Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deputy Rev. John Howard Melish of Brooklyn who helped write the report pointed out that many of its recommendations were quoted from or based on statements of Gerard Swope, Owen D. Young and Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Nevertheless, upon Deputy Wickersham's complaint the House of Deputies deleted the House of Bishops' recommendation ("representing the mind of the Church"), said merely that the report was "given careful consideration...
Swope Plan. When a man gets to be head of a $494,000,000 corporation which employs 78,380 people he is likely to cogitate deeply on the social and economic responsibilities of industry. From this eminence, President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co. has evidently done a great deal of this sort of thinking. Last week, at the annual dinner of the National Electric Manufacturers' Association in Manhattan, he outlined an ambitious industrial plan for the U. S. Far from fearing Government intervention in business, as did Governor Ritchie, President Swope courted it. His scheme proposed a national organization...
...Author. Gerard Swope is 58 years old. He is an engineer and a salesman. He started working for General Electric during a vacation from M. I. T. because he wanted to see what they were doing with electric lights at the Chicago Columbian Exposition. In 1919, after getting a D. S. M. for War work, he returned to General Electric, surprised everyone when he was made president of the company in 1922. His daughter Henrietta is as studious as her father was. She works in the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. His brother Herbert Bayard never was particularly studious. Nine years younger...
While the story Mr. Flynn tells is true he offers no alluring remedies. He does, however, make a few improving suggestions. Among these: that corporations should adopt uniform accounting methods (a suggestion made last week by Gerard Swope-see p. 16); that lists of stockholders should be made public; that directors should be drafted from genuine investors in the company, not tycoons who may have other interests at heart or who pay no attention to the position. He would have no holding companies, would have no company own stock in another except in rare cases. As for general Cumshavian tendencies...
Observers noted that though the racing fleet was as numerous as usual the accompanying fleet was smaller than it has been for 30 years. A few big auxiliaries-Cornelius Crane's Illyria, Gerard Lambert's three-master Atlantic, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Michabo-were ready to follow the races, but of the customary squadron of large steam yachts there were only two: Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro and George Fisher Baker's Viking. On board the Viking, because his own flagship Valiant was too small. Commodore Aldrich held a meeting of all captains...