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Ever since Frank A. Vanderlip, former President of the National City Bank, Manhattan, made his startling speech anent official corruption in Washington, he has been resigning his many directorships one by one. His first retirement from the board of a prominent corporation followed a letter sent to him by J. Horace Harding, requesting his resignation from the Continental Can Co. Mr. Vanderlip went to the board meeting of the Company declaring that he would not resign, yet he did so when he discovered that his fellow-directors unanimously seconded Mr. Harding's request...
There is a story about Frank A. Vanderlip which is so recurrent as to be almost part of the American saga. Mr. Vanderlip himself has not forgotten it. He repeated it to a recent interviewer...
This type of "crusading newspaperman" has disappeared, says Mr. Vanderlip. It is to make up for the extinct species that he has founded his Citizens' Federal Research Bureau...
...handouts; he is a very high-grade messenger. They no longer sit at the table with the heads of government in conference as they used to, when I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." All this was vouchsafed to Philip Schuyler, of Editor and Publisher, who said of Mr. Vanderlip: "The onetime President of the National City Bank of New York has turned crusader and his zeal is boundless. His eyes snap and his jaw is set. He is angry and his talk is earnest, although not hyster- ical" It was also revealed that Mr. Vanderlip was on intimate terms...
Meantime Mr. Vanderlip's attorneys prepared and filed his answer to a $600,000 suit for libel and slander which the owners of the Marion Star had instituted against him on the allegation that he had said they paid much more for the paper than it was worth. The answer declared that Mr. Vanderlip's remarks repeating the rumor were justified by public interest, that they did no damage to the plaintiffs, that they had failed to contradict the rumor although it was current, and that the plaintiffs themselves added to the circulation of his remarks by publishing...