Word: wiggins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position is Chairman of the Governing Board, the board to consist of principal senior officers, much as the "Managing Directors" or "Council of Directors"' used by many foreign banks. Into this position will go Albert Henry Wiggin, genial, well-known Chairman of Chase. Banker Wiggin is really self-made, having no college education, no "affiliations." A strenuous hiker, he often made the famed passage of "from Midtown to Wall Street," with Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust and the late Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. Almost as prime as Chase is among banks is his collection...
Adroitly arranged are the other senior executive positions, none of which represents a demotion. Under Mr. Wiggin will be: bespectacled Chairman of the Executive Committee John McHugh, who was "discovered" in Sioux City by Gates W. McGarrah ; Chairman of the Board Charles Simonton McCain, who began banking by beginning banks in Arkansas; youthful Vice Chairman of the Board Robert Livingston Clarkson, scion of a banking family; President Winthrop Williams Aldrich, young Rockefeller-sponsored Equitable president. Behind these will be a directorate whose membership is a roster of potency in railroads, copper, chemistry, shipping, insurance, steel, communications...
...first only gossip, the deal seemed a certainty when Winthrop Williams Aldrich, president of Equitable Trust Co., was seen in the office of Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of Chase National Bank, and when no denials were issued. A combination of these two banks would create an institution with resources of $2,728,800,000 exclusive of securities affiliates, making the new bank the biggest in the world. On Dec. 31 the ranking of large banks...
...Mergers contributing to this have been with Metropolitan Bank in 1921, Mechanics & Metals National in 1926, Mutual Bank in 1927, National Park Bank and Garfield National in 1929. Also, last year Chase acquired American Express Co. Chairman of Chase since 1918 has been Albert Henry Wiggin. In 1914 Mr. Wiggin was chairman of the Clearing House Committee and the Gold Fund Committee. In the winter of 1917 he was Fuel Administrator of New York State. Potent in Manhattan banking, it is generally expected that Mr. Wiggin will head the combined institution...