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...private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...
...drew their $15 day's pay, their 10? a mile travel allowance and their free souvenir fountain pens (for signing oaths and official certifications) were, besides numerous ward bosses, four women, such political war horses as one-time Ambassador James W. Gerard, one-time Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, Roosevelt Friend Frank C. Walker, such reigning Labor Union chiefs as Sidney Hillman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers), Joseph P. Ryan (International Longshoremen), Max Zaritsky (United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers), David Dubinsky (International Ladies' Garment Workers). Also present were Governor Lehman and the past President...
...General Electric buildings in Schenectady, N. Y. and 24 G. E. plants elsewhere in the U. S., President Gerard Swope posted notice that henceforth company wages will be adjusted periodically with changes in the cost of living. Following the Department of Labor's index, wages will be increased up to 10%, but will not be cut lower than they were Oct. 1. To cover the last six months' rise in living costs, G. E. last week granted a 2 raise...
...director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks, the period gradually lengthening to three weeks. Discoverer was not Dr. Shapley but another able member of the Harvard staff: Miss Henrietta Hill Swope, 33, daughter of General Electric's President Gerard Swope...
Thomas S. Lamont, Morgan partner and Harvard graduate, will take part in the discussion at the Banking Table. Herbert Bayward Swope, prominent journalist, author, and public servant, will preside at the final banquet. Louis Domeratzky of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, will take part in the discussion at the Foreign Trade Table...