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Louis Franklin Swift, 71, eldest surviving son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, resigned his directorship in Swift 8 Co. Two years ago he was succeeded as president of the company by his brother Gustavus Franklin Swift...
...Radiothermy is now being used, in preference to malaria, to create the artificial fever which makes paretics at least temporarily clear-minded. Two years ago Dr. Whitney suffered a nervous breakdown. Last week he was a patient of the Mayo Clinic. He had long wanted to abdicate his research directorship. But no one with G. E. was willing to supplant him, and President Gerard Swope would bring in no outsider. Last week President Swope made a decision, accepted Dr. Whitney's resignation as director of research, continued him as vice president in charge of the 300 scientists whom...
...factory when the Revolution broke. Promptly he threw down his tools, enlisted in the new "Red Army," fought through several campaigns against the "White Armies," rose to middling military rank, middling popularity. When Russia's civil war was over Comrade Bulganin's prestige carried him to directorship of Moscow's biggest electrical machinery factory. It did well. He received a Red order of merit, quietly became a power in the Moscow Soviet. He was elected its president-Mayor of Moscow-last year...
Last June Albert Coates got a notable job: the general music directorship of the United Philharmonic Orchestras of the U. S. S. R. and musical directorship of the opera houses of Moscow and Leningrad. Last year Conductor Coates had plenty to do; he might conduct a Boris Godounov in Moscow one night, hurry off to rehearse in Leningrad the next morning. Next year he will be even busier. Besides working with the excellent orchestras and operas of Russia's two chief cities, he must improve the mediocre ones at Tiflis, Baku, Kiev, Kharkov, Svendlovsk, Stalingrad and possibly others...
Last week the following was news: James Wood Johnson, 76, a founder of Johnson & Johnson (surgical supplies) resigned from the presidency of the company which he has held for 22 years, resigned his directorship and all positions with subsidiaries. Said his announcement: "Having . . . received notice that I am a pensioner, I herewith tender my resignation." His resignation accepted "with profound regret," Mr. Johnson prepared to sail for Scotland...