biography
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Funston, (George) Keith
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–92)
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| biography:
| Business executive and college president, born in Waterloo, Iowa, USA. A banker's son, he worked his way through Trinity College and Harvard Business School before becoming a salesman for American Radiator, and later, Sylvania. In 1945–51 he was president of Trinity College (Hartford, CT), where he managed to increase the college endowment by 50 per cent. He led the New York Stock Exchange through a period of revival and sustained expansion (1951–67) before ending a varied career as part-time chairman of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Co (1967–72). |
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