Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving a directors' meeting of New York City's BMT (subway) in the Chase National Bank building, Herbert Bayard Swope (New York World) was trapped for 48 minutes in a stalled elevator. At his office in the Heckscher Building a few hours later Mr. Swope was locked in the washroom, rattled the doorknob until a secretary...
Gravy. In February 1931, Murray Witherbee Dodge was a vice president of Chase Securities Corp. and Albert Wiggin was chairman of Chase National Bank. Mr. Dodge sent a memorandum to Mr. Wiggin, said that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. might be brought in on Fox financing, added, "I am loath to do [this] unless necessary, as the splitup of the gravy would hurt my feelings." Faced last week, with this memo, Mr. Dodge at first claimed that by gravy he had meant prestige...
...Chase Losses. Mr. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, now Chase chairman, sent an itemized list of his bank's investments in Fox Film and General Theatres Equipment. These figures showed a total investment of $89,330,047, now carried at $19,757,866. Loss to Chase...
Died. Frederic Winthrop Allen, 56, member of Lee. Higginson & Co.. corporation director (Chase National Bank, Shell Union Oil Corp., Otis Elevator and other companies), onetime (1916-26) chairman of Yale's graduate rowing committee; after long illness; in Manhattan. As U. S. bankers for the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger, Lee. Higginson sold some $150,000,000 of Kreuger securities. When Kreuger's suicide toppled the match empire, odium fell on Lee, Higginson for not having insisted on a U. S. audit. Patrician Banker Allen, with seven other directors of International Match Co. (Kreuger affiliate) were sued...
...dinner will be the members-elect, the Junior Eight, the Graduate Council, and Laurence E. Binyon, Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry. Professor George H. Chase, president of the Graduate Council will preside. President Conant, who is honorary president of the Graduate Council, will not be at the dinner, but will afterwards present the keys and certificates to the new members who will also receive copies of the American Scholar and the Phi Beta Kappa Index, the fraternity's official handbook...