Word: wiggin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred Hugenberg proved more tractable toward the Wiggin commission now in Berlin. German delegates presented an ingenious scheme whereby U. S. banks with stillstand credit in Germany will be allowed to draw 3,000 marks monthly ($714) from this credit, in the form of travelers' checks which in turn they can sell to U. S. tourists at cut rates, thus encouraging tourist traffic, helping German industry...
...increase of 15% over the usual number of neophytes. This was attributed to the "strenuous times" in which younger men were pushed ahead to ease the burden of oldsters. Leading the list of men with diversified interests was, as usual, Banker Charles Hayden with 82 directorships. Albert Henry Wiggin and Matthew Chauncey Brush tied with 47. Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last...
...Wall Streeter about Banker Wiggin and the pat answer will be, "He's the man with a million friends." Banker Wiggin probably is as personally popular as any man in U. S. finance. Albert Wiggin is "Al" to almost as many people as Alfred Smith. His informality, his good nature, his loyalty, his passionate concentration on golf and poker make him friends and keep them. Although his interest in etchings has long been known, few persons realized until last week what an important print collector Mr. Wiggin is. On view were 271 different works illustrating practically the entire career...
Jean-Louis Forain is by no means the only artist Mr. Wiggin collects. He boasts the most-complete-in-the-world collections of three famed Scotch etchers: James McBey, Muirhead Bone, Sir David Young Cameron. Among his hundreds of miscellaneous prints is the famed "Hundred Guilder Print" of Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick...
...specially panelled room with false walls designed by his wife, an able amateur sculptress (TIME, Feb. 29). On ordinary occasions all that is visible are a few choice prints carefully framed. For favored friends each panel will swing back to show its reverse completely covered with Mr. Wiggin's favorites in narrow moldings, to expose shelves stacked high with hundreds of others...