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...Manhattan carried President Roosevelt's premier Braintruster. smooth, positive Professor Raymond Moley. and slashing, impulsive Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime Executive Editor of Manhattan's defunct World. Fourteen years ago red-headed dynamic Journalist Swope attended the Paris Peace Conference as a mere correspondent. Last week, out of a job but rich because of a stock market killing in 1929, he sailed as "special adviser" to Professor Moley, took along as his own private secretary Son Herbert Bayard...
...been an instructor at a girls' college. . . . Today . . . as he sails for Europe, ensconced in the royal suite, reporters besiege him for a word, while Kings. Ambassadors, Prime Ministers, Premiers and publicists . . . anxiously await his arrival . . . accompanied by one of the greatest showmen in the world [Adviser Swope] . . . . He is an unobtrusive, quiet person, pleasant, but not particularly impressive, and certainly not brilliant." Nevertheless, the world so needed Statesman Moley that when his ship reached Cobh, Ireland an airplane was waiting to fly him to London. But Statesman Moley sailed on to Plymouth and there entrained for a Conference...
...began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric President Gerard Swope; Chairman Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago's Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kirstein, vice president of Filene's, Boston department store; Austin Finch, president of Thomasville (N. C.) Chair Co., chairman of the Southern Manufacturer's Association's committee already at work in connection with the recovery...
...prosecutor's evidence against Charles Edwin Mitchell, charged with defrauding the Government of income tax payments, was virtually completed in Manhattan last week. Biggest witness of the week was Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., who as a director of National City heard Mitchell intimate that National City Co. should reimburse him for private losses he sustained when he bolstered the price of the bank stock. Since Mitchell's chief loss was through the alleged sale of stock to his wife and the repurchase of it later at the same price (though the market value had fallen...
Died. Theodore F. Shuey, 88, dean of official reporters in the U. S. Senate; after a six-week illness; at Swope, Va. He joined the Senate staff at the age of 23, recorded the induction of every Vice President since Schuyler Colfax (1869), never missed a working day in 65 years. Friendly to most Senators, he edited and rewrote many a turgid declamation before entering it in the Congressional Record. To honor him, Senators ceased talking for one minute last week...