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- Paul H. Nitze
- Nitze was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. His German ancestors came from the region of Magdeburg [Germany]. Paul Nitze’s father was a professor of Romance Linguistics who concluded his career at the University of Chicago. In his memoir, From Hiroshima to Glasnost, Paul Nitze describes how as a young boy he witnessed the outbreak of World War I while traveling in Germany with his father, mother, and sister, arriving in Munich just in time to be struck by the city crowds’ patriotic enthusiasm for the imminent conflict. Nitze attended the Hotchkiss School and graduated from Harvard University in 1928 and entered the field of investment banking. In 1928-1929 the Chicago brokerage firm of Bacon, Whipple and Company sent Nitze to Europe. Upon his return, he heard Clarence Dillon predict the depression and the decline of the importance of finance. Having attained financial independence through the sale to Revlon of his interest in a French laboratory producing pharmaceutical products in the U.S., Nitze took an intellectual sabbatical that included a year of graduate study at Harvard in sociology, philosophy, and constitutional and international law. Nitze entered government service during World War II, serving first on the staff of James Forrestal when Forrestal became an administrative assistant to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1942, he was chief of the Metals and Minerals Branch of the Board of Economic Warfare, until he was named director, Foreign Procurement and Development Branch of the Foreign Economic Administration in 1943. From 1944 to 1946, Nitze served as director and then as Vice Chairman of the Strategic Bombing Survey for which President Harry S. Truman awarded him the Legion of Merit. In the early post-war era, he served in the Truman Administration as Director of Policy Planning for the State Department (1950-1953). He was also the principal author in 1950 of a highly influential secret National Security Council document (NSC-68), which provided the strategic outline for increased U.S. expenditures to counter the perceived threat of Soviet armament. From 1953 to 1961, Nitze served as president of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation while concurrently serving as an associate of the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. Nitze co-founded SAIS with Christian Herter in 1943 and the world-renowned graduate school, based in Washington, D.C., is currently named in his honor. His publications during this period include U.S. Foreign Policy: 1945-1955. In 1961 President Kennedy appointed Nitze Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and in 1963 he became the Secretary of the Navy, serving until 1967. Following his term as Secretary of the Navy, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1967-1969), as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (1969-1973), and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs (1973-1976). Later, fearing Soviet rearmament, he opposed the ratification of SALT II (1979). Paul Nitze was a co-founder of Team B, a 1970s intelligence think tank that challenged the National Intelligence Estimates provided by the CIA. The Team B reports became the intellectual foundation for the idea of “the window of vulnerability” and of the massive arms buildup that began toward the end of the Carter administration and accelerated under President Ronald Reagan. Team B came to the conclusion that the Soviets had developed new weapons of mass destruction and had aggressive strategies with regard to a potential nuclear war. Team B’s analysis of Soviet weapon systems was later proven to be largely exaggerated. Nitze was President Ronald Reagan’s chief negotiator of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (1981-1984). In 1984, Nitze was named Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control. For more than forty years, Nitze was one of the chief architects of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. President Reagan awarded Nitze the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 for his contributions to the freedom and security of the United States. In 1991, he was awarded the prestigious United States Military Academy’s Sylvanus Thayer Award for his commitment to the Academy’s ideals of “Duty, Honor, Country.” Nitze’s brother-in-law Walter Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute and Aspen Skiing Company. Nitze continued to ski in Aspen until well into his 80s. —absoluteastronomy.com
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- Paul Harvey
- Student at Adams State University.
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- Paul Henry Prinster
- With his three brothers, one of the owners of City Market grocery stores. He was born in La Junta, Colorado to Joseph Frank Prinster and Millie (Kroboth) Prinster. His father was the owner of a meat market and grocery store. His mother was a homemaker. Different US Census records give the country of Joseph’s birth as Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. New York ship passenger arrivals show that he arrived from Germany on February 21, 1883, and that he was from Austria. US Census records show Millie Prinster as being born in Austria, although the 1900 US Census has her country of birth as Hungary. Paul learned the grocery and meat business from his father. He disliked school and was happy to work instead of study. The 1910 US Census shows Paul working as a butcher. Colorado marriage records show that he married Carrie A. Palmer in La Junta on April 21, 1912. She died in 1916. They had one son, Paul Joseph Prinster. The 1920 Census shows Paul Henry remarried to Edna May (Lampson) Prinster and living with their son in La Junta. They officially divorced in 1934. Paul came to Grand Junction around 1920 and began working for the Piggly Wiggly grocery store as their meat manager. When a promised store manager position failed to materialize in 1924, he purchased a share in the City Market grocery store that had been established by Adam Booker at 4th and Main Streets in 1922. His brothers Frank, Leo and Clarence joined him in Grand Junction in 1924 and they purchased the rest of the company. They set up a lard rendering operation in the back, which Paul operated, and sold the rendered lard to customers. With his three brothers, he owned and operated the successful store and chain for many years. Colorado marriage records show Paul Henry Prinster marrying Goldie Borer in Glenwood Springs in 1924. US Census records show them living with family at 1225 Ouray Avenue in 1930 and at 407 N 7th Street in 1940. He had at least one son, John. He was a member of the Grand Junction Lions Club. *Some information for this biography came from the book The History of City Market by Anthony F. Prinster and Kate Ruland-Thorne.
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- Paul Lamacario Nichols
- A Hopi Indian boy who lived at the Teller Institute, and helped the Nichols family with their fruit orchards in Fruitvale. Later, he was adopted by the Nichols family.
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- Paul Le Brock Littler
- He was born in Iowa to Edward C. and Sarah J. Littler. US Census records show him living in Iowa in 1900, at the age of nine, and in Ft. Collins, Colorado in 1910, at the age of 18. He was educated at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He married Dorothy Littler in 1922. They lived in Montrose, Colorado, where he practiced law. He was elected a District Judge in 1944, and he and his family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado. They had two children.