Word: mcchesney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago a graduating Yaleman named William McChesney Martin Jr. polled three votes as "most likely to succeed'' in his class. Last week 31-year-old Bill Martin was unanimously elected to the No. 1 financial job of Wall Street- president of the New York Stock Exchange. To the general public, which had heard rumors that the Exchange was considering for its first paid president such assorted personages as North Carolina's onetime Governor O. Max Gardner ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley, and University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, this was something of a surprise. To Wall...
...clerk in the Wall St. law offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, but that firm is prouder of the fact that in its 55 years as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing...
Chairmanship of this group went to 31-year-old William McChesney Martin Jr. Last week Paul Shields landed a berth as head of the important public relations committee. Next job ahead of the new management is the selection of the first paid president in the Exchange's history. Meanwhile Chairman Martin will fill the job. Last week, chaperoned by Bill Douglas, he bustled off to Washington, to get Franklin Roosevelt's benediction...
University of Wisconsin (Madison Wis.) Martha McChesney Berry of the Berry Schools (Mount Berry, Ga.).... LL.D. President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology .....LL.D...
...Berry Pilgrimage'' gotten up and directed by a younger woman. Manhattan's Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mrs. Hammond has taken 157 Berry Pilgrims to Georgia, to interest them in giving money and show them "the greatest humanitarian project being carried out in America." In 1901 Martha McChesney Berry, daughter of a socialite Georgia planter, casually began holding Sunday School for mountain children, in a log cabin on her father's estate near Rome. Soon her Sunday School overflowed; she founded another in nearby 'Possum Trot. Next year Miss Berry opened day schools, then a boarding...