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Whether the Foundation will begin a probe similar to the one which created such a storm when it appeared in 1929, will be decided by an executive committee which includes Frank A. Vanderlip, Thomas W. Lamont '92, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, William A. Nielson, President of Smith College, Dr. Joseph H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and others...
...event, without the U. S. Government's consent. In answer to an inquiry from Morgan & Co. Secretary of State Bryan then announced that loans by U. S. bankers to any belligerent nation would be inconsistent with the country's "true spirit of neutrality." Two months later Mr. Vanderlip told French Ambassador Jusserand that National City Bank would head a syndicate to grant "credits" to the French Government provided the U. S. Government did not object. Counselor Robert Lansing of the State Department, after an interview with President Wilson, notified representatives of Morgan & Co. and the National City Bank...
...most remarkable feature of the career of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, as recounted in From Farm Boy to Financier, is that his progress was so ludicrously easy, since he apparently met with fewer obstacles in his path to the presidency of "the biggest bank in the U. S." than most people encounter when catching a train...
Born in Aurora. Ill., in 1864, Vanderlip worked on his father's farm, earned his first $12 by caring for 36 calves one summer, was given one to sell. "I marvel today the way I spent that money . . . a six years' subscription to the New York Weekly Tribune with a premium of Webster's unabridged dictionary." Upon his father's death, he went to work in a machine shop, spent long hours reading, studied German, taught his shopmates algebra. In addition, he took a correspondence course in shorthand. At 21 he became city editor...
Readers who had pictured Wall Street as the centre of deep antagonisms and dark conspiracies may be astonished to find it described by Vanderlip as almost pastoral, the abode of gay spirits whose deepest animosities could be dissipated by a hearty slap on the back and a few frank words. A cloud gathered at the panic of 1907, soon disappeared. "Oh, but we had a stern captain in 1907; it was during those days of strain that I discovered for myself what an admirable intelligence gleamed through the fierce eyes of J. Pierpont Morgan.'' More trouble threatened during...