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Fortnight ago a succession of lush, heavily framed portraits passed across the stage of the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries. In the mannerly, well dressed crowd fingers snapped and pencils rose actively, and from his pulpit Auctioneer Otto Bernet bounced prices up $1,000 at a time. For Sir Thomas Lawrence's huge canvas of Mrs. Raikes and Daughter, an agent paid the top price of the sale, $17,100. A Van Dyck, a Raeburn, a Gainsborough, a Romney each fetched more than $10,000. All told, 74 canvases brought $286,100 in cash. To the uninitiated it sounded...
...merger plan rather than suffer exile from New England. Big Four executives called a meeting for this week to determine their next step. But bets were that the Depression, which had brought Pennsylvania's Atterbury, B. & O.'s Willard, New York Central's Crowley* and C. & O.'s Bernet together, would be over before every passenger coach and freight car in the East bears the name of one of their systems...
John Joseph Bernet, Chesapeake & Ohio...
Resumption of dividends resulted largely from the work of able John Joseph Bernet, put in charge of the Erie in 1927 when the Van Sweringens began operating the road. Last month, leaving Erie to become president of both Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette (TIME, June 3), he was succeeded by Charles E. Denny...
...Erie president will be Charles E. Denny, Erie vice president and long a Bernet man. Meanwhile W. J. Harahan, Chesapeake & Ohio President, will become its senior vice president, will also become senior vice president of Pere Marquette. Mr. Harahan became Chesapeake & Ohio President...