New Harriman Deal

W. (for William) Averell Harriman, son of late Railroadmaster Edward Henry Harriman. has in the past ventured to make a name for himself in the shipping business (Hamburg-American Line) and in air transportation (Aviation Corp.). He has at one time or another tried his hand at developing manganese concessions in Soviet Russia, zinc mines and public utilities in Poland. He still has his interest in one of Manhattan's big banking houses. But for several months his active interest has been the NRA which he has served as New York State NRAdministrator. Last week he got an NRA promotion, moved right up to General Johnson's elbow.

He became deputy administrator in charge of one (No. II) of NRA's five national divisions, supervising codes for the construction and machinery industries. Because of the large Harriman holdings in railroads and aviation, jurisdiction over transportation codes was hastily taken from Division II, transferred to Division V under supervision of Sol Rosenblatt.

At General Johnson's elbow Mr. Harriman met an old acquaintance: his sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, passionate New Dealer, who at the instance of her good friend Madam Secretary Perkins, enjoys the chairmanship of NRA's consumers' advisory board, and has become a favorite with the General. Sister Mary founded the Junior League at the turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers. Sister Mary is constantly in touch with her brother by telephone. Together they joined Vincent Astor in financing Today. Mentioned for Minister to some European capital last week was another Harriman (distant cousin by marriage of Son Averell and Sister Mary)--Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, a Wilson Democrat, whose Sunday night salons have long been a Washington institution and who once trimmed the bristling mustache of the late great Senator Thomas James Walsh.

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