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First, some of them were devoted to Charlie Mitchell and all of them had reason to be grateful to him. He had taken charge of the bank after two presidents had been scrapped in quick succession: Frank A. Vanderlip who backed Russia's Kerensky and James Alexander Stillman, who had inherited a large share of the bank's stock but who was overwhelmed by personal scandal soon after assuming the presidency. Charlie Mitchell almost immediately restored the bank's morale and soon made it the best in Wall Street. A man's man, strong and courageous...
...Price System Economist Stuart Chase, Veblen's friend has been writing similarly since. But last summer a tall, middle-aged man named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
...subject. Meanwhile the drawing room chatter kept up; Technocracy became a vogue; the slower-moving magazines rushed m. Harpers for January carries an article as will the March Cosmopolitan (with foreword by the now somewhat embarrassed President Nicholas Murray Butler). The Saturday Evening Post expects one by Banker Vanderlip when he has discovered and verified what facts the Technocrats possess. Even precious Vanity Fair (December) touched gingerly on Technocracy & Scott...
...debut. A product of Manhattan's lower East Side was going to show how he could sing. But this one's name happened to be Alfred Emanuel Smith. He was making a debut to boost the New York Infirmary for Women & Children for which Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip's comely, energetic wife collects funds...
...audience was concerned his vocal shortcomings were more than atoned for by his obvious sincerity of purpose. Be fore he had finished he had everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved his own tempo...