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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Paper Co. lured brilliant, voluble Archibald Robertson Graustein out of a Boston law firm, made him president, gave him free rein. Mr. Graustein proceeded to take the bit in his teeth. International was huge when he got it. Archie Graustein made it colossal, chiefly by adding power properties. Before he got through, International Paper & Power Co. was an $800,000,000 empire stretching from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico...
...resign as president of International Paper, but to remain president of International Paper & Power (top holding company for all the subsidiaries). Mr. Graustein resigned from both in a huff and went back to lawyering. Richard J. Cullen, who had been in the paper business since he was 22, got his jobs...
...Harrison Williams emerged from an Ohio bicycle factory to try his hand in Wall Street. In 1906 he helped splice a group of Midwest and Southern utilities into American Gas & Electric Co., six years later created another holding company, Central States Electric Corp. Central States presently got working control of North American Co., itself a utility holding company, whose total assets today are $900,000,000. By 1924 Mr. Williams held 96% of Central States' stock. By 1929 its shares had been split 60-for-1, the value of a single original share had risen from...
...from an Eastern university, had influential friends and a high social rating. Of the present twelve partners, ten are university graduates, all are listed in the Social Register. The three new partners are all public-school men; only one went to college; none is in the Social Register; none got his start through influence...
Handsome Henry Clay Alexander graduated from Vanderbilt in 1923, from Yale Law School in 1925. On his Yale record he got a job with Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (Morgan lawyers). Bright work and sound judgment earned him his law partnership in 1935. At 36, Henry Alexander will now pool his legal brains with Partner Russell C. Leffingwell's and Partner Charles Steele...