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The inner circle of Associates ws constantly expanding. Fosdick had first brought Arthur Woods to Junior's attention, and in
1921 he hired another young man with formidable talents, Beardley Ruml. It was to Ruml that he entrusted the task of
making a survey of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Public Library, to which Junior proposed t ogive a sum of one million dollars each. Apsychology Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Bearsley Ruml was a huge, florid-faced man of Czech parentage who had already established himself in business and philanthropy when Fosdick brought him to Juniour's attention.
Formerly employed as an advisor to the Armour and Swift companies, and assistant to the president of the Carnegie Corpor-ation, Ruml was one of the new breed of intellectual entrepreneurs able to move smoothly between the worlds of universities, business, and government, creating agencies, assebling networks of influence, and in general helping to blueprint the
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