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...financial education that might forbid the eminence which he desired. Instead of rejoining his firm, he joined the Chase Securities Corporation, then spent a year in the credit department of the bank. So doing, he attracted the favorable attention of the president of the Chase Bank, Albert Henry Wiggin...
...Fisher Co., to be president & general manager of the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. recently amalgamated (TiME, Dec. 5). His board of directors includes exceptionally potent businessmen & financiers, such as Morgan B. Brainard, Charles Hayden, Philip Lehman, Henry Morgenthau, Morgan Joseph O'Brien, James Howell Post and Albert Henry Wiggin...
...John Pierpont Morgan; Albert H. Wiggin, President, Chase National Bank, Manhattan; Melvin A. Traylor, President, First National Bank, Chicago; John J. Mitchell, President, Illinois Merchants Trust Co., Chicago; Thomas N. Perkins, Member, Reparations Commission; Gates W. McGarrah, Chairman, Mechanics and Metals National Bank, Manhattan...
...Wiggin is a financial giant; his counsel is eagerly sought. He is director and officer in about 30 financial, railroad and industrial organizations, member of a score of clubs, trustee of many philanthropic activities. All through he has kept his reputation of being "tremendously loyal. . . . generous to a fault ... of unlimited courage," of being a hard worker and player, "big, jovial, wholesome." Called by his first name more than any other Wall Street potentate, he is occasionally spoken of as "the man of a million friends...
...friends is Gates W. McGarrah, Chairman of the Board of the Mechanics & Metals, who will become Chairman of the Executive Committee of the new bank. (Mr. Wiggin will be Chairman of the combined Board.) He too started banking early, at 18; came to Manhattan and has remained active in banking there more than 40 years. In 1902 he was made President of the old Leather Manufacturers' Bank and, when the Mechanics & Metals absorbed it, became President of the combination in 1904; Chairman of the Board in 1922. He is a director of the German Reichsbank, being on its General Board...