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Washington society is dissected under a chapter entitled "Boiled Bosoms" with the Gann-Longworth and McLean-de Ligne feuds recounted (TIME, Dec. 15 et ante, May 13, 1929). Tittle-tattle: Bachelor Senator Tydings of Maryland playing "footie" with sedate ladies; Mrs. Trubee Davison, wife of the Assistant Secretary of War, smoking a pipe; Daisy Harriman trimming Senator Walsh's walrus-like mustache...
...dinner, cigars, and discussion President Hoover last week had at the White House four important Manhattan bankers: President William C. Potter of Guaranty Trust Co., President Charles Simonton McCain and Vice President James T. Lee of Chase National Bank, President George Willets Davison of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. Also present was Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board. They conferred on "the general business situation." Two reports immediately developed: 1) the President was planning more banking aid to Europe; 2) he was arranging to protect mortgage issues from speculative manipulation...
...with a similar pledge for its non-union miners. But late in July, C. F. & I. abruptly announced a 25% wage cut, with base pay cut to $5.22 per day. All other important companies in the State except Rocky Mountain made like reductions. Miss Roche publicly appealed to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., C. F. & I. owner: "One word from you can prevent a recurrence of the human and economic waste which will result from the action taken by your company. For 40 years industrial conflict has broken out in Colorado as a result of similar attempts to secure operating profits...
...first sailing off Warwick, R.I. in a mainsail-rigged dory, his first cruising on his father's steam yacht. He graduated from Harvard in 1907, was admitted to the bar in New York five years later. As representative of the Rockefellers (his sister Abby married John Davison Rockefeller Jr.), he led the fight to oust Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. It was partly the family connection that made him head of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust. It is not probable that, like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has found that Tammany Hall was holding up him and the other builders of Manhattan's Radio City, for the granting of privileges for entrancesand garages. He threatened to withdraw the project, threatened to tell Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the city's municipal scandals. Tammany Hall, scowled, pondered...