Word: pynchon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seamy professionals as well as enthusiastic amateurs. Owner Gubelmann was not aboard Seven Seas last week but his son Walter was. So was 18-year-old George Emlen Roosevelt Jr., cousin of the President, who has crossed the Atlantic 14 times under sail. On the Conrad were George M. Pynchon Jr., crack blue-water yachtsman, and Vadim Makaroff, son of a Russian admiral and second husband of young Owner Hartford's thrice-married sister, Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell Makaroff Douglas...
Last week in Washington an Associated Pressman had a talk about Reedsville with Charles E. Pynchon, the big, genial, earnest onetime Chicago steelman who took over the general managership of Subsistence Homesteads when its original director, Milburn Lincoln Wilson, moved to the Department of Agriculture. Afterward the APer filed a dispatch quoting Manager Pynchon to the effect that the Government stood to lose $500,000 on the Reedsville project, with blame laid partly on "experimentation," partly on "errors in judgment." He also revealed that the President's No. 1 Secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, purchaser of the famed CCC toilet...
...days later Manager Pynchon flatly denied having said anything about "experimentation," "errors in judgment," or a $500,000 loss. But already Mrs. Roosevelt and Col. Howe had stepped forward not to deny but to excuse the loss at Reedsville...
...Harley Lyman Clarke, who had previously garnered a fortune in utility promotion, G. T. E. swelled from a small concern with a promising film projector into an overripe holding company controlling among other things Fox Film Corp. Its decline & fall pulled down the old stock exchange houses of Pynchon & Co. and West & Co. and cost Chase Bank more millions than Mr. Wiggin cares to remember...
...command. At that time Mr. Wiggin ruled a bigger bank than any American before or since: a bank with $148,000,000 each of capital and surplus, with over $2,000,000,000 in deposits. Days of trouble followed. Some of Mr. Wiggin's banking clients (Pynchon & Co., Fox Film, German debtors, etc.) had their share of it. Result: the gossip in the market place was not pleasant for Chase officials to listen to. Time came when the Rockefellers felt apparently that the Chase should be run in a far different way. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Rockefeller brother...