Personnel

Last week the following were news:

Lester Armour, 35, grandson of Philip Danforth Armour, resigned his directorship and vice-presidency of Armour & Co. Only Armour remaining in the organization is Grandson Philip Danforth Armour III, 36.

Edwin Sibley Webster, co-founder of Stone & Webster, Inc., resigned as president, became vice chairman of the Board. He was succeeded by George O. Muhlfeld, previously vice president.

Hale Holden, chairman of the executive committee of Southern Pacific Co. was elected a director of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Harold Fowler McCormick Jr., nephew of the board chairman of International Harvester Co., was made Northwest district manager for the company. He has been working up-from-the-bottom since 1921.

Alfred Clarke Bedford, son & namesake of the late chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, was made president of Colonial Beacon Oil Co., Jersey subsidiary. Previously he was vice president of Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana, also a Jersey subsidiary.

Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago, was elected a director of Southern Pacific Co.

Robert Winship Woodruff, 41, president of Coco-Cola Co. and White Motor Co., resigned the latter position, became chairman. New White president is Ashton G. Bean, previously president of Bishop & Babcock, Cleveland manufacturers of bottlers' and soda fountain machinery.

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