Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed for the world-sweep of its interests?so Lehman is famed for almost sensationally successful financing in recent years. Significant is Lehman's entrance into aviation financing, which so far has interested only a few of the big houses?e. g., Hayden, Stone & Co., National City. P. W. Chapman, Pynchon. Salesmen of Aviation Corp. stock (which is not to be confused with Richard F. Hoyt's Aviation Corp. of America) suggested that it might become the Electric Bond & Share of aviation...
...House of Morgan, with the Morgan influence especially strong in Guaranty Trust. It was the late great Morgan Partner Henry P. Davison, who, in 1909, began Guaranty's period of swift expansion. Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney are present Guaranty Morganites. President of Guaranty Trust is blond William Chapman Potter, onetime mining engineer; Chairman of its Board is swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, onetime Massachusetts farm-boy. They are brothers-in-law, their wives being daughters of the late Paul Morton, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy...
...Chapman company is not a shipping concern, but sells bonds and real estate, and apparently Mr. Sheedy, the principal promoter, is the real purchaser of the ships. It looks like a promotion scheme, and I appeal to the Senate to stop this paper sale...
Mildly defiant, the Shipping Board answered the Senate obliquely by voting (6 to 1) to accept the Chapman bid, subject to further consultation...
...George Chapman", Professor Murray, Harvard...