Word: wiggin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitsubishi Bank, managing director Ikeda of Mitsui Bank; President Kodama of Yokohama Specie Bank; Baron Go, president of Tokyo Electric Light Co. and former Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki. Only a Japanese knows the full magnitude of these names, equivalent in Japan to such names in the U. S. as Wiggin, Insull, Coolidge...
...left foot. In front of the figure was a black marble reflecting pool, behind it cedar trees and potted plants. Called Reverie, it attracted great attention not only because it was pleasant to the eye but also because its creator, a grandmother, is the wife of Albert Henry Wiggin whose bank (Chase) vies with National City for title of "world's biggest...
Only two years ago did Mrs. Jessie Duncan Hayden Wiggin feel that she had time to spare to sculpt. Telling few of her friends, she rented a studio in MacDougal Alley behind the Whitney Museum and began to study under Victor Salvatore. She worked hard. Reverie is her first work in marble. Mrs. Wiggin designed it for her garden in Greenwich, Conn...
...really feel that sculpture is my profession," said pleasant Grandmother Wiggin. "It has given me quite a thrill to have really created something."- Hearst's San Francisco Examiner ("Monarch of the Dailies") last week took notice of that city's cultural life by reporting the completion of a fresco by youthful Artist Victor Arnautoff, onetime pupil of Diego Rivera. On the wall of his studio near the edge of the Telegraph Hill art colony Artist Arnautoff, a sociable fellow, had painted the likenesses of 23 of his friends grouped about the seated figure of a nude female model...
...When the Wiggin Committee of the Rank for International Settlements on August 19 told the world that tariffs should be lowered, it was simply repeating advice which had been given many lines during recent years. On April 21, 1931, a similar recommendation was made by General W. W. Atterbury, the learner Republican National Committee man from the protections stronghold of Pennsylvania. But the advice has been little heeded, in part because the man in the street does not clearly understand how and why rising tariffs have been undermining his prosperity...