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...West Virginia coal traffic, which was expanding. Best guess for his removal seemed to be that Mr. Harahan, who had gone to C. & O. before the Van Sweringens bought control of it in 1922, was not as close to the Bachelor Brothers of railroading as John Joseph Bernet, their crack operating head. At any rate John J. Bernet left the presidency of Erie to replace William Harahan...
Died. John Joseph Bernet,, 67, president of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, July 8), Pete Marquette and Nickel Plate R. R., onetime telegrapher, self-made son of a Swiss immigrant blacksmith; after brief illness; in Cleveland...
...sold, after a block bid of $20,000 by Mrs. Hubbard had been refused, to dozens of different owners for a total of $57,565. Unnoticed by most in the room was a plump little man who kept nervously wiping his forehead and gazing first at Auctioneer Otto Bernet, then at Mrs. Hubbard as she bid $100 at a crack with the raise of a pencil. It was Escort Edwin Krenn. "All this is breaking my heart," declared this beneficiary under the McCormick will, with a wave of his hand. "It cuts into me, you know, it cuts into...
...Shares Bernard M. Baruch, financier..........4,000 Hernand Behn of I. T. & T........1,000 Sosthenes Belin. of I. T. & T............. 1,000 John J. Bernet, of C. & O. R. R ..............500 Cornelius N. Bliss ...............2,000 Claude K. Boettcher, Denver banker....... 1,000 Charles J. Bradley, of Erie R. R. ......... 500 Matthew Brush, financier ...........2,000 Edward G. Auckland, of N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. ................500 Floyd L. Carlisle, of N. Y. Edison Co..............2,000 Leon R. Clausen, of J. I. Case ...........500 Charles A. Corliss, of Lament, Corliss & Co. .............. 1,000 Patrick E. Crowley...
...included in 47 trusts. But only one behind was Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's American Gas & Electric. American Telephone, favorite of 1930, was held by only 30 trusts. Of the ten most popular issues five were utilities, two foods (National Dairy and General Foods), one rail (John J. Bernet's uniquely profitable Chesapeake & Ohio), one chemical (Union Carbide), and General Motors...