Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly half a century. His father made him responsible for loans in the Mellon bank while he was still in his 'teens. Before he was 30, he was charged with administering his father's whole considerable estate. Thereafter he ruled and expanded an industrial empire constructed of steel, railways, oil, coal, electricity, insurance, ships, bridges, plate glass, aluminum. In 1920, this empire of Mellonia was dominant in a sphere of industries with some...
First: Its chairman is without doubt the best known Board Chairman in the U. S. Had a U. S. man-in-the-Street been called upon a year ago to name the chairman of any great U. S. corporation, he would most probably have snapped back "Gary?U. S. Steel." This year, not quite so quickly, he would name "Owen D. Young?General Electric...
...Loan Association of Boston. And one of its Directors, George Fisher Baker Jr. 51, is the only man in the U. S. who sits on the Boards of four of the country's eleven billion-dollar corporations. His are General Electric, General Motors, A. T. & T., U. S. Steel. In that bridge-like respect he is the most potent U.S. financier...
...father, George Fisher Baker, sits on three billion-dollar boards?A.T.&T. New York Central, U. S. Steel. His father's close financial associate, Myron Charles Taylor, is also on three, New York Central, U. S. Steel, Atchison Topeka & Santa...
...newly-enacted Alien Property bill (War claims), was replaced as board chairman by Joseph Holton Defrees, Chicago lawyer. The four vice presidents are: President Alfred J. Brosseau of Mack Trucks (Manhattan), President Robert R. Ellis of the Hessig-Ellis Drug Co. (Memphis), President Robert Patterson Lamont of American Steel Foundries (Chicago), Vice President Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific Co. (San Francisco...