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Long closely associated with his father in telephonic maneuvres has been Hunter Larrabee Gary. When the new company was formed last week it was announced that he will be its chairman. Other of his activities include a directorship on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, vice-chairmanship of Commerce Trust Co. of Kansas City (largest bank in loth Federal Reserve District). Deprived of eyesight for several years by an accident, he went to no college, but was tutored in the science of telephony, accounting, commercial law. Now he golfs, motors, fishes, hunts. His summers are usually spent in a palatial home...
...Lear Black, onetime clerk, raised himself through the grades of business and finance to the directorship of banks, shipping companies, insurance firms, was longest identified with Baltimore's Fidelity & Deposit Co. Known as the richest man in Maryland (he was insured for $750,000), he could easily afford to indulge his hobbies, chief among which was traveling by airplane. In his private planes, with two pilots whom he originally borrowed from Royal Dutch Air lines in 1927, he flew approximately 130,000 mi. in all parts of the world...
Resigned. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 51, Cleveland railroad tycoon, from all executive positions with railroads, except one directorship (Missouri Pacific...
Such advertisements socialite Japanese matrons have long been accustomed to read in magazines of the highest class? this one for example under the august directorship of a publisher honored time and again with decorations by the "Son of Heaven" himself, Mr. Hikoichi Motoyama, president of both the Osaka Mainichi and the world-famed Tokyo Nichi Nichi...
...Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk and Havre, Hamburg, and Bremen, which calls for five 16-knot steamships. The Roosevelt Line is thus a young man's company, and the accession of Commodore Astor emphasizes this feature. His directorship certainly means added re sources for the Roosevelt Line in its bidding for the Baltimore-Hamburg mail contract, and may well mean that a substantial part of the Astor fortune is to be devoted to building up the American merchant marine...