Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Forbes and became Harris, Forbes & Co. There are today Harris, Forbes & Co. branches in Boston, Montreal and London, the original N. W. Harris Co. survives in the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. Mr. Forbes died in 1923, and Lloyd W. Smith, Harris, Forbes president since 1921, became also chairman...
...Presi dent Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30, obtained from Yale last June, to be inducted in November, is living temporarily as the house guest of Harold Higgins Swift, potent meat packer and Chicago Trustee. A studio for Mrs. Hutchins, who sculps, was improvised over the Swift garage. Max Epstein, chairman of General American Tank Car Corp., who donated and for whom was named the Epstein Dispensary, has given some $1,000,000 for an art center. For teachers and pictures the university must look elsewhere...
...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...