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...three engine-makers-Baldwin's dewlapped Samuel Matthews Vauclain, American's songwriting, politically prominent William Hartman Woodin (see p. 9) and smaller Lima Locomotive's Joel Stanley Coffin-saw the danger signals ahead in 1928. Each company sought other ways to make money. They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down...
SAMUEL M. VAUCLAIN...
...resources as fast as possible. A committee of 22 prominent men published an appeal in the newspapers pleading with the people to have faith in their banks. Among the appeal's signers were: Thomas Sovereign Gates, president of University of Pennsylvania; Dennis Cardinal Dougherty; Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive; General William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R.; Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis; Mayor Harry Mackey...
...this week; President William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R.; President Robert Isham Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce; President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University; President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. (of which President Swope is a graduate and trustee). An exception was Samuel Matthew Vauclain, board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works. "I don't care to comment on it," said he, "because I don't believe in it." In official circles the Swope Plan was viewed "with caution...
Originators and executors of the barter idea were two New York private bankers of the younger generation-William Henry Hamilton Jr. and his partner H. Charles Winans. Mr. Hamilton is Samuel Vauclain's widower son-in-law. Mr. Winans' wife is smart Novelist Katharine Brush (Glitter, Young Man of Manhattan). Both men used to be with Guaranty Trust Co. Partner Winans knew Brazil through having held a post there for White, Weld & Co. The idea of a direct barter between the U. S. and Brazilian Governments occurred to Banker Hamilton one evening last winter after a meeting...