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...duty of informing the Administration of the Chamber's will fell upon smiling, long-nosed Harper Sibley, the Chamber's new head and a personal friend of President Roosevelt since student days at Groton and Harvard. An affable Rochester (N. Y.) capitalist with his family's traditional interest in that city's Security Trust Co., President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois...
...Constructive criticism does not necessarily imply opposition to the President's program," explained Mr. Sibley last week. "There is no reason why we have to follow the wishes of the President. I will seek conferences with the President with a view to co-operative effort toward recovery, and I hope to do so in a friendly spirit-but on the basis of a clear difference of opinion...
...Chamber had differed too much for Harper Sibley's "friendly spirit" to impress the White House. By one swift maneuver President Roosevelt stripped the Chamber of its right to speak for U. S. Business. Before the Chambermen had time to pack their grips, safely seated in the Executive Offices was another body of businessmen, pledging almost unqualified support to the New Deal. That body was the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file...
Twosomes--Lynford Lardner, Jr. 37(H) defeated Berry (W), 1 up; Mansfield Brannigan '36 (H) defeated Schwab (W) 3 and 1; Robert C. Hunter, Jr. '36 (H) defeated Porter (W) 3 and 2; William E. Sibley, III, '35 (II) defeated Dodge (W) 3 and 2; Swan (W) defeated George E. Enos '37 (H) 1 up; Charles S. Bellows '37 (H) defeated Huston...
Foursomes--Berry and Schwab (W) defeated Lardner and Brannigan (H) 1 up; Hunter and Sibley (H) defeated Por- ter and Dodge (W), 2 and 1; Enos and Bellows (H) defeated Swan and Huston...