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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stettinius has just turned 37, has a big backlog of executive training. Son and namesake of the original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides...
...Maudlin's thesis of Morgan control was supported not by evidence of security ownership but by the debatable theory of interlocking directorships-i. e. if a Morgan partner sits on the board of Guaranty Trust and a Guaranty Trust official sits on the board of a coal company, then the House of Morgan controls the coal company-not to mention the Guaranty Trust. But Governor Earle promptly opened up on "the witch doctors of Wall Street...
Married. Winifred Birkin War,. London socialite, divorced wife of Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, onetime (1917-22) Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household; to Marquis de Casa Maury, Cuban operator of a Mayfair cinemansion; in London. Mrs. Ward for years was the favorite dancing partner and friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales...
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican...
...unpaid, takes considerable time and many prominent citizens fear to become embroiled in politics. Finally, two weeks ago, the mayor found respectable citizens who would take three of the jobs, giving him a majority of eleven on the board. Chairman of the board, suave Mark Eisner, law partner of Tammany's former leader, George W. Olvany, continued as a holdover in the fourth job, waited for the mayor to reappoint or replace...