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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Webster Mills, 79, board secretary & treasurer of Marietta (Ohio) College, uncle of Charles Gates Dawes; in Cincinnati...
...marched into the foremost rank of private banks. Yet during the last few years sorry things have happened to Kidder, Peabody & Co. In August 1929, William Endicott, who had entered the firm after emerging from Harvard in 1887, resigned. On Jan. 2. 1930, the senior partner, Frank G. Webster, died suddenly at the age of 89. Five days later the mainspring of the firm, Robert Winsor. died. Within a year Wall Street was whispering black news about Kidder, Peabody...
Oldest of the three new partners is Chandler Hovey. In 1900 he went to work for Kidder, Peabody & Co., and in 1910 left to form his own firm. He is closely tied to the firm's tradition, for his sister married Edwin Sibley Webster, son of the late Frank G. Webster and now president of Stone & Webster, Inc. His father was the late William Alfred Hovey, editor of the Boston Transcript. His grandfather was Charles Hovey, fiery Boston abolitionist. Chandler Hovey winters at Chestnut Hill, Boston, points with pride to some large China vases bearing paintings of Napoleon by Artist...
Continued injuries in the three eights which now make up the University squad still frustrate any attempt to get the Harvard oarsmen into pre-vacation condition. Although R. H. Hallowell '33 and A. N. Webster '31, who have been on the sick list until now, have returned to the seatings chosen for them at the beginning of practice, the absence of C. J. Cassedy '33, one of the three strokes, continues to upset the organization of the squad...
Bacon's Crew--Stroke, Bacon; 7, Robert Saltonstall '33; 6, Webster; 5, Mal- comb Bancroft '33; 4, M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31; 3, J. M. Erickson '32; 2, Captain J. W. Hallowell '31; Bow, A. L. Nickerson, Jr. '38; Cox, F. S. Holmes...