Word: frothingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frosty, white-haired President Francis Edward Frothingham of the Investment Bankers Association of America has a watch which, besides telling the time, boasts a chime, a barometer and a gadget that registers how the moon will be each night. Last week as I. B. A. gathered for its annual convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the moon was only a thin sliver - an appropriate symbol for the investment banking business. Keynoted retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average...
This familiar dearth of new financing was admittedly I. B. A.'s big problem, but last week the 585 merry conferees produced no new explanations for it, no new remedies. In his opening address Banker Frothingham gave measured expression to I. B. A.'s usual explanation-that the New Deal is to blame. Said he: "Business still feels the gravest concern and hesitancy to venture, in the atmosphere of restrictions and penalties that confront it." Nonetheless, Banker Frothingham gave the New Deal praise for right motives...
Opening service at the Divinity School will be held at 10 o'clock this morning. Arthur D. Nock, Frothingham, Professor of the History of Religion, will deliver the address on "Scholarship and Religion" at Andover Hall...
February 6, Maxwell Finland '22, instructor in Medicine, "Colds, Influenza, and Pneumonia"; February 13, John Rock '14, assistant in Gynaecology, "Menstrual Disorders and the Menopause" (for women only); February 20, F. Dennette Adams, instructor in Medicine, "Overweight and Underweight"; February 27, Channing Frothingham '02, Overseer, and Richard H. Miller '04, clinical professor of Surgery, "Pain in the Abdomen...
Aside from speeches, resolutions and fun, major business of most conventions is electing new officers. Last week, I. B. A. chose to succeed President Hall a distinguished, white-haired Bostonian with a gentle voice named Francis Edward Frothingham, vice president of Coffin & Burr, Inc. since 1916. Born in Brooklyn in 1871, President Frothingham investigated utilities for years for Stone & Webster, was head of the public utilities division of War Finance Corp. An ardent yachtsman and traveler, he lives quietly in Cambridge, Mass, with his wife and daughter, enjoys riding, being vice president of the Boy Scouts of Boston. Said...