Retirements

>As it comes to all U. S. Steel Corp. employes at three score and ten, retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman John Gephart Munson, one of President Benjamin Fairless' new order of hardheaded operating men who believe in placating labor.

>Aging and ailing is H. (for Hiram) Edward Manville Sr., son of co-founder Charles B. Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. Since 1927 when control of the company passed into public hands and its management was given to professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks, no one by the name of Manville now has a titular post in the firm.

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