Word: cortelyou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LAURENCE CORTELYOU SMITH Executive Secretary...
...notice a calm, boyish-looking man who slipped past him, his right hand bandaged in a handkerchief. Out of the handkerchief spat two bullets. President McKinley slumped on the arm of an aide. Instantly the young secretary was at his side. "My wife," murmured the wounded President, "be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell her-oh, be careful." During the eight-day vigil that followed, it was Secretary Cortelyou who took charge of the dying President's sick room...
...Presidency, the taciturn young secretary was invited to stay on at the White House. Soon the two were warm friends. "If I could only make you smile, George," said the Rough-Rider Colonel, "I could make you President of the United States." Roosevelt 1 could not make George Cortelyou smile but he could and did make him first Secretary of the new Department of Commerce & Labor. Year later Secretary Cortelyou resigned to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee, manager of President Roosevelt's 1904 campaign. Next he became Postmaster General and, finally, Secretary of the Treasury. In that...
Last week George Bruce Cortelyou, aged, white-thatched president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, summoned his trustees to the most important meeting in his business career. Up for vote was a new pension plan by which all employes and executives were to retire at 70. Among those to go would be President Cortelyou, nearly 73. Long did the trustees ponder the 26 years of his presidency before casting their votes: he had lifted the company's assets from $332,000,000 in 1909 to $1,360,000,000 in 1934; he had doubled the sale...
Last week the trustees elected as President Cortelyou's successor Frank Whitney Smith, president of New York Edison, who has been in the electrical business since 1880. Under the retirement plan he will have but two years to serve...