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...Adopted at 18 months by a wealthy couple who educated him as a lawyer, Leon Fraser had never worked in a bank that received or paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans...
...Brooks '37, John H. Burns '37, William G. Burt '38, Hallock G. Campbell, Gr., Courtland Canby '36, Edward T. Canby, Gr., Robert S. Chafee '36, William V. Doering '38, George Ehrenfried '35, John H. Eric '37, Matin S. Erlanger '38, Eben H. Fiske ocC., H. Walter Forster '36, William Fraser '38, Richard L. Gregg '38, N. Babcock Groton '37, Arthur R. Hartwig '37, Morrison C. Haviland '37, Malcolm L. Hayward '38, Hugh F. Hinckley '87, James C. Hopkins '38, William A. Johnson '36, George Keller '37, Morris E. Lasker '38, John B. Little '36, David P. MacAllester '38, David MacDonald...
...months, lusty, Boston-born Leon Fraser was adopted by a wealthy couple named Bonar. At 20 he flunked out of Columbia University, returned the next year to win every money prize offered for scholarship. A lawyer by training, he had never worked in a bank that received or paid out cash when, at 43, he was elected president of the Bank for International Settlements. B. I. S., known as the "Bank without a Vault,"* had been handling Reparations payments under the Young Plan. When the Young Plan payments were stopped by President Hoover's moratorium, Banker Fraser helped develop...
...Gabriel G. Cillie 2G, Manley B. Cohen '36, Louis H. Conger '37, Stewart M. Dall '38, Nixon de Tarnowsky '35, Richard H. Dennis '36, George Ehrenfried '35, John H. Eric '37, Martin S. Erlanger '38, Egbert W. Fischer '36, Walter D. Fisher '37, Hans W. Forster '36, William D. Fraser '38, Emil J. Ganem '37, John H. Gilbert '36, James H. Goulder '36, Nathaniel B. Groton...
...volunteers will devote their spare time either in the afternoon or evening at the Republican headquarters in Cambridge. Mr. Fraser said that the amount of time a man could lend made little difference. Jobs will be open to applicants until Election Day, Tuesday, November...