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...Assistant Secretary James Henderson ("Jim") Douglas Jr., by far the best looking member of the Hoover sub-Cabinet, a product of Chicago and Princeton (1920) whose mind and manners are as accurate and pleasant to behold as his superb golf game. Before going into the banking business (Field, Glore & Co.) he was an attorney (Winston, Strawn & Shaw), never worked for Quaker Oats Co. of which his father was executive committee chairman. He was called to Washington last spring when his fellow Princetonian, Walter E. Hope of New York, resigned. Of late he has been giving most of his time...
...find channels through which the new credit could be pumped out to "reflate" trade & finance. On the committee, besides leading bankers, were such potent Chicago industrialists as President Alexander Legge of International Harvester Co.; President David A. Crawford of Pullman Co.; Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman was Sewell Lee Avery, able president of U. S. Gypsum Co. and of Montgomery Ward. "I have no magic in my briefcase and no rabbit in my hat," said Secretary Mills. The first week...
That Columbia Broadcasting System was worth more than ten million last week nobody seemed to doubt. At first competitive bidders but finally fellow stock-holders with President Paley were Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., Lehman Corp., Field, Glore & Co. and Herbert Bayard Swope. Columbia's gross business in 1931 was $11,000,000. It owns five stations outright, has 91 affiliates, is the world's largest radio broadcasting system...
...investors from artificial depression of the price of securities for speculative profit." ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate $1,000,000 for Federal participation in the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. ¶The President appointed James H. Douglas Jr., 33, Princetonian ('20) and partner in Field, Glore & Co., Chicago investment house, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Onwentsia Club in smart Lake Forest, polo has been less a one-man affair, more of a game, with Broker Charles Foster Glore and Major Frederic McLaughlin (Coffee, Irene Castle's husband) as guiding spirits. There were a few Army teams to play with, but by & large Chicago polo was unorganized. Major McLaughlin last winter decided something ought to be done. He suggested to President Louis Stoddard of the U. S. Polo Association that a series of international matches be played at Onwentsia. Mr. Stoddard said that would be fine but they would have to be financed. Major McLaughlin...