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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



... American fortunes have in their making been of the utmost benefit to the whole economic organism is to my mind unquestionably the fact. Men like Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. James J. Hill, and Mr. Edward Harriman have in the course of their business careers contributed enormously to American economic efficiency. They have been overpaid for their services, but that is irrelevant to the question immediately under consideration. ...
— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly
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... attend to his Dry Valley affairs hereafter. He dictated some letters, closed his desk, and went down the street toward the City Club. At a florist's he stopped and ordered a box of American Beauties to be sent to Miss Phyllis Harriman. With these he enclosed his card, a line ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine
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... which had fallen on evil days, and Hays was offered and accepted the post at four times his salary with the Grand Trunk of $25,000 a year. A year later he was back again in Canada. There was not room in the {202} Southern Pacific for both Hays and Harriman, then in financial control, and the Grand Trunk directors seized the opportunity which the breach afforded. In 1909 the wide recognition of Mr Hays's great services led to long overdue increase of the authority of the Canadian officials ...
— The Railway Builders - A Chronicle of Overland Highways • Oscar D. Skelton
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Words linked to "Harriman" :   diplomatist, Averell Harriman, diplomat, man of affairs, Edward Henry Harriman, financier, moneyman, businessman, William Averell Harriman


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