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...clients (Pynchon & Co., Fox Film, German debtors, etc.) had their share of it. Result: the gossip in the market place was not pleasant for Chase officials to listen to. Time came when the Rockefellers felt apparently that the Chase should be run in a far different way. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Rockefeller brother-in-law, who had been president of Equitable, became chairman of Chase. Mr. Wiggin retired, aged 64, not broke like some others, but as one who had kept the rewards of his labors, as a very rich man-an achievement which in these days the financial community regards...
...dropping the securities business? A. He had not been consulted. He had approved the action by proxy. "I am absolutely in favor of backing up the management of the bank. . . . Very probably if I were still senior officer of the bank I might have done just what Mr. Aldrich has recommended. I do not know. Up to the time I left the bank I did not think that it was necessary. . . ." Q. What services had Mr. Wiggin rendered for his $100,000 retirement salary? A. "I think I am a direct influence in holding a very large business...
Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
Miss BISHOP-Bess Streeter Aldrich-Appleton-Century...
Such a resume hardly does Miss Bishop justice. The late great Thomas Hardy also piled coincidences and hounded his heroines relentlessly. No Hardy, but a popular novelist with a popular novelist's faults and virtues, Authoress Aldrich writes with feminine gusto, human warmth...