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...Ochs, Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California. Samuel H. Halle and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Richard Pickering Joy of Detroit...
Opening. The Brothers Van Sweringen, lately very much in the railroad news, will once more emerge into the limelight when they formally open this week (Saturday) their great new Union Station in Cleveland. Grouped around the imposing terminal tower (708 ft. high, tallest west of New York) are the new post office, a bank, and Builders' Exchange, all of them fronting on Public Square. The project cost more than many a complete railroad; between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000. The terminal itself cost $88,560,000 (the original estimate was $60,000,000). The Brothers Van Sweringen, however...
...civic luncheon was scheduled to begin the opening ceremonies. Newton D. Baker, who is personal counsel to the Van Sweringens, will preside. Speakers: Mayor John D. Marshall of Cleveland, President Patrick E. ("Pull Eighty Cars'") Crowley of New York Central, President W. L. Ross of Nickel Plate. The Brothers Van Sweringen will be present: the Brothers Taplin, in all probability, will not. The Taplins, inveterate Van Sweringen-baiters, as minority stockholders in the Wheeling, tried to hold up the building of the terminal, carried their case from court to court up to the U. S. Supreme Court, where they lost...
Resigned. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 51, Cleveland railroad tycoon, from all executive positions with railroads, except one directorship (Missouri Pacific...
...Sweringen Corp. Last week the Van Sweringen Brothers placed another stone on the pyramid of holding companies they are erecting. First came Chesapeake Corp. in 1927, taking control of the C. & O.; next (last year) Alleghany Corp. which is a general holding company for Van Sweringen railroad interests. Last week Van Sweringen Corp. was formed, and the public invited to buy $30,000,000 worth of notes in it. Although the new company's excellent charter gives it the power to do almost anything by the phrases: "buy, sell, trade in or hold stocks and securities or other property...