Word: aldriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...augustly were the members of the floor committee: Mrs. Field's butler, buck-toothed Hider, chairman and Big Man of the evening; her Chauffeur Haslam; Leonard K. Elmhirst's Butler Grove; Dr. Milton A. Bridge's May, who was once with Reginald Vanderbilt; Banker Winthrop W. Aldrich's handsome affable Wetherall, Charles Morgan's Butler White, Ogden Phipps' big red-faced Parr, who used to work for Lady Astor, a great distinction because Lady Astor entertains a great deal...
...Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller must have warmed his old grandfather's heart even before he graduated from Dartmouth. There he dug hard into economics and taught a Sunday school class of twelve-year-old girls. In his senior year he pleased his social-minded father, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., by winning a fellowship which exempted him from examinations and permitted him to dig into the fine arts as well. Just before graduation in 1930 he said: "I don't claim to have sprouted wings. . . . But I have de veloped a growing enthusiasm and appreciation [for art] which will stay...
Sometimes the U. S. Senate can find out more about a business than even its own officers know. In Washington last October, when Albert Henry Wiggin was testifying on stock pools, it became evident that Winthrop Williams Aldrich, new head of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, was hearing a number of things "for the first time. Mr. Wiggn's testimony was also news to Mr. Aldrich's brother-in-law, John D. Rockefeller Jr., biggest Chase stockholder. Neither Mr. Aldrich nor Mr. Rockefeller liked what the Senate turned up for them. Last week it became public knowledge...
...than two years ago, he was by January 1933 already filibustering in the Senate for "reflation or revolution." In February on the very day that Michigan's banks were collapsing like a house of cards, he wrote letters appealing for inflation to the big bankers of Manhattan-Morgan, Aldrich, Mitchell, Potter, Harrison et al. Said he to them: "After months of effort, here we are forced to appeal from an impotent Congress and a short-sighted administration to you, a higher power, to stop forcing the retreat and to, at once, give the order to advance...
...relatively "minor" job, being outranked not only by Mr. Wiggin but also by the chairman of the executive committee and the chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Wiggin has been ousted by Chase National's biggest stockholder, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. President Wlnthrop Williams Aldrich is now also chairman of the governing committee. But still wedged in between Mr. Aldrich as undisputed boss and Mr. Aldrich as president are Chairman of the Executive Committee John McHugh and Board Chairman Charles S. McCain. Last week Mr. McHugh, who used to be a big banker in Sioux...