Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons" invited last week to help draft the bank charter received cable-grams from Governor Émile Moreau of the Bank of France. In the case of the Allied Powers, M. Moreau was told whom to invite by the governors of the respective banks of issue who all chose financiers from within their own organizations. Thus keen, patrician Montagu Collet Nor:nan, Governor of the Bank of England, chose a famed member of its board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests...
Grumpy Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank refused to tell M. Moreau what Germans to invite, put him in a quandary. Dr. Schacht was wroth at the known intention of the Allies to convene the bank charter committee in Brussels? hotbed of hostility to the Reich. Presently correspondents learned at the Bank of France that the committee would probably meet in some other city, and it was believed that Dr. Schacht would cooperate on that basis...
John Pierpont Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, and Owen D. Young, who was in Canada, advised M. Moreau by cable whom to invite from the U. S. Europe today knows better than to expect the President of the U. S. or Federal Reserve Bank Governor Roy Archibald Young to take such responsibility. Messrs. Morgan and Young went to the original Young Plan Conference (and dominated it) backed only by their enormous prestige...
Similarly the two U. S. citizens who last week accepted invitations to sit on the bank charter committee pack their own potency. They must have plenty. They are Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of First National Bank of New York, and Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago...
...took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...