Myron Charles Taylor (January 18, 1874 – May 5, 1959) was an American
industrialist
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, and later a diplomat involved in many of the most important
geopolitical events during and after World War II.
In addition he was a philanthropist, giving to his ''
alma mater'',
Cornell University
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, and a number of other causes.
Early life and career
Taylor was born in
Lyons, New York to William Delling Taylor and Mary Morgan ( Underhill) Taylor. His father owned and operated a
tannery
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**Indoor tanning, the use of artificial light in place of the sun
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business. Taylor graduated from the
Cornell Law School
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in 1894. He returned to Lyons and for the next five years attempted to establish a small-town law practice.
He also twice ran for the
New York State Assembly
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The Assem ...
as a
Democrat
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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, and both times was defeated.
In 1900, Taylor left Lyons to join his brother Willard Underhill Taylor (Cornell, A.B., class of 1891) on
Wall Street
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in
New York City
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,
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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. His focus turned to
corporate law, practicing at the firm of DeForest Brothers & DeForest. Taylor handled litigation for his father's tannery and subsequently won a
U.S. government contract for
mail pouches and related products.
He moved into the textile and mail delivery business and, according to the ''Finger Lakes Times'', invented the transparent "window" in
envelope
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Traditional envelopes are made from sheets of paper cut to one of three shapes: a rhombus, a shor ...
s through which an address is displayed.
Taylor's efforts in the textile industry expanded to the
cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...
markets, identifying opportunities to acquire struggling
cotton mills, reworking labor practices and updating the technology they used.
This approach later became known as the "Taylor Formula". Seeing the potential of the infant
automotive industry
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, he established a
textile
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firm that became the leading supplier of combined tire fabric. During
World War I
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his plants became the leading suppliers to the
American military effort. Following the war he saw a
boom-bust cycle
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coming and disposed of all his interests in the mills.
U.S. Steel
With his now-sizable fortune he could have retired, but at the urging of two leading Wall Street bankers (
J. P. Morgan, Jr. and
George F. Baker), Taylor was recruited to help turn around the finances of U.S. Steel. It was once the largest
steel
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producer and largest
corporation
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in the world. On September 15, 1925, he was elected a director and member of its powerful
finance
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committee
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. He became the committee's
chairman
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in 1929. From March 29, 1932, until April 5, 1938, he was U.S. Steel's chairman and
chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
.
During the
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
, he applied the "Taylor Formula" again — closing or selling plants; reorganizing the corporate structure; and upgrading and modernizing the company's operations and technology. One defining moment occurred in 1937, when Taylor struck a deal with labor leader
John L. Lewis
John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the d ...
who, at the time, was head of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
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(CIO). Through the deal, U.S. Steel agreed to recognize a CIO subsidiary for purposes of representing and organizing U.S. Steel workers, becoming the first major industrial corporation to take this historic step. The basis for the deal later became known as the "Myron Taylor Labor Formula", defining how to bring about labor stability and long-term prosperity for the company:
''"The Company recognizes the right of its employees to bargain collectively through
representatives freely chosen by them without dictation, coercion or intimidation in any form or from any source. It will negotiate and contract with the representatives of any group of its employees so chosen and with any organization as the representative of its members, subject to the recognition of the principle that the right to work is not dependent on membership or non-membership in any organization and subject to the right of every employee freely to bargain in such
manner and through such representatives, if any, as he chooses."''
Taylor soon was featured on the covers of or in articles in ''
Time
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'', ''
Fortune
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* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
* Fortune, in a fortune cookie
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* ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...
'', ''
Business Week
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'', ''
The New Yorker
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'', and ''
The Saturday Evening Post
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''. He did not officially retire from the board until January 12, 1956.
U.S. Steel named one of its new
lake freighters the ''Myron C. Taylor'' in 1929. It sailed under this name until it was sold off in 2000.
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Diplomat
International affairs
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In July 1938 he represented the U.S. at the
Évian Conference in
Évian-les-Bains
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,
France
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, which convened at the initiative of
U.S. President
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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to discuss the issue of increasing numbers of
Jewish refugees
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Timeline
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Assyrian captivity
; ...
fleeing
Nazi
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persecution
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leading up to the onset of World War II.
Before
German
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**Ger ...
Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler
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turned to
mass extermination of Jews by way of
The Holocaust
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, the possibility of having
refugee
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. s sent to willing countries was posed.
Sumner Welles
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, the
U.S. Under Secretary of State had proposed an international conference to address immigration issues.
Going into the conference Roosevelt gave Taylor the instruction: "All you need to do is get these people together." Taylor was appointed chairman, and while he was not able to get concessions on immigration, a proposal to create the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees was approved.
Personal envoy to Pope Pius XII
On December 22, 1939, Roosevelt asked Taylor "to take on a special mission for me" to be Roosevelt's "personal envoy" to
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII ( it, Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (; 2 March 18769 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his e ...
.
Taylor's appointment was announced on December 23, 1939 and confirmed in
Rome
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,
Italy
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, on February 28, 1940.
Taylor served from 1940 throughout the rest of Roosevelt's presidency (his death in 1945) and continued as President
Harry S. Truman
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's "personal envoy" until 1950.
Although appointed as a "Peace Ambassador" and "personal envoy", Taylor was extended
ambassador
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status by the
Holy See
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on February 13, 1940.
His appointment to that diplomatic position was officially protested by many American
Protestant
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Christian
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denominations, including
Methodists,
Presbyterians
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,
Lutherans,
Baptists
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and
Seventh-day Adventists
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, who opposed the United States maintaining diplomatic relations with the
Vatican.
Taylor left Rome on September 22, 1941, flying to
Lisbon
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and
London
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on the way back to the U.S. Initially he was ordered to work to prevent Italy from joining the war with Germany. Later he would be influential in urging limited
bombing of Rome in 1943–1944 by the
Allies of World War II
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, and then only of specific military targets, in order to preserve the cultural resources of the ancient city.
Harold H. Tittmann Jr.
Harold Hilgard Tittmann, Jr. (January 8, 1893 - December 29, 1980) was an American diplomat who became an expert on Fascism, Fascist Italy and represented Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Roosevelt in the Vatican City, Vatican during World War II. ...
remained as ''
chargé d'affaires
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'' after Taylor's departure. Given the rising tensions, he was required to move into
Vatican City
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* german: Vatikanstadt, cf. '—' (in Austria: ')
* pl, Miasto Watykańskie, cf. '—'
* pt, Cidade do Vati ...
on December 13, 1941, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the US entered World War II against the Axis Powers.
['']The New York Times
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''. December 14, 1941. "U.S. Envoy in Vatican", p. 8. Taylor returned to Rome in September 1942, but went back to the US in October of that year.
Taylor was also successful in persuading
Spain
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, i ...
's
military general and
dictator
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Francisco Franco
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not to join the
Axis powers of World War II. Later, he was able to lobby for an Allied
military airbase
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in neutral Portugal that was ultimately granted. As the war approached its end and afterwards, Taylor recognized the Italian people were in dire need of necessities. He established American Relief for Italy, an organization that became the primary means to provide food, clothing and medicine to millions of suffering Italians. In a short time approximately $6 million in public funds were raised and over $37 million in relief supplies were distributed.
Taylor intended to step down after the war ended. Following Roosevelt's death, he agreed to stay on and to help President
Harry S. Truman
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, who succeeded to office. Truman charged Taylor to work "not only with the Pope but with other leaders in the spiritual world and in the world of politics and secular affairs as he travels through
Europe
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in the fulfillment of his mission."
Taylor resigned in January 1950. Truman recalled Taylor's assistant, Franklin C. Gowan, prompting speculation that the U.S. would reduce its relations with the Vatican and its officials. Protestant leaders continued to oppose US relations with the Vatican.
Awards
In 1929, a
lake freighter operated by a subsidiary of US Steel was named the ''
Myron C. Taylor
Myron Charles Taylor (January 18, 1874 – May 5, 1959) was an American business magnate, industrialist, and later a diplomat involved in many of the most important geopolitics, geopolitical events during and after World War II.
In addition h ...
'' in his honor.
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On December 20, 1948, President Truman awarded Taylor the
Medal for Merit
The Medal for Merit was, during the period it was awarded, the highest civilian decoration of the United States. It was awarded by the President of the United States to civilians who "distinguished themselves by exceptionally meritorious conduct i ...
— one of the highest civilian decoration of the U.S. awarded to civilians for exceptionally meritorious conduct.
Taylor was named a Knight of the
Order of Pope Pius IX.
Retirement
Taylor's country home in
Locust Valley
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History
The rolling h ...
, New York, was situated on the site of a farm started by an English
colonial ancestor,
Captain John Underhill
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. After the Underhill house was damaged in a fire, Taylor did not tear it down. Instead, he encased it in a new
façade
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In architecture, the façade of a building is often t ...
designed by the architect
Harrie T. Lindeberg
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. Taylor took an active interest in Underhill — placing a marker at the entrance to the
Underhill Burying Ground in 1953 and creating an
endowment
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to assist with the
perpetual
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* Perpetual curacy, a type of Christian priesthood in Anglicanism
* Perpetual virginity of Mary, one of the four Marian dogmas in Catholicism
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maintenance. The marker reads: "Erected by Myron C. Taylor in honor of his mother Mary Morgan Underhill Taylor, 1953".
Philanthropy and charitable activity
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Taylor gave $1.5 million in 1928 to Cornell University for the construction of a new building complex for its Cornell Law School and Law Library. The new space allowed the
library
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five floors of
stacks for over 200,000 volumes.
The dedication was in the Moot Court Room on October 15, 1932, with a
buffet luncheon in the Reading Room following. Taylor and his wife, Anabel, presented the keys to the hall to then-Cornell University President
Livingston Farrand.
Among his last-remaining projects after his retirement was overseeing his 1949 gift to Cornell to build a $1.5 million structure adjoining its law school (which he had also helped to build). The new building, Anabel Taylor Hall, was named in his wife's honor and built to serve as an
interdenominational
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History
The movement has its origins in the founding of the London Missionary Society, a missionary society, in 1795 by variou ...
religious center. Funds from Taylor also went toward the establishment of the Myron Taylor Lectures on Foreign Affairs, and for the
Charles Evans Hughes residence center.
Myron and Anabel Taylor contributed several items to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, or owned artwork that was later given by another collector. Among these items include:
* a
statue
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tte of the god
Anubis as
embalmer,
Ptolemaic Period, c. 332-30 BC (given by Mr. and Mrs. Myron Taylor in 1938)
* ''
Bouquet of Chrysanthemums'',
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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, 1881 (purchased by Taylor by 1937, sold in 1961 to Annenberg, bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2002).
Death
Taylor quietly lived out his final years, never seeking public accolades or recognition. His wife, Anabel, died on December 12, 1958. He died five months later on May 5, 1959, at his home on 16 East 70th Street, Manhattan, New York, at the age of 85.
Truman paid tribute noting, "The Honorable Myron C. Taylor performed great services for both me and my predecessor in the White House to the Vatican at a time when it was essential that the United States be represented in that quarter. Undoubtedly, no one could have performed the job as well as he did ... All of this should be deeply grateful for the unselfish works of this fine man and able public servant."
"Looking back, Lyons' Myron Taylor led a quiet but impressive life"
fltimes.com. Accessed November 21, 2022.
See also
*Foreign relations of Pope Pius XII
Foreign relations of Pope Pius XII extended to most of Europe and a few states outside Europe. Pius XII was pope from 1939 to 1958, during World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
Background
Between the loss of the Papal States in 1870 ...
* United States Ambassador to the Holy See
*United States Steel
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Notes
References
* Curtiss, W. David and Stewart, Evan, ''Cornell Benefactor, Industrial Czar, and FDR's "Ambassador Extraordinary''
External links
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