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...Exchange stopped trading long enough to hear President Whitney solemnly announce a suspension -first in more than a year. To the members assembled and to U. S. citizens young & old, the name that President Whitney uttered was associated not with banking or finance but with cowpunching. Partner John Batterson Stetson Jr. of Philadelphia's Stetson & Blackman is the son of the founder of John B. Stetson Co., whose hats were (and still are) as much a fixture of the cow country from Athabasca Landing to the Strait of Magellan as the cows themselves...
...Broker Stetson stayed with his father's venerable firm for only a few years after he was graduated from Harvard in 1906. South American archeology and ethnology interested him much more than hats. At the start of the War he jumped into aviation, flew for a year in France. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him Minister to Poland. After he resigned in 1930, he formed a brokerage firm with a Philadelphia banker, Daniel S. Blackman. Broker Stetson, who was reported to have put up the capital, became the floor member. Last week although receivers listed Stetson & Blackman...
...After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect the lives and persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister to Jugoslavia. ¶ After a week in Washington, President Roosevelt planned to return to Hyde Park to finish his vacation. Over Labor Day week-end he would cruise back to the Capital aboard Vincent Astor's big white Nourmahal...
...five newly elected members of the business board are James Edward Downes, Jr. '35, Abbot Wilson Sherwood, Jr. '35, Thomas Dickinson Spencer '34, Warren Batcheller Stetson '35, and Samuel Epes Turner...
...Moon passes over the Atlantic the distance between London and Manhattan stretches by 63 ft., possibly the result of tidal pull.-Alfred Lee Loomis (Manhattan), Professor Harlan True Stetson (Ohio Wesleyan...