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...investigating Senators last week continued writing the fifth chapter of their book of revelations-the chapter of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, its Mr. Wiggin and its Mr. Aldrich. Not so much excitement did the sequel make for the U. S. Press but far more excitement for the characters involved. The characters began to speak their minds in no uncertain terms...
...Wiggin. While Inquisitor Pecora was digging into Cuban matters, he paused and, without comment, put into the record a curt letter written the day before...
Cuba. Most of the investigation's fifth chapter of revelations was about Mr. Wiggin rather than his bank, but the bank -and Mr. Aldrich-came into it strongly on the subject of loans to Cuba. In a secret session of the committee Mr. Aldrich, who was not a Chase official when the loans were made, strongly urged that the subject be pigeonholed in view of the seething Cuban situation. It might lead to more bloodshed. His request leaked out and a Washington newspaper reported that ''Wall Street influences" were trying to keep the Senators from their work...
...Wiggin testified that he now holds 67,000 shares of the bank's stock, his family 50,000 shares additional-a total once worth...
...Named for Mr. Wiggin's daughter Marjorie and her husband Sherburne Prescott. Other Wiggin family holding companies: Murlyn (named for Mr. Wiggin's other daughter, Muriel, and her husband Lynde Selden), Medfield (for the Massachusetts town where Mr. Wiggin was born), Greenwich (for his summer home at Greenwich, Conn.), Selcott (for the last names of his two sons...