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...magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years the senior of Glenn Hammond Curtiss. Charles Michael Schwab (Bethlehem Steel Co.) and Julius Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck & Co.) are 66. Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone...
Classifying the group, rough similarities are immediately apparent with American enterprise. All are, or have been, potent factors in the industrial development of the U. S. With the exception of Aviators Wright & Curtiss, all are 60 or over. With the exception of Steelman Schwab, who went to St. Francis College, and Tireman Firestone, who went to business college, none of the group progressed beyond a public high school education. Most of the eight have been powers in their particular fields, have now forged beyond their fields into larger industrial problems. The Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world...
...knows how the producers have been able to detect this curious hunger; but they have not been slow in satisfying it. Hither is the present trend of Ziggy; the Shubert show, White Lilacs, makes a valentine out of a vulgar though exciting episode. In The New Moon, Schwab and Mandel, from the cheers and collegiate stomping of Good News, have turned to New Orleans before the French Revolution and the dreamy schemes of a handsome Gallic aristocrat called Robert to build a state wherein men may live as equals and wherein women shall be compelled to marry them...
Chairman Charles Michael Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. is one Big Businessman who had not, until last week, made a political statement. When he spoke, Mr. Schwab had news. Said he: "I think more of my job than I do of politics. They wanted me to be Treasurer of the Republican campaign, but I turned it down...
...Wall Street. But it actually has $14,000,000 of paid in capital and surplus, more money than any bank ever started with.* And it has Mr. Howell as its senior executive. Thirty years ago he was one of Carnegie's bright young men-with Charles Michael Schwab, Henry Clay Frick and others who became millionaires. Mr. Howell was head of the Carnegie Steel Co.'s credit department. Later he became a vice president of the National Bank of Commerce in Manhattan, and extended his personal financial work. Then came directorships with the Bankers' Trust...