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...Exposition. In 1919, after getting a D. S. M. for War work, he returned to General Electric, surprised everyone when he was made president of the company in 1922. His daughter Henrietta is as studious as her father was. She works in the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. His brother Herbert Bayard never was particularly studious. Nine years younger than Gerard, Herbert went to Harvard, returned to his hometown, St. Louis, to work for the Post-Dispatch. The family, which still owns one of the biggest shoe stores in town, objected to his newspaper career, were finally reconciled when he became executive...
...valve principle, four-speed transmission, hydraulic boosted brakes, extra rigid bodies. Big and solid and sleek, a Stutz car carries Stutz Associate Schwab. Other names for Stutz to conjure with: William E. Dodge Stokes and Frederic de Peyster, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Witherbee Black. Paul Whiteman and Herbert Bayard Swope. Cardinal Dougherty of Phila- delphia wears his red biretta in a Stutz...
...Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime executive editor of the late, muzzle-hating New York World, startled newsmen by his rigorous advocacy of wartime censorship and propaganda. He would put all publications under Federal license with a Secretary of Information in the President's Cabinet. Said...
Albert W. Peet succeeded the late Sidney Morse Colgate as chairman of Col-gate-Palmolive-Peet Co. S. Bayard Colgate, recently made a partner in Spencer, Trask 6 Co., resigned as a C-P-P vice president, remains a director...
...paying the bills and prevent mistaking him for the butler. The latter advantage is not important, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long ago, wearing an evening suit of beautiful claret-colored damask. Why, no one knew. In his house there can't be any mistake about the host. And the butler had nothing to do with it, for Swope's servants are black...