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...Irwin Boyle Laughlin, longtime diplomat, was appointed by President Hoover to succeed Ogden H. Hammond, resigned, as Ambassador to Spain...
...Pittsburgh the name of Laughlin has a potency approaching that of Carnegie, Frick, Mellon. Pittsburgh's steel-minded burghers do homage to the firm name: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Last week, on recommendation of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed. President Hoover appointed bald, courtly Irwin Boyle Laughlin, long-time diplomat, as Ambassador to Spain...
After his graduation from Yale, Irwin Laughlin took a lowly job in the ancestral steel corporation. Ten years later he resigned as secretary of the company to embrace a diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house...
...President Hoover accepted the resignation, long-since proffered, of Ogden H. Hammond, President of Hoboken Terminal Co., Ambassador to Spain. Urged by influential Senator Reed of Pennsylvania as the successor: Irwin Boyle Laughlin of Pittsburgh, career diplomat (Athens. Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London), elder brother of Pittsburgh's George McCully Laughlin Jr. (Jones & Laughlin, steel...
...Jones & Laughlin Company showed increased earnings...