Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mover in group banking, was perhaps principal factor in formation of Marine Midland Corp. But unlike Banker Rand, Mr. Stauffen did not learn his banking behind cages and over ledgers. Graduated from Columbia in 1904, he practiced law, then became vice president in charge of finance of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan merchants. In 1915 he was made a vice president of the Liberty National Bank, kept the position when this institution was merged with The New York Trust Co., of which he is now senior vice president. Over six feet, well dressed, he likes ranches, golf, tennis, romping with younger financiers...
Founder Harris died in 1916. By that time N. W. Harris & Co. opened a Manhattan branch in 1890. This branch thrived under the direction of partner N. Wetmore Halsey* and later of partner Allen B. Forbes and became Harris, Forbes & Co. There are today Harris, Forbes & Co. branches in Boston, Montreal and London, the original N. W. Harris Co. survives in the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. Mr. Forbes died in 1923, and Lloyd W. Smith, Harris, Forbes president since 1921, became also chairman...
Married. Miss Gertrude Ellen du Puy Sanford of Manhattan, sister of Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford (international poloist and turfman), to Sidney Jennings Legendre of New Orleans, La., Princeton athlete (1925) and adventurer (she went with him last year to the Mountains of the Moon, Abyssinia, on a museum trip); in Manhattan...
...present his assistant is lone Robinson of California, onetime helper of U. S. Artist Rockwell Kent. In the Kent Manhattan household she lived for a year, working on colored illustrations for Voltaire's Candide. Later she went to southern France, hired a peasant's house, planned to stay and paint. The house had no hot water, no heating, no light; Artist Robinson fell sick, returned to Los Angeles, whence she went to Mexico City...
Engaged. Miss Louise Iselin of Manhattan, daughter of Ernest Iselin, banker (A. Iselin & Co.); to Count Leonardo Mercati of Paris, stepson of Baron Emerich von Pflugl, Austrian representative at the League of Nations...