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Booth Tarkington published a novel last year called The Plutocrat. The hero was Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...