Word: wiggins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman of Chase National Bank, passed silently through Paris last week on his way to Basle, refusing all interviews. The Chase is not only "biggest bank in the world," but it probably has the largest share of all U. S. investments in Germany, the greatest desire to restore German prosperity. French editors therefore regarded Banker Wiggin's coming (as U. S. member of the Bank for International Settlements' committee to study Germany's credit needs) somewhat sourly. Wrote the Journal des Debats: "This time the attempt which is being made is to hand...
...Wiggin. Another indirect promise of help for Britain came from the U. S. last week. Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman of Chase National Bank (world's biggest) sailed for Europe to take his place as U. S. representative on the Bank for International Settlements' committee to study Germany's credit needs and the possibility of turning short term credits into long terms. Great Britain's troubles are interwoven with Germany's. Chairman Wiggin will have to ponder them as well. Englishmen remembered last week that as long ago as January Chairman Wiggin urged a general...
Albert Henry Wiggin, Chase ("Biggest") Bank: "It is not true that high wages make prosperity. Instead, prosperity makes high wages. When wages are kept higher than the market situation justifies, employment and the buying power of labor fall...
...typified by the man chosen to head it. He was Earle Bailie, who abandoned a promising law career in 1919 to enter finance and proved his astuteness so quickly in 1923 he was made a Seligman partner. The Tri-Continental directorship includes such important "outsiders" as Albert Henry Wiggin and Clarence Edward Groesbeck, president of Electric Bond & Share, but its management is distinctly from within. Its research staff is large and skilled, and Mr. Bailie places great faith in the "field trips" which his men take to survey business throughout the U. S. at first hand. TriContinental takes great pride...
...Lake Forest, 111. Rose Wiggin, 4, and Sally Wiggin, 6, after reading a great number of fairy stories, stripped, coated themselves with their mother's vanishing cream, ran downstairs into a formal, adult dinner-party under the impression that they were invisible...