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...something beginning like this; "Fifty-seven per cent of Yale men ten years out of college would fight in another war and forty-three percent would not, it was revealed today in the results of an 'opinion test'. A majority of Yale ten-year men disapprove of Albert. H. Wiggin and Samuel Insult; but approve of J. P. Morgan." Then you read on and it turns out that the Yale men are going to hold a dinner (war or no war). That is all right, but the thought of a united body of Yale men openly disapproving of Albert...
...prices made the terms of the deal look ridiculous, and on Nov. 7, 1929, National City's stockholders failed to ratify the merger. Same day some of Chase National Bank's bevy of affiliates began to buy Corn Exchange in the open market and elsewhere. Albert Henry Wiggin wanted to make Chase the biggest bank in the U. S. He did-but not by gobbling up $245,000,000 Corn Exchange, which advertises "a bank statement that any man or woman can understand." Chase, whose statement at that time no man but Bankster Wiggin could understand, bought & bought...
...Shortest stockholders' meeting of the week was Western Union's: ten minutes. Re-elections of directors were unanimous with one exception. A stockholder controlling 125 shares refused to vote for Bankster Albert Henry ("Al") Wiggin...
...hunting season on utility and financial magnates, never enjoying a closed season to be sure but comparatively quiescent since Wiggin, Chase et al were salted away last year, seems to be enjoying another period when game is plentiful. Samuel Insull, recently trapped after a long pursuit by Federal authorities, has now been followed by O. P. van Sweringen as prey to the righteous. Unlike the Insull case, which is virtually over with the exception of refunding losses to the suckers and casting Insull into durance vile, the van Sweringen affair may yet have repercussions which will make the Federal authorities...
Forty-eight hours after Albert H. Wiggin admitted to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last autumn that he was receiving $100,000 per year "retirement pay" from Chase National Bank, President Roosevelt announced he had begun studying legislation to control high salaries by taxation. He had already approved Federal Rail Coordinator Eastman's "suggestion" that railroad presidents fix their income at $60,000 or less. Then, on orders from the Senate, the Federal Trade Commission sent a questionnaire to some 2,000 corporations whose stock is listed on the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. Resultant information: executive salaries...