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...firm-minded chairman was wanted for the Federal Radio Commission. Through Secretary Hoover, President Coolidge again urged the post on his friend, Carmi Alderman Thompson of Cleveland. Col. Thompson declined. The President had to think of other prim-minded...
...could have assembled the St. Paul security-holders at once for an executive session, it would have pressed its objections to the plan engineered by suave Jerome J. Hanauer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and associates of the National City Co., and Robert T. Swaine of the potent Manhattan law-firm of Cravath, Henderson & De Gersdorff. The objections...
...late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage house; when he came out of the navy, where he had been an ensign, he was aware of certain defects in his financial education that might forbid the eminence which he desired. Instead of rejoining his firm, he joined the Chase Securities Corporation, then spent a year in the credit department of the bank. So doing, he attracted the favorable attention of the president of the Chase Bank, Albert Henry Wiggin...
Another student enjoyed the privilege of being sued recently by a Chicago perfumery firm. He had undertaken and failed to sell its product. His defense is that "their perfumes are not worthy of being sold...
...Wolcott was a prominent member of his class during his undergraduate days in his Senior year he rowed on the University crew in the Yale race. After his graduation he entered the Boston office of Brown Brothers and Company, and remained with that firm, as agent and atorney, until 1919, when he became vice-president of the State Street Trust Company, which office he still holds...