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...House Committee and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the State have talked long, often and seriously. The conversations have extended to 22 great banks, including Speyer & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. The conversations ended with promises of a million dollars from each bank and the choice of Mr. Gibson as the man to handle the money...
When bankers gathered in Manhattan last month to choose a chairman for the New York Unemployment Relief Committee under National Chairman Walter Sherman Gifford, they picked Banker Gibson. Last week, besides leading his big band of banks, he was busy getting ready an organization to help his city face the Winter. He was easily Wall Street's man of the week...
...Harvey Dow Gibson was born in North Conway. N. H. Now he lives on a great estate at Locust Valley. He rides after hounds with the Meadowbrook and wears on his chin the scar of a fall. Every morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial...
...story of Manufacturers Trust Co. is not so serene as the story of Mr. Gibson. Founded in Brooklyn in 1905 as Citizens Trust Co. by the Jewish Nathan S. Jonas, it was the first Brooklyn bank to invade Manhattan. By June 1930 it had 45 units in Greater New York, with over 350 millions in deposits. Large stock ownership in the bank had gone to the banking house of Goldman. Sachs & Co. Goldman. Sachs and others planned a huge bank merger: International Trust plus Manufacturers Trust plus Bank of United States plus Public National, to equal one bank with deposits...
Head of a bank that had felt depositor timidity to the extent of over $100,000,000. Mr. Gibson has been interested vitally in improving depositors' courage. While other bankers have held aloof from the efforts of Bank Superintendent Broderick, Mr. Gibson has listened to his problems, given him his aid. Significance of last week's consortium was that the banking fraternity had decided they were all concerned with depositors' courage and that Banker Gibson was on the right track to do something constructive about it. When the banks were ready Superintendent Broderick, already dealing with...