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Officers were announced as Mr. Rand, president, Ernest Stauffen Jr., chairman of the board of directors, Harral S. Tenney, vice president. Banker Stauffen, enthusiastic, has been a prime mover in group banking, was perhaps principal factor in formation of Marine Midland Corp. But unlike Banker Rand, Mr. Stauffen did not learn his banking behind cages and over ledgers. Graduated from Columbia in 1904, he practiced law, then became vice president in charge of finance of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan merchants. In 1915 he was made a vice president of the Liberty National Bank, kept the position when this institution was merged...
...confused with his brother, the late James Henry Rand, founder of the Rand Kardex Co. which was later merged (1927) to form Remington Rand, Inc., manufacturers of office equipment. Board chairman of Remington Rand, Inc. now is James Henry Rand Jr., cooperating cousin of Banker George Franklin Rand...
...biggest privately owned yacht in the world is the Orion, 333 ft. long and 46 ½ ft. wide. Last week it arrived in the U. S. from the builder's yards at Kiel on its first trip; on board was Owner Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J. The Orion is a white ship, one-funnelled, 3,096 tons, 1,800 h. p. (twin Diesels), with a crew of 54 officers and men (including a purser, a doctor). She cruised to the U. S. from Kiel via the Barbados and Havana. This autumn Yachtsman Forstmann will take...
...Corn Exchange will lose its identity; Walter E. Frew, its board chairman, will probably become a National City director, retire from active banking. Able, dynamic, forceful Charles Edwin Mitchell, since 1921 National City head, will dominate the merged institution. So swiftly did Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Frew consummate the merger that even the rumormongers were taken by surprise. The Corn Exchange has the largest number of local branches (68) in the city...
...Lebor, chairman; R. M. Cunningham, secretary. Executive Committee: R. M. Cunningham, J. F. Lebor, A. B. Quinton, Jr., W. V. Strauss. Board of Editors: M. Bower, D. R. Falk, J. D. Fewster, J. K. Heyman, W. J. Kirk, A. E. McCrann, J. J. Madigan, G. Machune, M. H. Oettinger, C. S. Reynolds, A. Shephard, W. E. Slaughter, H. E. Sternau, S. F. Teele, J. A. Thomas, R. T. Wise...