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Next day Ike began to fill his list of new U.S. representatives abroad. As Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he named Winthrop Williams Aldrich, 67, chairman of the board of Chase National, one of the nation's largest commercial banks. An amateur musician, artist (specialty: watercolor seascapes) and crack yachtsman (navigator of the America's Cup defender Enterprise), Aldrich is a longtime friend of Britain, was president of the British War Relief Society during World War II, helped swing Britain's first postwar loan from...
...Rhode Island's onetime Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich (1841-1915), young Winthrop started out to follow a lawyer's career, graduated tenth in his class at Harvard Law School. After a sister married John D. Rockefeller Jr., he veered off toward banking. In 1922 he became chief counsel to the old Equitable Trust; by 1933 he was running Chase National, the "Rockefeller Bank," with headquarters in downtown Manhattan...
...Honorable Harrie Brigham Chase, of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d circuit, assisted by Bailey Aldrich '28 and Benjamin Leven, local lawyers, will preside when the Casner Equity and Scott clubs meet December 11. These will argue the constitutionally of a federal wage earning...
...friendship and admiration during the campaign was Herbert Brownell. Ike gave him his choice of the Justice Department or Postmaster General; Brownell chose Justice. As for Secretary of the Treasury, Eisenhower agreed with his advisers, including Brownell, that he should not be a "Wall Street" banker type. Banker Winthrop Aldrich, an Eisenhower supporter who was himself mentioned for the Treasury job, heartily agreed. Then General Lucius Clay suggested Industrialist George Humphrey...
...good deal of credit for the 1952 showing goes to a spectacular get-out-the-vote drive sparked by American Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan agency. Beginning last June, the foundation (chairman: New York Banker Winthrop Aldrich; vice chairman A.F.L. President William Green) went hammer & tongs to obtain the cooperation of civic groups, broadcasters, editors, educators, cartoonists, advertisers...