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...Gates W. McGarrah...
...Basle Mr. Wiggin went into conference with B. I. S. President Gates W. McGarrah, emerged and was immediately elected President of the Committee. France had an able champion to tilt against him. Her delegate was canny Emile Moreau, onetime Governor of the Bank of France...
Banker John Pierpont Morgan was in Paris, on his way to a boating trip in the Mediterranean with his good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury. A Morgan Partner who had been in Madrid hurried to the meeting; so did Gates W. McGarrah, president of the Bank for International Settlements. King Alfonso went to Paris too, officially to break his journey to Madrid. Three days later came the announcement: an international credit of $60,000,000 for the Spanish Government had been established. J. P. Morgan & Co. and associates (Chase National Bank; Bankers Trust Co.; National City Bank; Guaranty Trust...
...factual part of the test proved quite difficult, the identification questions causing more trouble than usual. Such, names as Gates W. McGarrah, Amy Johnson, and "Enterprise", were wrongly identified by a majority of the contestants. In the second and more important section of the quiz, short essays between 250 and 600 words in length, the Wickersham Report, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Conflict between Mr. Hoover and Congress were the most popular of the subjects offered. In commenting on the contest, Mr. Wright said that the papers were of an unusually high standard and displayed evidence of intensive...
...Came too the man who is reorganizing the French sugar industry, M. Edmond Sommier of the refineries that bear his name. Also M. Eugene Schneider whose big and little guns are so esteemed. Down sat all to fork and sip with such equals as Manhattan's Gates W. McGarrah, now president of Europe's B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Paris house...