Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House dinner for French Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux found themselves, like many other Americans, discussing the U.S. economy. Both had a good deal to say, and they disagreed in some important particulars. One was President Kennedy. The other was David Rockefeller, 47, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank (the nation's second largest), Harvard man, Republican, and younger brother of New York's Governor. As they talked, the President asked Rockefeller to set down his views about the economy in a personal letter. This week LIFE printed Rockefeller's letter to Kennedy, together...
...products) announced that it had spent about $750,000 to buy one recent painting each by a representative selection of the nation's top artists. It was the largest single industrial investment in art to date, bigger even than the collection at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. More important than the size of the investment was the quality it had bought. When Director James Rorimer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art saw transparencies of the paintings, he said they formed the finest collection of current American art he had ever seen...
Tracing his decline makes a fascinating paper chase, which is the substance of this collection of essays, reviews and memoirs...
Behind the mace-bearer in the traditional procession to the Memorial Church steps, Morgan escorted Marshall before a group of eleven other distinguished honorary degree recipitents. Among them that day were T.S. Ellot, James Wadsworth, I.A. Richards, J. Robert Oppenheimer, George Henry Chase (former dean of Harvard), W. Hodding Carter, Jr. (editor of the Delta, Miss. Democratic-Times), Frank L. Boyden (headmaster of Deerfield Academy), and Gen Omar N. Bradley, the other afternoon speaker...
...They Come. With all this in mind, businessmen and economists are soberly reconsidering their timetables for recession. Many who had originally predicted that the recovery would run through most of next year now figure that it will run out of steam in early 1963, or even in late 1962. Chase Manhattan Bank Economist William Butler expects a downturn to occur by Christmas. General Electric Co., which had expected that the economy would go on improving till next spring, is now operating on the assumption that it will begin to top out in this year's last quarter...