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Long Tradition. Bowman Gray is the product of a long and inbred family tradition at Reynolds???though his family is no direct relation to the Reynolds clan...
They were each Chicago's big banks?the Continental & Commercial National Bank and the Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank. They were owned by practically the same stockholders and led by the very same men? the brothers Reynolds???George McClelland Reynolds the elder and chairman of the boards of both banks, and Arthur Reynolds, younger by three years and president of both. Practically, the same banks were one Continental & Commercial institution; legally they were separate, for until the passage of the McFadden Branch Banking act by Congress last session (TIME, Jan. 31), national banks might not function as trustees. Banks incorporated...
Among other bequests were: The famous Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire and Bodiam Castle in Sussex?to the British nation; his collection of Oriental treasures?to the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington (London) ; portrait of General Lawrence by Sir Joshua Reynolds???to the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta; his famous Napoleonic library, containing hundreds of books?to Oxford University, or, if refused, to the British Museum; his confidential papers relating to his resignation of the Viceroyalty in India (over a feud with the then General Sir Herbert Horatio Kitchener)?to the British Museum, with injunction "to exercise sound discretion...
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