Talk:Henry Baldwin Hyde

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 04:01, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Citation needed
The article is mainly about James Hazen Hyde. Perhaps it should be renamed. This aside, I am posting citation needed because Patrica Beard's account does not support the notion that Jamea Hazen Hyde made 'one fatal miscalculation.' with his astonishing ball. In her account, James's loss of control of the Equitable Assurance Society was a cumulative process that began even before Henry's death, with Henry apparently not especially attentive in integrating his son into Equitable culture, nor with James being especially interested in being integrated, what with his active involvement in the social milieu of the New York Four Hundred. In any event, Henry died before much integration, well-planned or not, could take place. James Hazen Hyde was out of touch with the ambitions and power-bases of the senior Equitable management, men twice his age of whom he would be nominally in charge. Indeed, according to Beard, J. W. Alexander had already challenged James Hazen Hyde with the mutualization scheme that was designed to oust Hyde from management, so battle lines had been drawn before the ball had taken place, and next Equitable board meeting was going to be a war irrespective of the ball. If anything, the ball was a flash point for volatiles already in place. — Gosgood 23:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Without disputing whether the statement is supported by the reference, I've removed the fact tag. There is a reference already. If it's wrong, then the statement should be fixed. Argyriou (talk) 07:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * And I've gone and created James Hazen Hyde using the stuff about him in this article. I'll go improve the article after I finish reading the book. Argyriou (talk) 07:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

A step in the right direction in historical research might be to use the correct company name.

http://google.com/search?q=Equitable-Life-Assurance-Society-of-New-York
 * —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.246.204.29 (talk) 15:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)