Word: gypsum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrialists as President Alexander Legge of International Harvester Co.; President David A. Crawford of Pullman Co.; Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman was Sewell Lee Avery, able president of U. S. Gypsum Co. and of Montgomery Ward. "I have no magic in my briefcase and no rabbit in my hat," said Secretary Mills. The first week's experience of the new Manhattan committee suggested that other hats and briefcases were in like condition...
Sewell Lee Avery, the president of United States Gypsum Co. who was put in as chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co. (TIME, Dec. 7) and then president, has a peculiar way of talking. It is a slow, somewhat sarcastic and testy way. Men who sit with him on his numerous directorates know that before they get down to the agenda they are likely to hear Mr. Avery launch into often irrelevant, always amusing discourse...
...trained in the trade will be elected. Mentioned as such candidates were Eugene Peeples Thomas, vice president of U. S. Steel, and I. Lamont Hughes, president of Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie Steel Co. Outside possibility was Sewell Lee Avery, famed Chicago president of U. S. Gypsum, and a director of U. S. Steel, who was last month selected to head Montgomery Ward & Co. with whose affairs the House of Morgan is also concerned...
...University of Chicago's most helpful trustees. Its Distinguished Service chair was founded by him with $250,000 endowment. Seldom publicized, he is quietly recognized as one of Chicago's first citizens. His recognition by the House of Morgan after U. S. Gypsum's showing in its struggle with Certain-Teed was doubtless due to the fact that another potent competitor in the difficult building trade is Morganized Johns-Manville Co. When in 1921 Montgomery Ward faced grave difficulties because of inventory value shrinkage, the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles was made president. Expansion followed...
Sewell Lee Avery, 57, US, Steel director, president of U, S, Gypsum Co., was made chairman of Montgomery Ward Co, succeeding Silas Hardy Strawn who became chairman of the executive committee...