Samuel Reading Bertron (S&B 1885)
Financier. Diplomat. Attorney. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon. The Pilgrims. Yale Club. Piping Rock, Downtown Association. University Club. Sons of the Revolution. Metropolitan of Washington.[1][5]
Honary Secretary of the Franco-American Society.[5]
President of International Equities Corporation and a director of the National Surety Corporation and the Atlantic Safe Deposit.[5]
He appeared before the Federal Electric Railways Commission.
Director International Equities Corporation, director New York Indemnity Company, American Scantic Line, NationalSurety Corporation, Atlantic Safe Deposit Company, and United Gas & Electric Engineering Corporation; chairman American-Russian Chamber of Commerce and of the Board of the American-European Utilities Corporation 1925.[4]
Director Society for the Promotion of Education among Russians and Belgian American Educational Foundation.[4]
Honorary secretary Franco-American Society.[4]
In 1935, Betron advocated recognition of Soviet Russia as a spur of trade improvement.[5] (Research Antony C. Sutton - The Best Enemy Money Can Buy).
Chairman of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce and President of the New York Sourthern Society.[5]
1930 to 1932 - Chairman, local [Oyster Bay] relief committee to aid the unemployed.
1930, he had urged leniency on international debts, and in the following year advocated a five-year debt moratorim on interallied debt as a means of alleviating world depression.[5]
1925, Chairman of the board of the American-European Utilities Corporation to develop electric power systems in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania.[5]
1923, headed a group of New York bankers who received a grant from the Czechoslovak Republic to exploit 1,000,000 acres of rich timber lands in the Carpathian Mountains [Poland]. The transaction was reported to have involved $1,000,000.[5]
1919 - Made commander of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium and the following year was honored by the French Government.[5]
1919 - Member advisory committee School of Business, Columbia University.[4]
WW1 - 1918 - Served as Vice President War Relief Clearing House for France and the Allies, and treasuer of executive Committee Italian War Relief Commission of America.[5]
WW1 - 1918 - Roumanian Relief Committee of America.[5]
WW1 - 1917 to 1921 - Advisor, Excess Profits Tax Board by President Woodrow Wilson.[5] Member of the Excess Profits Tax Commission, Washington, and the Captial Issues Commissions, New York.[5]
WW1 - 1917 - American Red Cross Mission to Russia (Root commission led by Elihu Root).[5]
WW1 - Office of the Crown of Romania and established the French War Relief Bureau, which was afterward taken over by the American Red Cross.[5]
WW1 - Member of the Hoover Relief Commission (aka Belgium Relief Commission).
Assisted in drafting the Federal Reserve Act 1914.[4]
1912 - Helped peace negotiations between Italy and Turkey.[5]
1912 to 1938 - President of Bertron, Griscom & Company, International Financier, Paris.
1892 - Admitted to the Bar for New York.
1889 - Equitable Mortgage Company in Boston.
1886 - Admitted to the Bar Mississippi.
1885 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.
Died 30 Jun 1938, from cerebral hemorrhage. Age 73
Note: Parents - Samuel Reading Bertron Sr. and Ottilie Mueler.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[6] - FYI - Wiki - Samuel Reading Bertron (S&B 1885)
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