Rome, Sept. 25.
The British and French reaction to Signor Mussolint's appeal to terminate the European hostilities is considered discouraging in Fascist US. Steel Magnate, Financier Dies New York, Sept. 1 'Mr. Charles Michael Schwab steel magnate and financier who gumed a Jarge share of the. Allies' munitions contracts in the World War, died fo day al the age of 77 from coronary thrombosis.
"The career of Mr. Schwab was an example of the "American Success Story."
Beginning as a grocery clerk, the tow-headed country boy rose to the position that gave him the title "king Of stech" At 39 he was president of the US. Steel Corp. an organization that ushered in a new era in Ameri gan. industrial life. Known as. the "Perennial optimist," it~ was only late in life that Mr. Schwab restrain ed his confident utterances.
Born in Williamsburg, Pa., Feb. 18, 1962, "Mr. Schwab moved "to the nearby village of Loretta when he was five, While attending St. Frances College he drove a stage for his stable father, who was proprietor of a livery
1880 he was made general superintendent of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, and in 1692, general superintendent of Edgar Thomson and Homestead. Here his skill as a mediator and diplomat following the Homestead strike put him in line for the presidency of the company. circles.
Signor Virginia Gayda, writing in the "Voce dfitalia," states that if this chance is not' taken, "a storm over Central "Europe.
Mr, Schwab refused the offer, saying he could not do his. best, under other people. A. day or two later Mr. Carnegie made the 35-year-old executive president of the Carnegie Steel Company.
And then came the biggest "deal Mr, Schwab ever made. New York and Chicago financiers tad been trying to. break the grip. of the shrewd ttle Mr. Carnegie, but had been thwarted at every turn-
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