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...followed, by only a few years, public honors. In 1931, on the 50th anniversary of Insull's arrival in the U. S., Owen Young, John Barton Payne, Charles Gates Dawes, Reginald McKenna (chairman of Britain's Midland Bank), Charles Steele (Morgan partner), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance). Gerard Swope and James A. Farrell sent tributes to the English-born immigrant who had achieved great things in his adopted country. But even then Sam Insull's pedestal of fame and fortune was tottering. His trouble dated back to 1928 when Capitalist Cyrus Eaton of Cleveland, through Continental Shares...
Slumped in a heap lay Lee Flacy, deputy sheriff, pumped full of buckshot. To his bride of a fortnight went news of her widowhood by radio: "A shooting at 5824 Swope Parkway-Lee Flacy killed...
Last week General Electric's President Gerard Swope, author of many an industrial plan for social betterment, announced a prospective profit-sharing program for General Electric's 50,000 workers. For the past 17 years ending in 1932, 30,000 workers have received a 5% bonus. Hereafter each & every General Electric employe will share up to 12½% of the company's earnings available for common stock after 8% of its book value is deducted. Before the plan can become effective G. E. must earn 83? a share on common stock. Last year it earned...
...intentions but by law-Section 7 (a) of the Industrial Recovery Act requiring employers to bargain with their employes collectively. 2) It had a new personnel, a National Labor Board composed of five (recently increased to six) representatives each of Labor and Industry, including such potent figures as Gerard Swope, William Green, Pierre S. du Pont, John L. Lewis. And, biggest difference of all. it was captained by a stocky, barrel-chested, German-born, Tammany-raised Senator from New York, Robert Ferdinand Wagner. Last week Senator Wagner knew full well what he was facing. In the first six months...
...success in 1924. Prior to the opening of They Knew What They Wanted, Playwright Howard, to be on the safe side, got a $50-a-week job on the New York World. He was supposed to start work the day after the opening. He was still abed when Editor Swope telephoned: "I see by the morning papers you don't need a job. You're fired." They Knew What They Wanted won the Pulitzer Prize, and established Sidney Howard as one of the half dozen ablest playwrights...