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...largest evening paper in the U.S. will be 100 years old this week. In Philadelphia, where "nearly everybody reads the Bulletin" the decorous "Old Lady of Filbert Street" was all set to celebrate. For her birthday party she took over Convention Hall so that her family of 1,700 could eat-but not drink-and make merry. Leathery Robert McLean, president of the Bulletin and of the A.P., would make a little speech. And rays from the star Algol, which take 100 light years to reach Philadelphia, would trip the switch that lighted the six-foot birthday cake...
Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...
...Filbert's successor is Edward Riley Stettinius Jr., who is handsome, likable, supercharged with energy and white-haired at 35. His services were acquired by Steel Corp. last year after a meteoric rise to a General Motors vice-presidency and a brief but intense interlude in NRA. Son of the late Morgan Partner who directed Allied purchasing in the U. S. during the War, he is an executive by inheritance as well as by choice. Long on organization, strong on public relations, he has attended so many conferences and meetings that he habitually says "Gentlemen" even when talking...
Edward Riley Stettinius will probably never know so much about steel making as Steel's President William A. Irvin. He certainly will never know so much about Steel's finances as the fabulous Mr. Filbert. Yet he is apparently being groomed to succeed Chairman Myron Taylor. And Mr. Taylor, like his predecessor, is not a steel man but a lawyer. The Steel Corp.'s prime requirement is executive talent. If pure essence of executive potency can move brontosaurian Steel Corp., Edward Riley Stettinius will surely move...
...Hardiest of the Filbertian legends concerns his middle name. This originated' with the late Judge Elbert Gary, who once declared that after knowing Mr. Filbert 35 years he was still unable to discover what the "J" stood for. The story was perpetuated in dozens of press, biographies of Steelman Filbert. As anyone could discover by asking Mrs. Filbert, the "J'' stands for James...