Both E. Roland Harriman and Prescott Bush were members of Skull and Bones as well as being members of the board of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. The Harriman business interests seized under the act in October and November 1942 included Union Banking Corporation (UBC) (for Thyssen and Brown Brothers Harriman). The President of UBC at that time was George Herbert Walker, Bush's father-in-law. • Dutch-American Trading Corporation (with Harriman) • the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation (with Harriman) • Silesian-American Corporation (this company was partially owned by a German entity during the war the Germans tried to take full control of Silesian-American. In response to that, the American government seized German owned minority shares in the company, leaving the US. partners to carry on the business) The assets were held by the government for the duration of the war, then returned afterward. UBC was dissolved in 1951. Bush was on the board of directors of UBC and held one share in the company. For it, he was reimbursed $1,500,000. (a huge amount of
