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...bank being started by General Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, Sept. 12), reached a point where shares were being sold by a syndicate headed by Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and Rawleigh Warner, vice president of Brothers Beman and Henry Dawes's Pure Oil Co. The organizing committee was said to include President Sewell Lee Avery of both U. S. Gypsum and Montgomery Ward, Owen D. Young, President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck and President Philip Ream Clarke of Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., stockholders in which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Sep. 26, 1932 | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

Charles Gates Dawes, 63, and his brother, Rufus Dawes, 61, and their families, went to Grand Manitoulin Island, Georgian Bay, Canada, to catch fish with their brother, Beman Dawes, 58. En route, in Milwaukee, Charles Gates Dawes said: "It looks like Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...FOUR DAWES BROTHERS-Charles Gates, Rufus Cutler (public utilities), Beman Gates (ex-Congressman from Ohio), Henry May (ex-Comptroller of the Currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Brothers' Plight | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...disgruntled go-between was Emmet Queen, who claims that it was he, not Beman Gates Dawes (brother of the Vice President) who brought about Mr. Dillon's recent sale of the Pure Oil Co. to the Ohio Cities Gas Co. for $23,500,000. Mr. Queen asserts that Mr. Dawes was Mr. Dillon's "dummy" in the deal, and wants $1,100,000 go-between commission for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dillon in Court | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Thus was protraction protracted. Many another oil bigwig?including Beman Gates Dawes, brother of Vice President Dawes and board chairman of the Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental?yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col. Stewart submitted to the Senate's arrest in his hotel room, ate his meals under surveillance. Then he got a court to free "his body, wherever found," by a writ of habeas corpus. Perhaps he reflected, as did observers, that at least it was lucky he was not Beman Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Old Oil | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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