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CHARLES V. MOONEY St. Louis...
...newly created office of "chairman of the finance committee." Then he moved Sorensen to a back seat as vice chairman of the board. Thus the stage was set for a new president and board chairman, who proved to be none other than handsome, globe-girdling James David Mooney, 61, for 19 years head of General Motors' overseas business. Mooney will be both president and board chairman, thus hold the jobs formerly held by Canaday and Sorensen...
...Mooney, Willys now has one of the auto industry's top salesmen. He took G.M.'s overseas sales from 21,000 cars in 1922 to 282,000 in 1928. When war virtually wiped out his job, he did a notable job for the Navy building and tooling production plants. On V-J day he quit...
...peacemaker, Jim Mooney has already gotten results; and Sorensen bids fair to win his argument. Within a few months Willys expects to borrow enough from a New York bank to modernize its plant in Toledo. By that time, Willys expects to be able to announce details...
Detroit's brainy, golf-playing, labor-minded Archbishop Edward Mooney was the first American to hold the high diplomatic post of Apostolic Delegate (to India and to Japan). He was elected chairman of the U.S. hierarchy's policy-making body, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, soon after his return to the U.S. in 1933-presumably at the Vatican's behest. He has made the N.C.W.C. a force to be reckoned with in U.S. life, from the movies and social welfare to education and political questions like the draft. He is reported once to have said: "If your...