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...Cadillac. In 1922, General Electric elected Owen D. Young as board chairman and Gerard Swope as president. The first time young Charlie Wilson saw Gerard Swope was at G.E.'s plant at Maspeth, L.I., where Charlie was assistant superintendent. He led the inquisitive Mr. Swope through the entire plant, showed him the panelboards, the switches and the armored cables in the making. The next thing Charlie Wilson heard from Mr. Swope was that the Maspeth plant was being scrapped...
...Vice President. By the time Charlie Wilson became G.E.'s executive vice president in 1937, he was automatically slated to succeed Gerard Swope, and did, three years later. Writing about him at the time, FORTUNE called him "the least known" executive of a large U.S. company, duly recorded that its files contained but a few clippings on him, which had duly been filed under the name of Charles Erwin Wilson, then executive vice president of General Motors.* Charlie Wilson was known to almost no one except G.E. men. In his presidential office on the 45th floor of Manhattan...
...Some of the others: Malta Magnificent, by Major Francis Gerard; Malta Spitfire, by George F. Beurling and Leslie Roberts; Malta Story, by W. L. River...
Died. Dr. Gerard de Geer, 84, University of Stockholm's famed geochronologist; in Stockholm. By measurements of soil cross-sections, Baron de Geer established a climatic calendar that reached back 16,000 years...
Married. Dorothy McGuire, 25, heart-faced stage & screen actress (Claudia)] and John Swope, 35, vice president of Southwest Airways, son of General Electric director Gerard Swope; each for. the first time; in Hollywood...