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Died. Richard Beatty Mellon, 75, financier, charitarian, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, younger brother of Andrew William Mellon; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Sons of canny old Thomas Mellon, young Richard and young Andrew took a lucrative flyer in lumber, skipped nimbly into their father's bank, which became Mellon National in 1902, today has resources of $236,000,000. They reached for oil, coal, aluminum, railroads, power, glass, made profits and plowed them back, built up an $8,000,000,000 empire. When Brother Andrew became Secretary of the Treasury, Richard took hold of both reins...
Last week became known the names of four lumber company executives who died of amebic dysentery following a trade convention in Chicago last June: President Wells Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., Boston; President Archie Mandert, Canadian General Lumber Co., Toronto; Sales Manager A. C. Long Jr., Great Southern Lumber Co., Bogalusa, La.; Mark Reed, Mill Co., Seattle...
...through no less than 60 industrial agreements affecting the work and wages of 11,000,000 people, NRA last week completed its four-month shakedown cruise. Result of the shakedown was a re-organization of NRA into five permanent branches: Extractive Industries (including motors and shipping); Construction & Machinery (including lumber and metal products); Chemicals, Leather & Other Manufactures; Trades. Services, Textiles & Clothing. Each now has its own administrator, who acts as a deputy to General Johnson. General Johnson personally takes over the fifth department: Compliance. Structure of the Compliance Board is based on 26 district officers of the Department of Commerce...
...smoke, kicking tear gas cans out of the way, hurling bricks and stones at the defending troopers. The mob gathered for a charge and 13 troopers went down under the impact, their captain knocked senseless. The mob battered down the first iron door with a beam taken from a lumber yard. Somebody opened a second door from the inside...
Nearly, but not quite, for besides being the biggest of all codes in point of persons affected, it involved consequences even more far-reaching, politically as well as economically, than the codes for basic coal, cotton, oil, steel, motors, lumber, leather, wool. It touched 1,000,000 stores, 5,000,000 employes and $30,000,000,000 of yearly trade by each & every U. S. citizen who can afford to buy so much as a pin. Upon it depended the Cost of Living...