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Born in Liverpool, the Vesteys rank with Swift, Armour and Wilson in the world's meat trade. When British retailers would not buy frozen meat 25 years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world...
...desperate, the Stewart-Warner management yielded. Last June six new directors were elected, including such potent Chicago names as Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer, American Telephone & Telegraph director, Lawyer Ralph Shaw, shrewd, hard-bitten member of Winston, Strawn & Shaw, Robert J. Dunham, close associate of the late Jonathan Ogden Armour. But because no one relished the idea of having Inventor Zerk tearing his thick black mane at directors' meetings, a temporary coalition was formed to defeat the Zerk slate with one exception. To soothe Mr. Zerk's temper, they made one of his candidates, Robert James Graham of Belleville...
There are seven Swifts in Swift & Co., four Armours in Armour & Co., two Wilsons in Wilson & Co. Last week Thomas Edward Wilson, 65, and Edward Foss Wilson, 29, both made news when Father Thomas was moved from president to board chairman and Son Edward from vice president to president. Wilson & Co.'s 9,000-odd stockholders had no good ground lo fear nepotism. For Father Thomas the board chairmanship was created, and from that eminence he announced he would continue to run the company. No matter how much Father Thomas might wish to see his red-haired...
...anger, to paint them as no more 'wicked' than they or their contemporaries actually were, though we are aware now of living in another moral climate and in the midst of a new generation. . . ." When the Civil War began "Jay Gould. Jim Fisk, J. P. Morgan, Philip Armour, Andrew Carnegie, James Hill and John Rockefeller were all in their early 20's; Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford were over 30; while Jay Cooke was not yet 40." Old enough to go to war, they were also too canny. They wanted to be rich before they died. They...
...What septuagenarian became finance chairman of Armour...