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...position; his family have been Europe's armorers since before the French Revolution--although the De Wendels have not always been French nor, even always the De Wendels. There was once a Johann Georg von Wendel, who in the seventeenth century was a colonel in the armies of Ferdinand III of Germany. Since his time, however, the family generally has preferred to remain out of uniform, on the theory that in uniform there is no higher title or power than that of general; whereas by the process of foregoing the title, the power may be vastly increased. The members...
This international hermaphrodites is not a now family trait. The son of Johann Georg von Wendel, who fought for the German Ferdinand III blossomed late Christian de Wendel, who was a follower of Charles IV of Lorraine. For a good period of years the family retained the prefix De; Christian's grandson, Ignace, was the true founder of the family's fortune--and this curiously enough, began when he established at Creusot the works that the Schuoiders were later to buy. When the Bastille fell Iguace's lose relations with the menarchy drove him from the country. His properties were...
...sort of financial Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; we want to kill the jackal but save the hide." When the House passed (280-to-84) the bill and sent it to the Senate, everyone knew that the final draft, with promised revisions, would ultimately be written in conference. Only Ferdinand Pecora, Senate Banking & Currency Committee counsel, pretended to believe that the opponents of stockmarket regulation still had a chance of working their will against the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and country. Therefore, as if to wither them with one last blast and put the control bill over the Congressional hump...
...history. Last week the Committee's catch-all investigation threw new light not only on the profits of brokers (see p. 66) but also on closed Cleveland banks. For the failure of $250,000,000 Union Trust Co. and $148,000,000 Guardian Trust Co. Ferdinand Pecora's staff blamed: 1) mismanagement; 2) a lax-Ohio Banking Department; 3) evasions of the spirit of the law. The investigators declared that Guardian Trust was "hopelessly insolvent" a year before it was closed by the banking moratorium, never to reopen, that it "has never published a statement of condition which...
...Clifton Ferdinand Kann '37, of New York, N. Y., was made assistant Freshman manager. Kann prepared for Harvard at the McBurnie School. Samuel Howard Donnell, Jr. '37, of Peabody, who prepared at Andover, was appointed manager of the Second Freshman team...