Personnel

Last week the following were news:

Ralph Isidor Straus, 29, assistant general manager of R. H. Macy, became secretary; his cousin Jack Isidor Straus, 33. secretary of R. H. Macy, became vice president; Ralph's father and Jack's uncle, Percy Selden Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy, became president; Ralph's uncle. Jack's father and Percy's brother, Jesse Isidor Straus, resigned as president to become U. S. Ambassador to France. Last week Percy's and Jesse's brother, Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, died of heart trouble (see p. 36) two days after resigning as treasurer.

Walter Scott McLucas, chairman of Commerce Trust Co. of Kansas City, member of the Federal Reserve Advisory Council, director of National Credit Corp., accepted the presidency of the new National Bank of Detroit.

Ogden Livingston Mills and Malcolm Pratt Aldrich were elected directors of Southern Pacific. Darius Ogden Mills (grandfather) served on the board 1900-07; Ogden Mills (father) 1906-29. Malcolm Pratt Aldrich (no kin to Winthrop Aldrich chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank) was Yale football captain in 1921, is a financial protege of Edward Stephen Harkness.

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