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After dark Wall Street tiptoed down Pennsylvania Avenue, turned softly in at the White House, stayed for dinner. Afterwards in the quiet security of an upstairs study President Hoover heard Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Allen Ledyard Lindley, its vice president, talk about the stockmarket, bear raids, short sales. President Hoover was vitally interested because the recent fall of stocks below the lows of last November's crash focused the business depression in all its gloom before a nationwide electorate on its way to the polls...
Once he telephoned Morgan Partner Ledyard, said he was Congressman (later Attorney-General) A. Mitchell Palmer, suggested that Mr. Ledyard interview a man who could fix J. P. Morgan with the Democratic Administration. Soon afterward Wolf Lamar was convicted, jailed for impersonating a Government officer...
Sued for Divorce. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, grandson of late great John Pierpont Morgan; by Mrs. Marie Louise Hamilton, daughter of C. Ledyard Blair, rich Manhattan broker; at Reno, Nev. Grounds: desertion, mental cruelty...
Married. Ruth Emery Ledyard, granddaughter of Lewis Gass Ledyard, Manhattan lawyer and bank director; and William de Rham, Manhattan scion; in Manhattan...
...Counsel were Messrs. Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins; Messrs. Carter, Ledyard & Milburn.*All these materials are still used in the head of the modern safety match...