From a 1934 article in Time Magazine:
“…With the Amundsen (rail car) coupled on to the end of Southern Pacific’s Lark, Mr. Aldrich & party went from San Francisco to Los Angeles, there to inspect, among other things, a whopping if unwanted Chase investment. Fox Film Corp. Funnyman Will Rogers reported:
“One of New York’s very leading bankers was visiting our studio (and incidentally his studio). . . . This fellow had an economist with him. Pretty near everybody’s got one. Either that or a police dog. The more wealthy have got both.”
Interesting detail: Rogers was speaking of our very own Benjamin Anderson!
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Was Winthrop Aldrich any relation to Nelson W. Aldrich, the notorious senator who rode the clandestine train with J.P. Morgan and company to Jekyll Island to lay plans for the creation of the Federal Reserve?
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