Mostly by proxy, in many cases by person, last week stockholders of national banks attended their annual meetings. Most significant meeting of all was that of the biggest bank, Chase National. Proudly, stockholders heard that their institute's resources now total $2,697,000,000, the largest sum ever attained by a bank and $753,000,000 ahead of the nearest U. S. competitor, National City Bank. Befitting the meeting of the biggest bank, the No. 1 U. S. Banker, Albert Henry Wiggin, addressed stockholders on problems other than those pertinent to Chase alone.
Salient Wigginisms included:
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