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...augustly were the members of the floor committee: Mrs. Field's butler, buck-toothed Hider, chairman and Big Man of the evening; her Chauffeur Haslam; Leonard K. Elmhirst's Butler Grove; Dr. Milton A. Bridge's May, who was once with Reginald Vanderbilt; Banker Winthrop W. Aldrich's handsome affable Wetherall, Charles Morgan's Butler White, Ogden Phipps' big red-faced Parr, who used to work for Lady Astor, a great distinction because Lady Astor entertains a great deal...
...Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller must have warmed his old grandfather's heart even before he graduated from Dartmouth. There he dug hard into economics and taught a Sunday school class of twelve-year-old girls. In his senior year he pleased his social-minded father, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., by winning a fellowship which exempted him from examinations and permitted him to dig into the fine arts as well. Just before graduation in 1930 he said: "I don't claim to have sprouted wings. . . . But I have de veloped a growing enthusiasm and appreciation [for art] which will stay...
Sometimes the U. S. Senate can find out more about a business than even its own officers know. In Washington last October, when Albert Henry Wiggin was testifying on stock pools, it became evident that Winthrop Williams Aldrich, new head of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, was hearing a number of things "for the first time. Mr. Wiggn's testimony was also news to Mr. Aldrich's brother-in-law, John D. Rockefeller Jr., biggest Chase stockholder. Neither Mr. Aldrich nor Mr. Rockefeller liked what the Senate turned up for them. Last week it became public knowledge...
Facing his stockholders and reading his annual report. Banker Aldrich came to what was probably the longest and most uninspired sentence of all the long and uninspired sentences read by bank officers to their stockholders last week: "The board of directors has appointed a special committee of directors to consider such matters as may have been disclosed or touched upon at the recent hearings with reference to the bank and its affairs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Banking & Currency of the United States Senate, with authority to select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these...
...Said Mr. Aldrich: "I should say that every conceivable allegation as to negligence or misfeasance that any lawyer could think of had already been made in the suits that have been commenced...