Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Col. Charles Stewart Stobie, 86, oldtime Indian fighter; in Chicago. As "Mountain Charlie" he campaigned with William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and "Wild Bill" Hickok, later was adopted as a White Ute, retired to paint Indians. To his death he wore his hah long, carried a scar across his back, inflicted by Indians as he lay beleaguered in a buffalo wallow...
...Charles Stewart Mott leads all others by a margin so great as to stir the imagination. At the current market his 649,518 shares would be worth over $23,000,000, a vast sum for one man to have in one enterprise. Next in line come George Fisher Baker Jr. with over $6,000,000 worth of stock and Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. with $5,700,000. In most companies any man who owned over half a million shares of voting stock could be pointed out as a controlling factor, but not so in General Motors. The company...
...dory, his first cruising on his father's steam yacht. He graduated from Harvard in 1907, was admitted to the bar in New York five years later. As representative of the Rockefellers (his sister Abby married John Davison Rockefeller Jr.), he led the fight to oust Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. It was partly the family connection that made him head of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust. It is not probable that, like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark of the Rug-Bug tree...
Your correspondent, Mr. Stewart (p. 4 of Aug. 10 issue) displays what ve like to call a "British deficiency in humor," branding as unreasonable a plainly fantastic expression...
...JOHN S. STEWART...