Word: aldriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three-Cornered Moon by Gertrude Tonkonogy; Richard Aldrich de Liagre, producers). Feyest of the Rimplegars of Brooklyn is Mother Rimplegar (Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive...
...strength of these four banks. Had every bank in New York and the U. S.-or even a considerable fraction of them-been managed with equal sagacity, the United States would not have been treated to last week's holiday spectacle. That was the simplest answer to the Aldrich blast. It was made not by a Morgan Partner but in one laconic and ironic sentence from the lips of Guaranty Trust's President William Chapman Potter: "My conscience is easy...
Results. Little publicized but far reaching among Mr. Aldrich's proposals was his suggestion that all commercial banks should be made members of the Federal Reserve, for not only is such membership an expensive luxury for many a village bank, but bringing all banks into one fold would undoubtedly pave the way for one uniform banking system in place of the present 49 systems (one national, 48 state). This subject along with the vast problem of who shall sell the nation's securities is due to be aired when Congress comes to deal with the more than temporary...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. married Winthrop Aldrich's sister, Abby...
Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Matthew Chauncey Brush and Charles E. Richardson resigned as directors of Fox Film Corp. to make way for Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware (receiver for General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which controls Fox) and several Fox officials. No change of control was signified, but gentlemen had a natural desire to retire from a directorate on which the limelight of Senatorial investigation may soon be playing...