Word: banker
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...chief direct service was that he served as a Fellow in the Corporation for twenty-six years, 1893-1919, with the utmost punctuality, assiduity, and devotion, and with high intelligence. Why was he chosen a member of the Corporation? Not because he was a successful banker and broker of State Street. Far from it. He was chosen because he was as fine an exemplar of the patriotic citizen-soldier as there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds...
...Murdock, the new director, is a banker, book collector, and historian. He is the author of "The Reconstruction of Europe," "Earl Percy's Dinner Table," and a historical sketch of the great Boston fire. In addition he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former president of the Club of Odd Volumes. In recognition of his distinction as a book collector, he received an Honorary Degree as Master of Arts from the University in 1916. He will begin his new work in January...
...Senatorial Committee on Foreign Relations received a startling testimony from Mr. Vanderlip yesterday. This New York banker has just returned from an extended private tour through Europe where he sounded the individual opinion of leading continental financiers. He received the impression, which he stated yesterday without comment, that England and France are expecting the United States to cancel the huge loans we have made. If this is true, it certainly deserves comment. The Committee cannot be blamed for expressing surprise...
...later life Robert Bacon was a banker, first in Boston and, since 1894, with the Morgan firm in New York. Appointed by Elihu Root as his Associate Secretary of State, he later became head of the State Department under President Roosevelt. As Ambassador to France he served for three years with great distinction. An advocate of preparedness, he strongly supported General Wood's Plattsburg Officers' Training Camp System. Attending the first Plattsburg business man's camp, he became a major in May, 1919, and returned from France after the armistice as a Colonel on General Pershing's Staff. During...
...banker once said, "If I could place to the credit of each man and woman in the community a savings deposit of one dollar I could make thrifty thousands where there have been only thousands of spenders, and I could build the greatest bank per population in the land...