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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollis Hall in which he has so long lived. To the undergraduates of the present and succeeding years the loss is greatest, for there is none to play his special role. His old "boys", who number many of the leading writers in the country and not a few bank presidents, Government officials and great lawyers, will be glad to learn that he is to retain his rooms in Hollis Hall which they knew so well in their undergraduate days. There they will be sure to find him sitting, as usual, by the coal grate in his book-lined room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

Elected. Eugene R. Black, onetime president of the Atlanta Trust Co., to be governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank; to succeed Maximilian Bethune Wellborn, retired after 13 years as governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...well for Robert Clarkson that his able efforts in the Chase Bank came to the notice of a discerning eye. In almost every efficient organization, however chaotic its workings may seem, there is one man, who may be the assistant cashier but who is more likely to be the president, whose function is to handle the controls. Albert Henry Wiggin occupied this position at the Chase National Bank, from 1911 to 1918, and again from 1921 to 1926* under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young President | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...frequently found and fitted with a slipper of gold instead of glass, that the tale has lost its edge. Yet, last week, Wall Street men perused with interest the news that 36 year-old Robert Livingston Clarkson had been elected president of the second largest U. S. national bank, the Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many of them had been a canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young President | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...navy, where he had been an ensign, he was aware of certain defects in his financial education that might forbid the eminence which he desired. Instead of rejoining his firm, he joined the Chase Securities Corporation, then spent a year in the credit department of the bank. So doing, he attracted the favorable attention of the president of the Chase Bank, Albert Henry Wiggin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young President | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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