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...intrepid insurgents call themselves the Emergency Conservation Committee. Members are Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Manhattan socialite; Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies...
...shopkeeping and professional element of the town looked to the Johnson gang to keep order. Wayt Johnson, head of the clan, had a reputation for action, but he was trying hard to be law-abiding, he wanted to be elected sheriff. With his brothers Luther and Jim, his henchmen Brant White and Deadwood, he overawed many a would-be bad man, kept the peace in spite of tantalizing taunts. Even when they called him "Saint John- son," Wayt kept his temper. But when he got a city ordinance passed forbidding firearms to be carried in Alkali, trouble gath- ered like...
Frederick Brant Rentschler, strenuous president of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., brother of National City Bank President Gordon Sohn Rentschler, became president of United's subsidiary Chance-Vought Corp., taking the place of the late designer-tycoon Chance Milton Vought...
...Myron Charles Taylor (32,536); William R. Timken (26,640); George Fisher Baker Jr. (17,421); Frank Rogers Bacon (17,143); Marguerite S. Milligan (14,000); James M. Hopkins (12,826); Irenee du Pont (12,500); Frank H. Buhl (10,720). Other U. S. Steel shareholders: President Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft (1,072); Lawyer Elihu Root Jr. (1,300); Theodore Roosevelt (20 preferred); Packer Philip D. Armour (1,245); Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Secretary Mellon (3,428); President & Fellows of Harvard College (5,224 preferred); Union Theological Seminary (1,000 preferred...
United's Frederick Brant Rentschler became president and board chairman of NAT, supplanting Earle Reynolds and Howard E. Coffin. Other old-guard directors surrendered their chairs to United...