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When in 1914 Tom Mercer Girdler went to work for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...
Until last week the Joneses and the Laughlins must have thought they had outsmarted Financier Eaton, for as soon as Mr. Girdler was made president he bought a $140,000 home in Sewickley, smart suburb, began to make his name known to other Pittsburgh families than his employers, seemed definitely settled there. But last week he resigned from Tones & Laughlin to be "actively engaged in the development of plans affecting the iron and steel industry." It was evident that the Eaton interests had. won, especially when two days later R. J. Wysor, general manager and assistant to President Girdler, also...
...Washington, last week, Walter H. Girdler, president of Helium Co., appeared before the Government's new helium committee (Secretaries Adams, Good, Lament) to protest that Government manufacture of helium in competition with private industry is contrary to U. S. policy and precedent, that it threatens harm to commercial aeronautics...
Elected. T. M. Girdler, vice president in charge of operations for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh, to be president; to succeed Charles A. Fisher, resigned to withdraw from active business...