Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

W. Averell Harriman brought to the new firm his vice
president, Prescott Sheldon Bush, who had been with
him since 1926. Bush became chairman of the Board of
Pennsylvania Water & Power Co., director U.S. Rubber,
PanAm, CBS, Dresser Mfg Co., Vanadium, U.S.
Guaranty, Prudential Insurance and partner Brown Bros
Harriman. He was chmn National War Fund 1943-44 and
chmn USO. His son George [H.W.] Bush is now vice
president of the U.S.
George Herbert Walker, grandfather of George H.W.
Bush, who was named after him, became president of
W.A. Harriman Co. in 1928 (now Brown Bros. Harriman).
He was director of Belgian-American Coke Ovens Corp.,
chmn Habershaw Cable Corp., chmn International Great
Northern Railway, director Certain Teed Products,
American Shipping & Commerce Corp., American
International Corporation, Cuba Railway Co.,
Pennsylvania Coal & Coke. He was the donor of the
Walker Cup, the prestigious golf trophy, and president of
the U.S. Golf Association. In 1925, he financed the
building of Madison Square Garden. His son, George H.
Walker Jr. became chmn Walker-Bush Oil Corp., and
Zapata Petroleum (George Bush's firm), Silesian
Holdings, with W.A. Harriman City Investing Corp.,
Westmoreland Coal. Co. and West Indies Sugar Co. He
is a trustee of Yale. George H. Walker III merged the firm
of G.H. Walker Co. with Laird & Co. and White & Weld in
1974. He is now a senior vice pres. of White & Weld.