Business & Finance: Three Transfusions

Two U.S. Government financial institutions last week got transfusions of fresh blood. To the $10,000-a-year chairmanship of the Export-Import Bank, fellow Missourian Harry Truman named boyish, earnest William McChesney Martin Jr., 39, onetime Wonder Child of Wall Street. The $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1938 to 1941, Martin was drafted into the Army as a private. By war's end he was a full colonel.

To become a member of the Bank's board, the President named plain, ambitious Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, onetime national commander of the American Legion. Since his defeat in a three-cornered race for U.S. Senator...

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