Word: chairmanship
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...Steel Board. The appointment of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont to the U. S. Steel Finance Committee, last week, further italicized the Morgan sense of responsibility for U. S. Steel and gave rise to rumors that Mr. Lamont might succeed Mr. Morgan to the board chairmanship...
...fault though a faithful partisan. His grandfather collected camel's-hair shawls. He has collected friends. Getting Theodore Roosevelt for a father-in-law was a reward of that same industry and wit by which he attained-and not through the father-in-law-to the chairmanship at the meetings of all the stockholders...
...obstruction after a lingering illness, in Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail...
...other stockholders of the roads, particularly of the "Katy" began opposing the merger. The I. C. C. gave heed. Recently the Commission ordered Mr. Loree to quit the Katy chairmanship. Last week it commanded him to resign his directorship. Reasons: His dual directorship was not in the public or private interests; it tended to nullify competitive activities of the two roads...
...following are current and recurrent: 1) Each New Year's Eve, John Pierpont Morgan summons his partners to No. 23 .Wall St., distributes gigantic checks as rewards for the year's work; 2) President Coolidge is kept busy answering appeals that he accept the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Corp.; 3) Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, the onetime Miss Florence Pullman and daughter of Founder George M. Pullman, names all Pullman cars. For this labor, which reputedly occupies one half-hour each day, she earns either $100 a day or $30,000 a year...