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Harriman   /hˈɛrɪmən/   Listen
Harriman

noun
1.
United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986).  Synonyms: Averell Harriman, William Averell Harriman.
2.
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909).  Synonyms: E. H. Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman.






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"Harriman" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the moment the drama staged at Dallas. Mrs. I. Borden Harriman of New York is presiding over the commission. Mrs. Levi Stewart, the wife of a tenant farmer, is on the witness stand. Mrs. Stewart is a shrinking little woman with "faded eyes and broken body." She wears a blue sunbonnet. Her dress of checkered material has lost its color from long use. ...
— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry

... possessing an apparently unimpaired capital. This was evidenced by the magnitude of the enterprises he engaged in, such as, for instance, Panama Mail, by sheer weight of money and fighting power wresting the control away from Shiftily and selling out in two months to the Harriman interests at ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London

... all know how when the political tricksters were compelled to frame a direct primary law in New York they fixed the ballot so that it botched the election. Corporations have been known to do just that to their reports. Did not E. H. Harriman say of a well-known statistician that he could make an annual report tell any story you pleased? Still subtler is the seven-foot ballot of stupid, good intentions—the hyperdemocratic ballot in which you are asked to vote for the State ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... Banks of Massachusetts, Palmer and Farnsworth of Illinois, Negley, Geary, Hartranft and Collis of Pennsylvania, Cochrane, Barnum and Barlow of New York, Chamberlain from Maine, Schenck and Cox from Ohio, Duncan and Harriman from New Hampshire, Daniel McCauley of Indiana, and many of their fellow-officers, took active and zealous part in the convention. Every loyal State except possibly Oregon was represented. Far-off California and Nevada, then without the facility of railway connection, sent ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine



Words linked to "Harriman" :   diplomat, man of affairs, William Averell Harriman, diplomatist, businessman, financier, moneyman, Edward Henry Harriman



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