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...Author. Conrad Potter Aiken. 42, shares some obvious likenesses with his hero: son of a doctor, he was born in Savannah, Ga., has lived abroad, has sandy hair. When he was 11, Aiken saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. He was Class Poet (1911) at Harvard, among a generation that included Poets Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected...
...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...
...About 25 mi. from small Eldorado, Ohio. †Writer (books, magazine articles), poet (Lace Maker of Segovia), authority on Spanish and Spanish-American affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...
...Chase-dominated. By contract he retains a $500,000-a-year salary until 1935. A new Fox director whose election was a surprise was David K. Este Bruce, son-in-law of Andrew William Mellon. George Mallory Pynchon, senior partner of defunct Pynchon & Co?took a salaried job with Potter 6 Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange. Nathan S. Jonas, founder of Manufacturers Trust Co., Manhattan, chairman of its board of directors, resigned. This had been rumored ever since Harvey Dow Gibson & associates bought control of Manufacturers from Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. (TIME...
During the past decade no U. S. families have appeared more sensationally in the nation's newspapers than the McCormicks of Chicago and the Stillmans of New York. Last week, both families made one big story. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman, 52, obtained an amazingly secret divorce (grounds: infidelity) from James Alexander Stillman, 60, onetime president, now director and largest stockholder of National City Bank. A few hours later Mrs. Stillman married, at Pleasantville, N. Y., Harold Fowler McCormick Jr., 32. These were the glittering names which the news conjured...