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...rear of the hall had to perch on the back of a chair with a pair of binoculars and signal his bids as he got the range. On sale were the furniture, jewelry, silverware and clothing of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, eccentric daughter of pious John Davison Rockefeller...
...that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse of infinity, Charles Hayden was moved as he had rarely been moved before. Back in his Manhattan office, Mr. Hayden heard of plans to supply New York City with a planetarium to match Chicago's. President Frederick Trubee Davison of the American Museum of Natural History had created a planetarium Authority, got RFC's promise to take $650,000 of planetarium bonds to be paid off by millions of 25? admissions. The RFC loan was enough to pay for the building. But additional contributions were needed...
...president of Chase Bank held a relatively "minor" job, being outranked not only by Mr. Wiggin but also by the chairman of the executive committee and the chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Wiggin has been ousted by Chase National's biggest stockholder, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. President Wlnthrop Williams Aldrich is now also chairman of the governing committee. But still wedged in between Mr. Aldrich as undisputed boss and Mr. Aldrich as president are Chairman of the Executive Committee John McHugh and Board Chairman Charles S. McCain. Last week Mr. McHugh, who used...
...city of Cleveland mailed a check for $4,068 to John Davison Rockefeller Sr. as a penalty for selling two strips of Rockefeller Park, exchanging another strip for a piece of land belonging to the Catholic diocese, in violation of its agreement with...
President Davison, scanning the inventory, asked: "How about the engine? and the aerial cameras?" Colonel Lindbergh demurred. The engine, a Wright Cyclone, was practically new, having flown only 250 hours out of a possible 4,000. The cameras, too, would come in handy. Mr. Davison, able museum man that he is, pointed out that the Colonel had offered all his equipment. A nod of the Lindbergh head threw in engine and cameras...