The covert group , founded in 1917 , included the real estate heir Vincent Astor , a close friend of Roosevelt ; the book publisher Nelson Doubleday ; Winthrop W. Aldrich , the president of the Chase National Bank ; Kermit Roosevelt , a son of Theodore Roosevelt ; David K. E. Bruce , a son-in-law of Andrew W. Mellon and a future ambassador to France , West Germany and Britain ; the philanthropist William Rhinelander Stewart ; and Marshall Field III , a newspaper publisher and heir to the Chicago department store fortune .
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase National Bank
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Marshall Field III
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Vincent Astor
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Nelson Doubleday
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Winthrop W. Aldrich
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Chase National Bank
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Kermit Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
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David K. E. Bruce
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Andrew W. Mellon
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France
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West Germany
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Britain
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Marshall Field III
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Chicago