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Elisha Walker, bankless banker, and Herbert Bayard Swope, rufous onetime executive editor of the old New York World, were made directors of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. at the request of a group reported to hold 150,000 shares and headed by Bernard Mannes Baruch. Financier Baruch's direct entrance into B. M. T. affairs was thought likely to hasten unification of New York's scrambled subways...