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...Plan (see p. 13) which he read to his visitors at 9 p. m. The meeting adjourned at midnight. Next afternoon President Hoover held another long conference with builders, financiers, real estate men-notably Clarence Dillon of the Manhattan brokerage firm of Dillon, Read & Co. and President William Aiken Starrett of Starrett Corp. Purpose: to devise some means of liquidating badly deflated real estate mortgages throughout the land...
...idea of a new and modern Waldorf-Astoria is credited to the mind of Louis J. Horowitz, chairman of Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., builders. The present board of directors includes nine men who can be identified with Thompson-Starrett. Among them is Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co., one of the firms that sold the Waldorf's bond issue. It was he who drove the first rivet (gold) and troweled the final stone. Also on the directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience...
Died. Ralph Starrett, 62, brother of Paul and Col. William Aiken Starrett...
Help, too, may come from such Old Boys as: Paul Starrett, Manhattan contractor; John Villiers Farwell, Chicago financier, Yale trustee; Hopewell Lindenberger Rogers, onetime treasurer of the Chicago Daily News; Walter Byron Smith, director of Illinois Tool Works; President Henry Willis Phelps of American Can Co.; Frederick Tudor Haskell, director Continental Illinois Bank & Trust...
...lobby of the Chrysler Building. Chaste in black and white marble is the first floor of the Bank of Manhattan Building. The Chrysler architect is William Van Alen, the builder Fred T. Ley. Architects of the Bank of Manhattan were H. Craig Severance and Yasuo Matsui, the builder Thompson-Starrett...