Business & Finance: Brothers v. Brothers

Visitors to Room No. 1881 of Cleveland's Union Trust Building, offices of Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co., were last week greeted by Patrolmen Jeremiah Smith and Ignatius Reschke and Sergeant Rudolph Maralowitz. The police guard represented (through the medium of an injunction) the interests of Cleveland's famed and potent Van Sweringen brothers. They were stationed, too, for the purpose of foiling, baffling and frustrating the interests of Cleveland's less famed but also potent Taplin brothers. For between the Van Sweringens and the Taplins exists a long-standing...

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