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...locks himself in a hotel room for days working on some gigantic tabulation. In 1881 Bill Filbert started business life in the purchasing department of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. Later he went to the accounting department, became its chief. He has been with Steel since the late great John Pierpont Morgan organized it in 1901. Comptroller since 1902, a director since 1920, a finance committeeman since 1922, he lives quietly in an apartment house on Manhattan's Park Ave., rides the subway to No. 71 Broadway every day. Known as the world's richest clerk, he has successfully...
...successor to be appointed in order to establish the management upon a more permanent foundation composed of younger men." This contrasted sharply with his attitude last October. Revived was talk of friction between Mr. Farrell and some other members of the Finance Committee (Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan). In May Mr. Farrell denounced the steel industry for wage cutting, called it "a pretty cheap sort of business," but in October his own company cut wages 10%,. Recently there have been rumors of a further cut and Mr. Farrell may have resigned rather than share in the responsibility...
James Augustine Farrell has been president of U. S. Steel Corp. for 21 years. He was selected for that position by the late, great John Pierpont Morgan. He was and is famed as "father" of the country's steel export trade. Son of a ship master who was drowned, Jim Farrell started work at 16 in a New Haven wire mill for $4.65 a week. Now his salary is $100,000 a year, his pension will be about...
Elected. John William Davis, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate: to the vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. John in Lattingtown. L. I. Senior warden: John Pierpont Morgan...
...Manhattan. He was vice president of Bishop First National Bank of Honolulu for eleven years, returned to the U. S. last autumn, entered the insurance firm of Wainwright & Page, Inc. In October he married Mrs. Marie Louise Blair Hamilton, ex-wife of the late J. P. Morgan's grandson, Pierpont Morgan Hamilton...