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...Pittsburgh the name of Laughlin has a potency approaching that of Carnegie, Frick, Mellon. Pittsburgh's steel-minded burghers do homage to the firm name: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Last week, on recommendation of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed. President Hoover appointed bald, courtly Irwin Boyle Laughlin, long-time diplomat, as Ambassador to Spain...
After his graduation from Yale, Irwin Laughlin took a lowly job in the ancestral steel corporation. Ten years later he resigned as secretary of the company to embrace a diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house...
...Company, was elected chairman of the standing committee to nominate Overseers of Harvard College, Directors of the Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council. Four members of this committee were named at the same time: E. C. Felton, '79, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, former president of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Dr. E. H. Pool, '95, of New York City, surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, J. O. Proctor, Jr., '01, of Milton, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar of Boston and S. H. Wolcott, '03, of Boston, vice...
Charles Michael Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.. was Shearer's prize exhibit. Quizzed about Shearer on the stand last month, Mr. Schwab had said: "So far as I know I never saw him. ... I never heard of it [Shearer's employment by Bethlehem]." Now Shearer said: "I have met Mr. Schwab on a number of occasions. 'The Star of Bethlehem' himself was the first to suggest that his company might employ me." He said he had conversed with Mr. Schwab in November 1926, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan...
...quarter of a million passengers travel on it each month now, and factories ship a quarter of a million tons of goods by it monthly. With profits went further improvements. Last August employes with delight began burning all the company's wooden cars-because they had enough all steel rolling stock for their needs...