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Frank A. Vanderlip

Frank Arthur Vanderlip Sr. was an American banker and journalist. He was president of the National City Bank of New York from 1909 to 1919, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1897 to 1901. Vanderlip is known for his part in founding the Federal Reserve System and for founding the first Montessori school in the United States, the Scarborough School and the group of communities in Palos Verdes, California.

November 13, 1864 - June 30, 1937
The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time. — © Frank A. Vanderlip
The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.
I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
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