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...another group of dissenting stockholders. Finally a third group, a Stockholders' Advisory Committee headed by M. W. Borders, Kansas City lawyer, and William Morgan Butler of Boston, got into action. More noisy than the others they carried their fight to the Press, asked embarrassing questions: Had Albert Henry Wiggin, Samuel McRoberts and Arthur Reynolds each been paid $100,000 a year as voting trustees for Armour's stock? Had the management manipulated the price of Armour stock? Had not the management tried to deceive stockholders about the reason for the reorganization? Ought stockholders not to have been told...
...Trust Co. .............10,000 Seward Prosser, of Bankers Trust Co. ..............10,000 Alfred P. Sloan Jr., of General Motors...............1,500 Matthew S. Sloan, of N. Y. Edison.........1,000 Walter C. Teagle, of Standard Oil of N. J. ...........2,000 O. P. Van Sweringen .............5,000 Albert H. Wiggin............. 8,500 Joseph Wilshire, president Standard Brands, Inc .........50,000 Daniel G. Wing, Boston banker ............2,000 Clarence M. Woolley. of American Radiator...
George Willets Davison, chairman of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., last week was named to fill the place of Albert Henry Wiggin. retired chairman of Chase National Bank, on the board of Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Thomas John Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp., was named to fill the place of William Hartman Woodin...
...Dillon, Read; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone, etc., etc.). And it has one of the largest bank directorates in the country: 71 members. The sins of the Chase Bank were not necessarily on Mr. Aldrich's head, however. He could blame them if he chose on Albert H. Wiggin, vigorous chairman who resigned last January...
...reason for Mr. Aldrich's move was self-evident: the promised Senate investigation of the Chase Bank, no matter what it discloses, will now fall flat, for Mr. Aldrich has by his statement repudiated the policies of his predecessor, Albert Henry Wiggin. He can, unlike Charles Edwin Mitchell, declare himself in agreement with the critics of his bank. Moreover banking reform measures are now bound to be enacted, and little would be gained but public censure by opposing them. By speaking out Mr. Aldrich bettered his position, aligned himself with the prevailing banking spirit of the times...