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...heavy investments in real estate mortgages. On Monday night lights gleamed from the directors' room on the seventh floor of the Guardian Building. Governor William A. Comstock presided over the conference hurriedly assembled. The Guardian clearly could not face another day. From Washington came Secretary of Commerce Roy Dikeman Chapin. a Detroit man. and Under Secretary of the Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine. Most of Detroit's industrial and banking tycoons jammed the smoke-blue room. At 2 a. m. Governor Comstock announced simply that he would declare a holiday. Over the violent protest of the bankers, he told...
...Chrysler for Chrysler; Alvan Macauley for Packard (and as president of Automobile Chamber of Commerce, for the Industry) ; Albert Russel Erskine for Studebaker. Henry Ford still spoke for Lincoln: his Ford is not a member of the show. Notable among the changes had been the departure of Roy Dikeman Chapin, to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce, leaving William Joseph Mc-Aneeny active leader of Hudson.* The Industry's first U. S. Ambassador, John North Willys, who wisely sold his common stock for $20,000,000 in 1929, was home from Poland and again in control of his company...
...head the Commerce Department, closest to his heart of all executive agencies, President Hoover turned to Detroit, picked breezy, bustling, ambitious Roy Dikeman Chapin, board chairman of Hudson Motor Car Co. Long have Mr. Chapin's friends known of his yearning for high public office. Now 52, he started as a youngster in Ransom E. Olds's automobile factory, photographing Oldsmobiles for the catalog. At 24 he was the Olds sales manager, drove the first car from Detroit to New York in one week, the tonneau piled high with spare parts. He helped organize the Hudson company, became...
Edsel Ford, Board Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night...
...Dikeman Chapin, chairman, Hudson...