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...plus common stocks of great utility systems, giving United $150,000,000 in assets. They installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became a Morgan partner. Howard's best known contemporary in the Morrow schoolroom was his close friend, modest Floyd Bostwick Odium, with whom he collaborated in founding Atlas Corp., top-flight investment trust...
...flew from Wisconsin to speak an informal funeral oration) ; Indiana's onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich; Madame Secretary of Labor Perkins; Mrs. Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Writers Stuart Chase, John Gunther and Louis Adamic, Editor Freda Kirchwey of the Nation; Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher, one time President of the New York City Bar Association; Banker John Hertz Sr. of Lehman Bros.; President Samuel Zemurray of United Fruit ; President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp., monster investment trust in which Alex Gumberg was a sort of minister without portfolio...
...through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher and the late great Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow...
...sides unmercifully. He had a positive distaste for money. Once a friend deposited $1,000,000 to his account, told him to keep what he could make with it. Having a million worried Alex Gumberg so much that he finally gave it back. Of Alex Gumberg, Judge Thacher said last week...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...