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...phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric...
...expected that graduate students of track fame in other colleges will carry away many of the honors. J. L. Reid 2L, once intercollegiate cross country champion, intercollegiate two-mile champion and captain of the Harvard 1929 track team and Gerald Swope 2L, one-time captain and hurdle star of the Dartmouth track team will probably compete...
...says legend, in Captain Kidd's treasure; by the first John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Another oldtime furrier was one John Gottlieb Wendel, who retired about the same time as John Jacob Astor and who, like Astor, put his money into Manhattan realty. Last week died Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, next to last of seven grandchildren of John Wendel. Miss Ella Wendel, the surviving sister, remained sole owner of realty now worth something over $100,000,000. Since the Astor holdings are now split up among three heirs, Ella Wendel became Manhattan's land-richest individual...
...committed to the psychopathic ward at Bellevue and later pronounced insane by a sheriff's jury. After much maneuvering, legal and medical, Georgiana went back to live in the house. More successful was Rebecca's rebellion. In spite of Brother John's violent objections, she married Professor Luther A. Swope, who was related to the Vicar of Trinity Church. After that, Brother John dicouraged his sisters from going to church...
Another plan for unemployment relief was outlined last week by Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co. Its essence: when the company deems an "unemployment emergency" to have arisen in a plant, the employes of the plant pay 1% of their salaries into a fund, the company paying an equal amount. This fund is administered by an employe-company board, which pays to any employe who has been in the service of the company more than one year and who is laid off temporarily, half his weekly earnings?the total amount paid not to exceed $20 per week...