Word: schwab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the American Iron and Steel Institute which, last week, gathered in public session in the ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. Before him, in front row chairs, were sitting the presidents of other steel companies. Chairman of the meeting was Bethlehem's Charles Michael Schwab. He opened the proceedings with a magnificent piece of the optimism for which he is famed. Then Mr. Farrell got up and began "... I was thinking as I was sitting in the chair here whether I ought to talk about the desulphurization of oxygen or have something to say about the present...
...that was a fighting matter. The Farrell talk was honest fight-talk to the end. His last words were: "I am not going to give the industry, Mr. Schwab, the sort of benediction that you have given them and say, now, you are all fine men and you are all doing good jobs. I say that we are not doing a good job, and until we do a good job we should not indulge in fulsome praise...
...Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, gerohrgedeckt, Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, ge-doo. The leonine head and thick-lensed spectacles of Archer Gibson, private organist for Charles Michael Schwab, bobbed over the keys of a small portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan...
...spirit the Bach Festival in Bethlehem has stayed surprisingly the same as when Fred Wolle started it in 1900. Steel now possesses Bethlehem but Steelman Charles Michael Schwab helps support the Choir. Lehigh's Packer Memorial Church houses the performance because the Moravian church will no longer accommodate the crowds. But the Moravian Trombone Choir plays from the tower before each session, as it did in 1900 from the Moravian Church Tower, as its forerunners did when George Washington passed through the village. Last week's program did not differ materially from those of the past: cantatas were...
Honored. Frank Gillmore, president of the Actors' Equity Association; with the annual gold medal of the American Arbitration Association "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"; in Manhattan. Previous medalists: Steelman Charles M. Schwab, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, Manhattan Realtor Frederick Brown, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...