Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert Henry Wiggin, Chairman of the Governing Board of Chase National Bank...
Last week the Treasury prepared to print its biggest negotiable security-a $1,000,000 certificate. Ordinary currency stops at the $10,000 bill bearing the portrait of Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury (1861-64), Chief Justice of the U. S. (1864-73). U. S. bonds are not issued for more than $100,000. About four times the size of a dollar bill and engraved on the same paper stock, the $1,000,000 certificates-there will be 500 of them-will be used for the Treasury's short term financing of a year or less...
...biggest banker in the U. S. he is usually the quietest. He makes few pronunciamentos. When he does speak as a banker his words carry world weight. Banker Wiggin's address to Chase stock holders last January was front-page news round the world. Said...
Next move was to invite representatives of twelve creditor nations to appear before the committee. Most important of these gentlemen was, of course, the U. S. representative, the Committee's president, Mr. Wiggin, who was empowered to act not only for Chase National, but for all New York banks...
...Unitarian minister in Massachusetts, he went to work in the local bank at 17. At 26 he could really call himself a banker: he was made assistant cashier. In 1899 ne went to New York and became vice president of National Park Bank. In 1904 he went to the Chase as a vice president, became its president seven years later...