Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman of Chase National Bank, passed silently through Paris last week on his way to Basle, refusing all interviews. The Chase is not only "biggest bank in the world," but it probably has the largest share of all U. S. investments in Germany, the greatest desire to restore German prosperity. French editors therefore regarded Banker Wiggin's coming (as U. S. member of the Bank for International Settlements' committee to study Germany's credit needs) somewhat sourly. Wrote the Journal des Debats: "This time the attempt which is being made is to hand...
Cuba's entire navy put to sea. Army planes roared off from Havana Field to join the chase, but the Coral was too sly for them, slipped away in the haze...
Headed Total Business Chase Harris Forbes...
Wiggin. Another indirect promise of help for Britain came from the U. S. last week. Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman of Chase National Bank (world's biggest) sailed for Europe to take his place as U. S. representative on the Bank for International Settlements' committee to study Germany's credit needs and the possibility of turning short term credits into long terms. Great Britain's troubles are interwoven with Germany's. Chairman Wiggin will have to ponder them as well. Englishmen remembered last week that as long ago as January Chairman Wiggin urged a general...
...Author. Stuart Chase, 43, a moody-looking, brown-skinned, snub-nosed man with strong opinions and a flair for eye-catching phraseology, comes from New England but talks more like a Southerner. A Harvardman, he went from college to his father's Boston accounting office. But he did not like accounting; after the War he went to Manhattan and began to write magazine articles, mostly about economic waste. Even before the Depression he made a hit with The Tragedy of Waste. He is the only U. S. author to make three book clubs: Your Money's Worth (with...