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Married. Miss Edwina Haskell Morrow, daughter of onetime (1919-23) Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; to Dr. Charles Joseph Horgan of Washington, D. C.; in Washington...
Died. Frank T. Gilmore, 65, of Hartford, Conn.; oldtime baseballer; in Hartford. When, in the '80s, Hartford was in the National League, he pitched. His catcher was Connie Mack (Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy), longtime Philadelphia manager (see p...
Died. John Cotton Dana, 72, of Newark, N. J., Librarian of the Newark Public Library, Director of the Newark Museum Association; in Manhattan (see p...
This success resulted partly from the character of the directorate, partly from the executive ability of President Herbert P. Howell and his officers, partly from favorable banking conditions. The directorate includes such men as Clement M. Keys (Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles), Lewis J. Horowitz (Thompson-Starrett, skyscrapers), Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Robert Lehman (Lehman Bros.), William Wrigley Jr. (gum), R. P. Stevens (Niagara-Hudson Power Corp., Morgan utility) and William H. Vanderbilt...
President Herbert P. Howell, onetime Carnegie Steel Co. executive, went from Pittsburgh to Manhattan in 1912 to become vice president of National Bank of Commerce. Here he had ample opportunity to study the workings of a Big Bank of the merging type.* Recognizing the power & potency of the Big Bank, Mr. Howell realized also that its very bigness left room for a smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital...