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...Wiggin's current offer was made in connection with two other offers of $250,000 each from the estates of Charles Hayden and Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr., both of whom were Chase directors and defendants in the stockholders' action. The suit, said Mr. Wiggin, was hampering proper administration of the two estates, and their offers were not to be construed as a posthumous confession of remissness. While flatly denying the validity of the charges, Mr. Wiggin declared: "In view of the fact that I was the senior executive officer charged with the management of the affairs of both...
...Washington. Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon bumped a taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley...
...younger than Franklin so that, although they knew each other from childhood, they were not at that time good friends. From 1907 on, while Vincent, an ungainly boy, was still in school at Newport, Franklin Roosevelt was already a budding young lawyer, working for the Manhattan firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In that capacity he helped look after many legal details connected with the huge real estate holdings of Vincent's father, John Jacob Astor...
...voting was as follows: For President Thomas Herbert Bilodeau, Jr. 218 Charles Colmery Gibson 174 Garrow Throop Geer, Jr. 165 John Bradford Bowditch 80 John David Barnes 32 For Vice-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. 227 William Henry Schmidt, II 130 Paul Ledyard Van Cleve, III 127 Leavitt Sargent White 105 James Brewster Hallett 80 For Secretary-Treasurer Anthony S.J. Tomasello 112 John MacIntosh Calloway 77 George Gordon Hedblom...
...Paul Ledyard Van Cleve...