Word: wiggin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker of the Year was certainly Winthrop Williams Aldrich who last week seemed about to succeed Albert Henry Wiggin as head of great Chase National (see p. 27) but his big achievements lay ahead of him. Scanning the realm of business the well-informed citizen would probably conclude that the biggest and boldest strides against the economic tide were those of Errett Lobban Cord who turned from highways to skyways in his restless effort to expand. The year proved that there was no such thing as a Depression-proof industry. Yet John Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific food stores...
Albert Henry Wiggin went to Chase National Bank as a vice president & director nearly 29 years ago. Tall, heavy, slightly popeyed, he entered banking without benefit of college at 17. At 23 he was an assistant bank examiner in Boston, a bank vice president at 29. At the turn of the century he marched down to Manhattan as an officer in a small bank that he later absorbed. When he was picked for president in 1911 Chase National Bank boasted total assets of $106.000,000. At the peak of its prosperity two years ago the total...
Charles Beal Wig gin, cousin of Chairman Albert Henry Wiggin of Chase National Bank, was made chairman of Distributors Group, Inc., powered by President Hugh Long, sponsors of North American Trust Shares, largest fixed trust...
Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman...
...Washington, D. C. go the lobbyists of old and powerful industries wanting Government protection. And to Washington go the enthusiastic sponsors of new, hopeful industries wanting Government protection and encouragement. In Washington last week was such a sponsor. He was Harry Wiggin Bennett, 66, president of the two-month-old American Tung Growers Association (32 members) whose groves of tung trees represent 90%, of the 25,000 acres so far planted...