- Allen Wardwell
Allen Wardwell (1873–1953), was a banking law expert [ [http://www.vault.com/dlcenter/excerpt/Top100_Excerpt_2005.pdf Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms • 7th Edition] ] , vice president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1929, and a name partner of the law firm today known as
Davis Polk & Wardwell [ [http://www.smokershistory.com/theorder.htm Allen Wardwell, Scroll & Key 1895] ] .Allen Wardwell graduated from
Yale University in 1895 and was a member ofScroll and Key Society. He served as a Major in theAmerican Red Cross in Russia. He was a member of the Active Campaign Committee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer when it received an unconditional gift of $100,000 fromJohn D. Rockefeller Jr. for its congress atLake Mohonk in 1926. Wardwell accompaniedAverell Harriman in his mission to Moscow in 1941, then headedRussian War Relief Inc. in 1942.References
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* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20615F63D58167B93CAA8178AD85F468485F9 RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF SHIFT; Allen Wardwell Replaces Miss H.L. Moore as Secretary]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E1D81E3CF930A35750C0A96F958260 Paid Notice: Deaths WARDWELL, ALLEN]
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