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...directors are Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. and Walter Sherman Gifford. Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. is named for his great-grandfather, the Junius Spencer Morgan who in 1854 left the Boston dry goods field to become a partner in the London bank of George Peabody & Co. It was this Junius Spencer Morgan (not John Pierpont Morgan I) who originated the famed remark that "Any one who sells a bear on the United States will go broke." The present Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. was graduated from Harvard in 1914, is a Morgan partner, a director of General Motors, grandson of the late...
...Morgan Partner, no banker, is Walter Sherman Gifford, president of American Telephone & Telegraph, now U. S. Steel Director. Mr. Gifford began his commercial career clerking for the Western Electric Co. at $10 weekly. It is said that he had intended to send the letter of application which got him the job to the General Electric Co., confused the two Electrics, thus accidentally landed with the Western. His work attracted the attention of Theodore N. Vail, who made him chief statistician. By 1915 he was Vice President; in 1917, as head of the Council of National Defense, he directed the purchase...
...took out patents on this beam, which is rolled from one piece of steel instead of being made from several pieces riveted together. In 1926, U. S. Steel began the construction of a plant in Homestead, Pa., for the making of beams similar to the Gray beams. Thereupon Eugene Gifford Grace, Bethlehem president, announced that the Gray patents were still in force and that the making of Gray beams by a Bethlehem competitor constituted a patent infringement. Ensued a Bethlehem-U. S.Steel controversy which the courts are now called upon to settle...
...Eugene Gifford Grace, President of Bethlehem, has been somewhat overshadowed in popular estimation by Charles M. Schwab, head of Bethlehem directors...
...Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, lean and active at 63, purchased, last week, a three-masted schooner on which he will sail in March for the South Sea Islands and the Galapagos, where he will fish, observe and collect deep sea life and works. This, said Mr. Pinchot, will be the fulfillment of a dream he has dreamed since college (Yale) days. Said charming Mrs. Pinchot: ". . . Yes, Gifford should have been a doctor." Mrs. Pinchot expects to go with him on the cruise of dreams...