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Ernest Tener Weir, board chairman of National Steel Corp...
What slim, ascetic Dr. Sigmund Freud is to Psychoanalysis, bald, beefy Major Clifford Hugh Douglas is to Social Credit. The Major, a Scottish engineer, a graduate of Cambridge and a cousin of Lord Weir, once worked for Westinghouse in India, now has his swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them...
Actually the only wiseman from Weirton was Mr. Weir. National Steel was merger of Steelman Weir's Weirton Steel (which lacked adequate ore reserves), Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. (which had them) and Great Lakes Steel, whose plants were right at the back door of the automobile industry. Mr. Weir's fellow wisemen were George Humphrey of M. A. Hanna, who is now National Steel's executive committee chairman, and George R. Fink of Great Lakes Steel,, who is now National's president...
...prospered through amazing management and strategic plant location, plus the fact that a large part of its output goes into tin cans and automobiles-both steady customers, good years & bad. And it will get more than its share of future prosperity. But U. S. Steel, whose presidency Ernest Tener Weir reportedly refused, can make much more money in a single year than the sum of National Steel's assets...
National Steel Corp. Chairman Ernest T. Weir...