WILLIAM AVERALL HARRIMAN  (S&B 1913)
*  Married 3 times -
    1. 1915 - Kitty Lanier Lawrence
    2. 1930 - Marie Norton Whitney
    3. 1971 - Pamela Churchill Hayward, formerly married to Randolph Churchill.
*  Skull & Bones member (Ini. 1913)
*  1913 - Stared with Father's Union Pacific RR.
*  1917 - Organized Merchant Shipbuilding Corp.  Sold all interest in 1925.
*  1917 - Dir. of Guaranty Trust - Family holding of about 1/3 of Guaranty stock put into J.P. Morgan
    voting trust in 1912. (Bk-44, 129)
*  1919 - Est. W. A. Harriman & Co. with brother Edward Roland Harriman and George Herbert
    Walker.  (Bk-44, 130) (Bk-43, 567)
*  1920 - W.A. Harriman & Co. - American Ship & Commerce Co. - Held contractual power over
    Hamburg-America through a secret arrangement and credits arranged by George Herbert Walker, the
    Harriman enterprise aquired Germany's Hamburg-America steamship line which had been confiscated
    by the U.S. at the end of the First World War. Then, Harriman sold it back to Germany at 50% profit
    over the next 20 years as it became the world's largest private shipping line. 
*  1922 - While in Berlin, set up the Berlin branch of W.A. Harriman & Co. under George Herbert
    Walker's presidency. At this time he first met with Fritz Thyssen. (Bk-43, 568, 571)
*  1923 - Formed Georgian Manganese Co. (Bk-44, 130)
*  1924 - Set up Union Banking Corp., as a unit in the Manahatten offices of W.A. Harriman & Co.,
    interlocking with the Thyssen owned Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BHS) in the netherlands.
    (Bk-43, 571)
*  1929 - Harriman bank bought up and reorganized Dresser Industries. (Bk-43, 618)
*  1933 - W.A. Harriman & Co. merged with Brown Brothers (Alexander Brown founded in 1800).
    to become Brown Bros. Harriman. (Bk-44, 130)
*  May, 1933 - Harriman International Co. , led by Averall's first cousin Oliver, headed a syndicate of 150
    firms and people to conduct all exports from Germany to the U.S.  (Bk-43, 575)
*  1934 - Special Assistant Admin. of Roosevelt's National Recovery Act.
*  1941 - Minister to Great Britain in charge of Lend-Lease for Britain & Russia.
*  1941 - Ambassador to the Soviet Union
*  1946 - Ambassador to Great Britain
*  1948 - U.S. Representative to ECA in Europe.
*  1950 - U.S. Representative at NATO defense meetings.
*  1951 - Dir. of Mutual Security Agency. (Bk-44, 130)
*  1951 - Assitant to Truman for Nat. Security affairs. - Largely responsible for the Vietnam War. (??? Find)
*  1955 - Gov. of State of New York
*  1961 - Ambassador at Large
*  1961 - Assis. Sec. of State for Far East
*  1963 - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
*  1968 - U.S. Rep. at Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam.
*  1974 - Chairman of Democratic Party Foreign Policy Task Force
*  1975 - Limited Partner - Brown Bros. Harriman.
*  1983 - Visits Uri Andropovin Moscow. (Bk-44, 130)
*  Elder Statesman of the Democratic Party. (Bk-44, 33)