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Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
...Entertained for such friends and business associates as Captain Torkild Rieber, chairman of Texas Corp...
...real evidence that Nazi Westrick was a conspirator, probably for the reason that he isn't-his object is not small time spying but big-time propaganda among U. S. businessmen. But the "revelations" proved highly embarrassing for a number of people. One of those embarrassed was Captain Rieber, who had made the mistake of doing small favors for a Nazi propagandist who was an old friend. He saw the press in a hurry and declared that he did not like the idea of dictatorships, but that his company was in the oil business, not in diplomacy or politics...
Lawyer Callan happens to work for the firm of Shearman & Sterling, one of whose clients is Captain Rieber's Texas Corp. At week's end, Dr. Westrick packed his trunks without haste, made ready to move out of Lawyer Callan's house "as soon as possible." Next week, on Aug. 12, his three-months lease expires...
Meanwhile things were happening on the board. To it went a trouble-shooter of experience, William Grey Dunnington, who had helped push Cap Rieber to the top of Texas Corp., has for some years been attorney for Mrs. O'Brien. Promptly Mr. Dunnington was elected a member of a trouble-shooting executive committee of seven, including Morgan-Partner Harry P. Davison, onetime Morgan-Partner William Ewing, Donald Kirk David (representing the Ziegler interests) and Paul Fleischmann. Last week Standard Brands had other changes to announce. To President Thomas L. Smith, onetime Standard Brands wagon man, had gone the duties...