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...before, Counsel Burke had been playing golf with Lawyer Silas Strawn. Mr. Strawn's law partner Ralph Shaw had as his house guest New York's one-time Senator James Wadsworth. The name of Wadworth, too, was to be put before the convention for Vice Presidential consideration. There was also the chance that Vice Presidential lightning might flash over the Philippines and hit Theodore Roosevelt in Manila. It might also nip Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley as he sat in seclusion in Chicago and framed the river & harbor development plan for his party's platform...
...which U. S. Pippins and Baldwins could slip through the embargo if each shipment was accompanied by a special bill of health from U. S. sanitary inspectors. Also in Paris last week was none other than the President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, grey-haired Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, who has been at various times president of the U. S. Bar and Golf Associations. Lawyer Strawn was U. S. delegate to the Chinese tariff conference in Peiping, which accomplished nothing. Again last week in this latest French move against high U. S. tariffs, Lawyer Strawn could think...
When the president of a large company is made the chairman of another large company, merger rumors often spring up. But last week when Sewell Lee Avery, longtime head of United States Gypsum Co., succeeded Silas Hardy Strawn as chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co. there was no chance for such talk. Instead, the announcement was taken as pure proof of Mr. A very's business acumen...
Sewell Lee Avery, 57, US, Steel director, president of U, S, Gypsum Co., was made chairman of Montgomery Ward Co, succeeding Silas Hardy Strawn who became chairman of the executive committee...
Comment on the plan was guarded and not plentiful. Many a businessman and educator was for it: President Silas Hardy Strawn of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, who said the Chamber would have a similar scheme to announce this week; President William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R.; President Robert Isham Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce; President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University; President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. (of which President Swope is a graduate and trustee). An exception was Samuel Matthew Vauclain, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works. "I don't care...