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Postmaster General. James Aloysius Farley, 44, took the portfolio that generally goes to a President-maker. More than any other man, he sold Franklin Roosevelt to the U. S. just as he used to sell gypsum and now sells building materials, through Elks' Clubs, among Red Men, by mail, over the telephone and in back-slapping personal contacts. Big, bald, breezy Jim Farley steps into the Post
Died. Sewell Lee A very Jr., 31, only son of the president of Montgomery Ward & Co. and U. S. Gypsum Co. and director of U. S. Steel Corp.; by inhaling gas; in his father's Chicago home...
...headed by Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and Rawleigh Warner, vice president of Brothers Beman and Henry Dawes's Pure Oil Co. The organizing committee was said to include President Sewell Lee Avery of both U. S. Gypsum and Montgomery Ward, Owen D. Young, President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck and President Philip Ream Clarke of Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., stockholders in which will have an opportunity to buy shares in Banker Dawes's new venture...
...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...