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...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...
...which the Senate thought, on the eve of the Chapman deal's consummation, that" it smelled, was not only a matter of money. Rubicund Senator McKellar of Tennessee complained loudly that a onetime Shipping Board official, Joseph Edward Sheedy, was in shameful cahoots with Mr. Chapman. Cried Senator Mc-Kellar...
...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...