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...paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
Engaged. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, grandson of John Davison Rockefeller and of the late U. S. Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 22, Manhattan socialite, Vassar graduate...
...ocean trip, so is Chase National Bank, world's largest, of which Mr. Aldrich became president when it merged with Equitable Trust, whose counsel he had been for many years and of which he had become president in 1929. Son of Rhode Island's Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, he did his first sailing off Warwick, R.I. in a mainsail-rigged dory, his first cruising on his father's steam yacht. He graduated from Harvard in 1907, was admitted to the bar in New York five years later. As representative of the Rockefellers (his sister Abby married John...
...Rockefeller proxy committee, Winthrop Williams Aldrich announced that he and his colleagues held proxies for 51% of the stock of Standard Oil of Indiana, or enough to enable Mr. Rockefeller Jr. to win the fight and oust Col. Stewart. Mr Aldrich is a son of the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (oldtime friend and intimate of Mr. Rockefeller Sr.) . . . the younger Aldrich now attacks for his impregnable brother...
...Named after his maternal grandfather. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, late U. S. Senator from Rhode Island...