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Before Mr. Stone could take his seat on the Smithsonian board with Robert Somers Brookings (board president of St. Louis' Washington University); Irwin Boyle Laughlin (Jones & Laughlin, steel; U. S. Ambassador to Spain); John Campbell Merriam (president of Washington's Carnegie Institution), Frederic Adrian Delano and Dwight Whitney Morrow, Congress had first to pass a joint resolution approving him. With quick and courteous unanimity, the Senate approved such a resolution. Next day Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Robert Marion La Follette rushed upon the Senate floor demanding withdrawal of the Senate's approval of Mr. Stone...
...those of obtaining capable executives. When Cyrus Stephen Eaton (no steelman) last week announced the final details of the merger between his steel companies, the head of the new Republic Steel Corp. was of course Tom Mercer Girdler whom, three months ago, he snatched from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Jones & Laughlin announced that a man had been obtained to fill the Girdlerless post of presidency. He is George Gordon Crawford, who has been president of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., large U. S. Steel subsidiary since 1907. To fill Mr. Crawford...
...both occasions-as the Military Attache at Berlin and, for the week of the Colonel's visit, his Aide. The four figures in the doorway, shown in the picture in question are, left to right, Theodore Roosevelt, myself, a German officer (probably an adjutant representing the Emperor), Irwin Laughlin (the First Secretary of the Embassy...
...Jones & Laughlin...
...several shadows thrown before the Republic merger event was last month's (TIME, Nov. 4) resignation of Tom Mercer Girdler from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh's great "family" steel company. Last year Jones & Laughlin made Mr. Girdler president, having heard that the Eaton interests were negotiating with him, so that his departure from Jones & Laughlin indicated that Mr. Eaton had some large fish ready to fry. Mr. Girdler, who has spent nearly 30 years in various steel mills, swears vigorously and always keeps his hat on, to be ready for emergency calls...