Unveil tablet to memory of founder of Mt. Vernon Seminary. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. The unveiling of two tab[...] to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Somers, founder and head of the exclusive Mt. Vernon Seminary from 1875 to 1915 [...]axed the [...]entenary celebration at the school today. Distinguished members of alumnae, lead by Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet, attended the celebration. In the photograph, left to right: Dr. Mary E. Wooley, President Emeritus Mt. Holyoke College; Miss Polly Trees, Class of '36, and Miss Jean Cole, President Dean of the school, 11/5/37

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.