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Chairman Charles Bismark Ames of Texas Corp. grumbled about the "bungling efforts of Washington bureaucracy to regiment American industry...
...from White Sulphur Springs scurried Charles Bismark Ames, chairman of Texas Corp., bearing a copy of a Recovery program drafted by 90 U. S. tycoons (see p. 10). Into the White House he rushed eagerly, expecting to present his document at once to the President. Instead Pat McKenna, Presidential switchman, shunted him in to see Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. The President, said Mr. Mclntyre, just had too many appointments to see Mr. Ames that day. Perhaps Mr. Ames could stay over a day or two? Mr. Ames could not. So he left his program with Secretary Mclntyre...
...Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers were Owen D. Young (General Electric), Silas Hardy Strawn (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Henry I. Harriman (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Clinton Lloyd Bardo (Manufacturers Association), Lewis H. Brown (Johns-Manville), Paul W. Litchfield (Goodyear Tires), Charles Bismark Ames (Texas Corp.), Ernest T. Weir (National Steel), Walter Jodok Kohler (of Kohler), George Harrison Houston (Baldwin Locomotives), Andrew Wells Robertson (Westinghouse) and 79 others. They were all rehearsing to extend the glad hand of friendship to the New Deal...
...board chairman. Week later at a board meeting Mr. Holmes pre-emptorily demanded resignations from the Laphams and four other directors. When they were refused Jack Lapham moved that Mr. Holmes resign and if he did not that he be ousted. Mr. Holmes was automatically out. Kindly Charles Bismark Ames, a former vice president, was recalled from the American Petroleum Institute to head the board. Last week in answering Mr. Holmes's attack Texaco officials swore that as long as Mr. Holmes was president he had never asked for more directors; that many of his accusations were just...
...than now." Presently he was succeeded as president by William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, and made chairman of Texas Co. And last week, without .explanation, he resigned that job having held it a little over a week. In place of downright Mr. Holmes was elected a kindly old gentleman, Charles Bismark Ames, formerly vice president and counsel of Texas Co., since last autumn president of the American Petroleum Institute at $50,000 a year...