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...turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric President Gerard Swope; Chairman Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago's Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kirstein, vice president of Filene's, Boston department store; Austin Finch, president of Thomasville (N. C.) Chair Co., chairman of the Southern Manufacturer's Association's committee already at work in connection with...
Harvard had a huge crew-183 Ib. to a man-slow over sprint courses but formidable for a four-mile race like last week's at New London. In it were Coxswain Henry Hamilton Bissell, Stroke Gerard Cassedy and four other oarsmen who were on the crews that beat Yale last year and the year before. Coach Ed Leader's Yale boat, known to be fast, had won all three of its sprint races earlier in the season. But no one knew whether it had enough endurance for a long pull, particularly if the wind blew...
...prosecutor's evidence against Charles Edwin Mitchell, charged with defrauding the Government of income tax payments, was virtually completed in Manhattan last week. Biggest witness of the week was Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., who as a director of National City heard Mitchell intimate that National City Co. should reimburse him for private losses he sustained when he bolstered the price of the bank stock. Since Mitchell's chief loss was through the alleged sale of stock to his wife and the repurchase of it later at the same price (though the market value had fallen...
Last month Stockholder James Watson Gerard, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, parted the secret folds sufficiently to learn that the company's listed assets of "$92,000,000 in Government and other marketable securities" had declined $28,000,000 in book value (TIME, May 8). At the same time, Frank Altschul, chairman of the Stock Exchange List Committee, made public a year-long file of correspondence between his body and Allied Chemical. Mr. Altschul, Lazard Freres partner and brother-in-law to New York's Governor Lehman, had politely and persistently asked for a complete statement of the company...
...university building in Heidelberg there is (or was) a tablet bearing the names of the men who, at the suggestion of Jacob Gould Schurman, provided the money for the building. The names are: Jules S. Bache, George F. Baker, William Gerard Beckers, James Brown, Walter P. Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff...