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Leading New Orleans bankers and State officials went into an all-night huddle. President Hecht, a swart, smallish man with glistening black hair and a thick cropped mustache, was in a tight fix. For years he fought branchbanking as "financial feudalism" and ''economic vassalage." Last autumn when he was elected second vice president of the American Bankers Association, thus assuring him of the presidency in 1935, he ate his words and said: "We cannot stem the tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years...
...form another great Eastern system which would be L. F. Loree's monument. As a railroad man in the gaudy tradition of Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill, Leonor Loree was known & feared, but Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill had their big systems and bearded old Mr. Loree had only the smallish Delaware & Hudson and Kansas City Southern. Between them was a great gap. But L. F. Loree was tenacious...
James William Stevens, a shrewd, smallish old man who used to prowl around the Loop on Sundays spotting likely real estate propositions, is head of the family and was chairman of both the insurance company and the Stevens and La Salle Hotels. Son Raymond William was president of Illinois Life. Genial, square-faced Son Ernest James is the active hotel man who now often says: "I feel as if I were a hundred...
...week for their jobs), she lives on swank Park Avenue. Her daughter Gladys married Harry Montrose Graham two years ago. Son Allan, 37, has had complete charge of the coffee business for several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative and culinary genius of the business. Her precept: "Remember that cleanliness is next to godliness and invest everything that you use in connection with coffee with...
...whose names are famed to sugar. Earl D. Babst of American Sugar Refining Co., great & good friend of Herbert Hoover. was its first president. Rudolph Spreckels served one term, James Howell Post of National Sugar Refining is now president. Often called Brooklyn's first citizen, Mr. Post is a smallish man, stooped, white-haired, interested in missionary, charity work. Representative of the late Henry O. Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust which was dissolved in 1922, he has been National's president since 1900. Under such men the Institute has accomplished its purpose. Marketing of refined sugar has become uniform...