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...Though William Chapman Potter has been a banker since 1912. he started out as a mining engineer, ran Guggenheim affairs in Mexico for two years. He was elected president of Guaranty Trust Co. in 1921, chairman of the board in 1934. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that he had been elected a director, succeeding George W. Davison, chairman of Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
Divorced. Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton Guggenheim, 34, New York socialite-horsewoman ; from Colonel Meyer Robert Guggenheim, heir of the Guggenheim mining and smelting fortune; charging cruelty; in Reno. Three nights after her divorce, Mrs. Guggenheim having flown East, celebrated on Long Island with her horse trainer, John Fry Jr., 23. About dawn next morning they appealed to police with cuts, bruises, and a tale of being attacked and robbed of $460. After investigation the police intimated that it was a case not of robbery but revelry...
...Institutions at which Guggenheim fellows are located...
...first note of awe in Author O'Connor's account comes with his description of how the Guggenheims got into the mining business. Preferring to loan money personally rather than trust the banks. Meyer put up $25,000 with a speculating Quaker named Charles Graham, who for $4,000 had bought a water-filled, 70-ft. silver mine in Leadville, Colo. It turned out to be the richest mine in the Rockies. The only Jew in turbulent Leadville, Meyer, now past 50, decided to build his own smelter because he was annoyed with smelter fees. Said a superintendent...
Although Harvey O'Connor assiduously notes scandals in connection with Guggenheim labor, politics, financing, the general impression communicated by The Guggenheims is that the family comes off better than do the principals of most comparable studies of recent years. What takes the curse off their name seems to be less Guggenheim philanthropy (the $7,000,000 Guggenheim Fund for needy artists, writers and scholars, the $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, a dozen others) than a general Guggenheim picturesqueness. When Simon was accused of having bought his Senatorship, he answered blandly: "It is done...