Word: schwab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles E. Hughes Charles G. Dawes Charles M. Schwab Charles Curtis Charles S. Chaplin Charles H. Mayo Charles B. Dillingham Charles ("Chick") Evans Charles Ross Charles G.Norris...
...family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic form. People marvel sometimes...
...when he reprinted in his own magazine, with a generous photograph and headline an article from Circulation (press trade sheet) entitled, "All About B. C. FORBES?" What greater testimony to Editor Forbes's eminence could there have been than the fact that the article was signed by Charles M. Schwab, steel man? Text from the article...
...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...
Charles M. Schwab, (Bethlehem Steel): "In Baltimore, I addressed 800 members of the Association of Commerce at a dinner tendered me in recognition of the wealth I have brought the city with my Sparrows Point steel plants, of which the payrolls now total 25 millions per annum. I told them that I had just consented to spend two millions on my dry docks in Baltimore and had no single interest in the city to which I was not ready to devote every dollar I could borrow. I said that in ten years Baltimore would eclipse even Pittsburgh as a steel...