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...James and the better Manhattan clubs, and five men were selected to do the talking: Mr. Chester, Pennsylvania R. R.'s Martin W. Clement, Johns-Manville's Lewis H. Brown, General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir...
...Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, the moribund Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers had some 10,000 members and no important contracts. Working from a big modern office covering the entire 36th floor of Pittsburgh's Grant Building-a few floors above Ernest Tener Weir's anti-union National Steel Corp.-the S. W. O. C. has since then put on the most efficient organizing campaign in the history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated membership to 500,000 (according to its own claims...
...faces. Significantly, most of them had made their public names since 1929. Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman Thomas Wilson of Wilson & Co. and, curiously, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir. And for official leadership they hit upon another new face, Colby Mitchell Chester, who had not only grown to national stature during Depression but also brought a new and needed viewpoint to the N.A.M. council table-that of consumer industries. Unlike his N.A.M. predecessor, the late Clinton Lloyd Bardo, who built...
Head of the N.A.M. publicity committee is Steelman Ernest Weir, but the active publicity director is a onetime reporter named James P. Selvage, who works under the organization's paid and unpublicized Executive Vice President Walter Bertheau Weisenburger. Onetime managing editor of Samuel Clemens' old Hannibal (Mo.) Morning Journal, Mr. Weisen-burger went to N.A.M. from the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, where he was serving as paid head at the time Lindbergh flew to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis...
...start of this week the market gave itself a breathing spell, the list climbed a few points back up the ladder. Meanwhile from a prime U.S. capitalist came a remark reminiscent of Andrew Mellon's famed quip early in 1929 that "gentlemen prefer bonds." Said Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp.: "I think that the present situation can be made very serious unless people stock, look and listen...