Missed the trip slip, did the passcode give any insight to look into like Matlock did?
Thanks anon for your archival prowess
A quick scan of Pilgrims Members from WWI
https:// isgp-studies.com/pilgrims-society-membership-list
Bacon, Robert Low 1884-1938
>During WWI he worked for John J. Pershing, General of the Armies. Additionally, in December 1914 the National Security League was founded to support universal military training, military preparedness, patriotism, and the extermination of values which were "un-American." Choate served as initial honorary president, while the first acting president was Robert Bacon, a partner in J.P. Morgan.
Biddle, Gen. John d. 1936
>During WWI he served in France and then as Chief of Staff 1917-1918. Commanded the American troops in England 1918-1919. Served as US escort for the Prince of Wales and regularly attended dinners with the Prince of Wales in 1918-1919. Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath
Choate, Joseph H. 1832-1917
>Anne Pimlott Baker, The Pilgrims of the United States - A centennial history', p. 11: "Many American Pilgrims tried to use their influence to bring the United States into the war [WWI] on the side of the Allies, none more so than Joseph Choate, who used the occasion of the Pilgrims dinner on September 30, 1915, in honor of Lord Reading and members of the Anglo-French Credit Commission, who were in New York to negotiate a war loan of 500 million dollars, to plead the cause of the Allies. The Pilgrims of Great Britain celebrated the entry of the United States into the war on April 1917 with a banquet at the Savoy."
Davison, Henry Pomeroy 1867-1922
>Involved with the Red Cross during WWI and received at least one 2 million dollar donation from co-Pilgrim George F. Baker. Jr., Henry Sturgis Morgan, and Thomas Stillwell Lamont were all chosen as partners of J.P. Morgan together in 1929.
Douglas, Lewis Williams (Vice-president) 1894-1974
>Fought in WWI in the artillery from 1917 to 1919. Instructor of history at Amherst College in 1920. Engaged in mining and general business. Member of the Arizona State house of representatives 1923-1925. Elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth Congress.
Polk, Frank Lyon 1871-1943
>Yale Scroll & Key 1894. Partner Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardner & Read Law firm. Secretary of State. Counsellor of the Department of State. Negotiator during and surrounding WWI with high level British and American officials (co-Pilgrims). Head of the American delegation at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference. Director Council on Foreign Relations 1921-1943. Vice-president Council on Foreign Relations 1940-1943.
Reid, Hugh d. 1958
>Born in Scotland. Served in the US Army during WWI and became a US citizen. Partner in the shipping brokerage firm of Simpson, Spence & Young since 1920. President of the Texas Transport and Terminal Company, Inc., steamship agents. Co-founder and first president of the Association of Shipbrokers and Agents in 1934.
Runciman, Lord Walter 1870-1949
>Shareholder in the Vickers arms company during WWI (Sep. 17, 1939, Chicago Daily Tribune, '4 Steel Firms Supply Death for Battle fields' (Vickers-Armstrong, Krupp, Schneider & Ci., Skoda Works, Ltd. - Metalgesellschaft, the Rio Tinto ally, also important German arms producer).
Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock (Chairman) 1867-1936
>Brigadier General in the United States Army during WWI (with domestic duties). Trustee New York University. Ambassador to Turkey 1932-1933. Wrote the books Have We A Far Eastern Policy?(1920) & Prime Ministers and Presidents (1922). Decorated by Italy, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Holland, and Czechoslovakia. Chairman of the US Pilgrims from 1921 to 1923.
West, Richard Houghton d. 1977
>In the textiles business since 1912. Served in the Army in WWI. Helped rebuild the European war-torn industries in the aftermath of WWI and worked as a European purchasing agent for American and Canadian corporations.
a few more
Bryce, Viscount James (president) 1838-1922
>Following the outbreak of the First World War, Lord Bryce was appointed by Herbert Asquith to report on alleged German atrocities in Belgium. The report was published in 1915, and was damning of German behavior; Lord Bryce's reputation in America was important in influencing American opinion toward Germany before their entry into the war. Bryce was acquainted with the Vanderbilts, and had detailed documents about the 1915 Armenian extermination by the Turks. (Some have argued in the past century that these local tension were exploited by certain British and French elements)
Astor, Vincent 1891-1959
>William Vincent Astor. Heir to the fortune of John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the Titanic. Franklin D. Roosevelt supporter in 1932 and New Deal supporter after WWII. Director of Chase National Bank, Western Union Telegraph Company, Great Northern Railway Company, the United States Lines, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital and other institutions and corporations, trustee of the New York Public Library and the New York Zoological Society, governor of New York Hospital, staff officer in the Navy during both World Wars, seemed to have a bit of competition from the English branch of the family.
Cushing, Harry Cooke 1895-1960
>Partner, Herrick, Berg & Co., 1920-32; exec. Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., 1932-37; v.p. E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1937-47; director American-Moroccan Corporation, Tower Petroleum Corporation; president and director Security Management Corporation; financial adviser Northfield Mines, Inc., Westfield Mines, Inc. Served as pvt. Troop B, Squadron A. New York Cav. on Mexican Border, 1916; served during World War I as capt. of Field Arty., U.S. Army, and asst. to chief of staff, 2d Army Corps, A.E.F.
Dawes, Charles G. 1865-1951
>Comptroller of the Currency 1897-1901. Organized the Central Trust Company of Illinois at Chicago in 1902. Organized Central Trust Co. of Ill., Chicago, 1902, of which he was pres., 1902-21, chmn. bd., 1921-25, hon. chmn. bd., 1930-31. Chairman of the General Purchasing Board of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War I (decided who got the contracts).
Dodge, Cleveland Earl 1888-1982
>Great-great-grandson of Phelps Dodge Corporation founder William Earl Dodge…In his first five years with Phelps-Dodge, Dodge worked at the company's mining properties in Arizona. He served as a vice president of Phelps-Dodge for 43 years and as a director of the company for 41 years, finally retiring in the late 1960s… In 1916, Dodge served six months as a private with a cavalry squadron of the New York Militia on the Mexican border. He later served as an officer in France during World War I with an artillery regiment and was wounded. Married Pauline Morgan, a daughter of Pilgrims Society member William Fellows Morgan, in 1919.
Esher, Viscount Reginald 1852-1930
>In 1901, Lord Esher became deputy governor (and later governor) of Windsor Castle, and remained close to the royal family until his death. During this period, he helped edit Queen Victoria's papers, publishing a work called Correspondence of Queen Victoria (1907). Behind the scenes, he influenced many of the pre-World War I reforms carried out by the Liberal governments of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Herbert Henry Asquith, and was a supporter of the British–French Entente Cordiale.
Kitchener, Lord Horatio H. 1850-1916
>At the outset of World War I (1914), Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith quickly had Lord Kitchener appointed Secretary of State for War. Against cabinet opinion, Kitchener correctly predicted a long war that would last at least three years, require huge new armies to defeat Germany, and suffer huge casualties before the end would come.
Mellon, Andrew W. (Exec. committee ) 1855-1937
>During the World War I years he participated in many patriotic civilian activities such as the American Red Cross, the National War Council of the YMCA, the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania State Council of National Defense, and the National Research Council of Washington. He was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1921-1932, member Federal Reserve System 1921-1932, United States ambassador to Great Britain 1932-1933,
Schiff, Mortimer Leo 1877-1931
>His death left only nine partners in his firm, an unusually small roster. They are: Felix Moritz Warburg, Otto Hermann Kahn, Jerome J. Hanauer, George W. Bovenizer, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Sir William Wiseman
>Sir William Wiseman, tenth baronet of Ulster, partner in Manhattan's Kuhn, Loeb & Co., has never made much of a public splash. He graduated from Cambridge, was gassed at Ypres, studied espionage at Scotland Yard, at 30 was the second most powerful Briton in the U.S., unofficial head of His Majesty's World War I secret service in the U.S. and Woodrow Wilson's "confidential Englishman."