Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic

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Thus it was an intellectual husband of a Doctor of Philosophy as well as a keen and forceful financier who presided over the most nerve-wracking crisis in U. S. business history.

*His last previous public utterance: "I have every reason to be grateful on my ninetieth birthday. Everybody has been so kind and good to me all year."

* Divided thus:

First National $464,000,000 Chase National 1,539,000,000

National City Bank (including Corn Exchange and City Bank Farmers Trust) 2,343,000,000

Guaranty Trust Company 1,859,000,000

Bankers Trust Company 686,000,000

Equitable Trust Co. 932,000,000

J. P. Morgan & Co. and other private bankers 2,000,000,000

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