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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these traits are traceable to William McChesney Martin Sr. That Kentucky-born fundamentalist worked his way through law school by teaching, soon shifted from law to banking, has long been president of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. This is a high-sounding but not very potent job and the Martins continue to live quietly in the modest three-story house at No. 5055 Waterman Avenue, a nice but not ultra-fashionable district...
...became a crack golf, squash and tennis player. At St. Louis Country Day School, his headmaster remembers him as having "no froth, no social stirrings." At Yale, where he graduated in 1928, his social stirrings were inadequate to get him into a fraternity, but he did make the tennis team and the editorial staff of the News...
...graduation only three of his classmates thought him "most likely to succeed." Having majored in English literature, Bill Martin had ideas of teaching, instead became a clerk in his father's bank at $67.50 a month. Thence he moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations...
...FOLLOW SAINT PATRICK-Oliver St...
...Ireland without St. Patrick is unthinkable," declares Gogarty. "Every person in our island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies...