Word: schwab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican cries to rally around the old banner seem an echo of a lost cause, whose only successful champions, like Senator Vandenburg of Michigan, now owe only nominal allegiance to the party. The Democrats have lured into their camp many magnates of the Hooverite stamp, such as Mr. Schwab, who correctly interpret the assurance of the Administration, that private profit will continue, as the salvation of capitalism in an unfriendly world...
...were the famed voices of industry heard at the Congress of American Industry. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel, Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad, Swope of General Electric, Sloan of General Motors, Gifford of A. T. & T., Avery of Montgomery Ward were not even among those present. But genial, white-thatched Clinton Lloyd Bardo, who resigned month ago as president of New York Shipbuilding Corp., was there to uphold the position of tycoons...
...Page Miss Glory (by Philip Dunning & Joseph Schrank; Schwab & Dunning, producers) is a broad farce about the beauty prize racket. A pair of idlers are about to be tossed out of Manhattan's non-existent Ritz-Plaza Hotel for failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer...
...Altoona, Pa., the Order of Yellow Dogs solemnly initiated Charles Michael Schwab into its pack. Steelman Schwab set up the required ''night howl" by yelping: "I have been presented to the Royalty of Europe, and I could not remember their names and told them so. I cannot remember the terrible names of your officers, and so I shall just call you brother dogs." Remembering the Yellow Dogs' mission, he added: "I assure you I shall not forget my obligations to the underdog...
...Cabinet,* M. Diagne served as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab. In 1897 he succeeded Mr. Schwab as superintendent of Homestead Steel Works. In 1901 when Mr. Schwab left the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. to become U. S. Steel's first president, Mr. Corey followed him as head of Carnegie. Two years later he again succeeded Mr. Schwab-this...