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Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...
...Bald, grey-fringed, vigorous Dr. Cattell was a pacifist whose opponents always knew they had been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to Europe. Butler fired him. Cattell fought back so fiercely that his house in Garrison-on-Hudson was nicknamed Fort Defiance. Cattell's good friend, Historian Charles Beard, quit the University. Cattell sued Columbia for $125,000, finally forced it to settle...
...confused with naivete) that is the essence of the Christian spirit, and which pierces all obscuring subterfuges of thought and language to fix and define the simple moral and religious points he is making. He also contributes a swift humor that humanizes what might otherwise be bald homilies...
...Bald, well-nosed Lord McGowan, 69, has sometimes been called the dictator of British industry. An office boy who rose to chairman the gigantic Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., he is also Britain's most persuasive and outspoken champion of cartels. To touring U.S. bigwigs, Lord McGowan has deprecated the U.S. antitrust acts. Hopefully he has asked if and when they would be repealed. Last week, Lord McGowan got his answer...
Trains ran as usual. Companies collected and kept fares, as usual. The New York Central's big bald President Frederick Ely Williamson, 67, took over the key eastern region with the rank of colonel. Six other major railroad heads also became uniformed colonels overnight-then continued at their desks. (A lieutenant was even assigned to a four-mile-long, two-employe railroad in Strasburg, Pa. Four days later the Army decided the road could run without his help.) In Washington, the Army's able Chief of Transportation, Major General C. P. Gross, and his knowing staff of borrowed...