tried to take the full control of Silesian-American. In response to that, American government seized German owned minority shares in the company, leaving the U.S. partners to carry on the business.)

The assets were held by the government for the duration of the war, then returned afterward. UBC was dissolved in 1951.
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Summary of career
Vice President, Union Pacific Railroad Co., 1915-1917
Director, Illinois Central Railroad Co., 1915-1946
Member, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, 1915-1954
Chairman, Merchant Shipbuilding Corp.,1917-1925
Chairman, W. A. Harriman & Company, 1920-1931
Partner, Soviet Georgian Manganese Concessions, 1925-1928
Chairman, executive committee, Illinois Central Railroad, 1931-1942
Senior partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 1931-1946
Chairman, Union Pacific Railroad, 1932-1946
Co-founded Today magazine with Vincent Astor, 1935-1937 (merged with Newsweek in 1937)
Administrator and Special Assistant, National Recovery Administration, 1934-1935
Founded, Sun Valley Ski Resort, Idaho, 1935-1936
Chairman, Business Advisory Council, 1937-1939
Chief, Materials Branch & Production Division, Office of Production Management, 1941
US Ambassador & Special Representative to the Prime Minister of Britain, 1941-1943
Chairman, Ambassador & Special Representative of the US President's Special Mission to the USSR, 1941-1943
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1943-1946
US Ambassador, Britain, 1946
US Secretary of Commerce, 1946-1948
United States Coordinator, European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), 1948-1950
Special Assistant to the US President, 1950-1952
US Representative and Chairman, North Atlantic Commission on Defense Plans, 1951-1952
Director, Mutual Security Agency, 1951-1953
Candidate, Democratic nomination for US President, 1952
Governor, State of New York, 1955-1958
Candidate, Democratic nomination for US President, 1956
US Ambassador-at-large, 1961
United States Deputy Representative, International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian, 1961-1962
Assistant US Secretary of State, Far Eastern Affairs, 1961-1963
Special Representative to the US President, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963
Under US Secretary of State, Political Affairs, 1963-1965
US Ambassador-at-large, 1965-1969
Chairman, President's Commission of the Observance of Human Rights Year, 1968
Personal Representative of the US President, Peace Talks with North Vietnam, 1968-1969
Chairman, Foreign Policy Task Force, Democratic National Committee, 1976
Member, American Academy of Diplomacy Charter, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations, Knights of Pythias, Skull and Bones Society, Psi Upsilon Fraternity and the Jupiter Island Club.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman

[sortagreen]

Not likely because the really, really big fish in that pond was a democrat

Assuming this Harriman did work with the Nazis as Prescott Bush did, did he and his family go on to lead the Democratic party?

Now I know Prescott Bush wasn't prosecuted for collaborating with the enemy here in the states, but he was stripped of his companies and wealth in England under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Perhaps Harriman was as well?

I only know that you're defending a Nazi collaborator indeed an important Nazi financier, by saying someone else did it too. Bravo. Next you'll explain how the people who attacked us on 9/11 own lots of politicians, not just the Bush family.

You're pathetic traitor.