Word: control
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assuming that the businessman control idea actually goes into operation, whom might Chicagoans select as leader of the business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity...
...over Alvin C. Reis, Progressive candidate. Mr. Reis was one of the signers of the Kohler-ouster petition. While his defeat was aided by the split of the Progressive faction between Mr. Reis and John W. Eber, 1927 speaker, the fact remained that the Governor's supporters secured control of the House, thereby the carnage sufferred by La Follettism...
...that du Pont-Legate Henry Davis had recently been chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts had full control; it presaged a close alliance between General Motors Corp. (25% du Pont) and U. S. Rubber, onetime "biggest" manufacturer of rubber products...
...Phillips Brooks House is a Harvard organization appealing to men of certain tastes and interests, just as do other groups in the University. It has a function of service to Harvard which will not be affected by a centralization of control within the walls of the House. Beyond these opportunities to aid the College, there is a definite task awaiting the workers of the House in the city of Cambridge, a genuine need of social work that may be met in part by such college men as care to offer themselves. The confining of the direction of Brooks House policy...
British Railroads & Busses. U. S. railroaders dared but admire, not imitate, the action of British railroaders who now are buying control of all motor bus lines which conflict with their traffic. In England municipalities own most of the city, suburban and even interurban bus lines. With their authorities, Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir Ralph Wedgewood, able, persuasive financiers both, have had on the whole successful parleys. As for the U. S., the New England railroads have done most to absorb or create bus lines. The severest railroad-bus competition is along the Pacific Coast...