Business: Rockefeller v. Stewart

Rockefeller vs Stewart

Twelve rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28, Feb. 4), the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and board-chairman, respectively, of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, continued last week as follows:

Round 13. Mr. Rockefeller Jr., meticulous, in Egypt, engaged Charles Evans Hughes as special counsel to handle any legal knots which may arise at the stockholders' meeting in Whiting, Ind., on March 7.

Round 14. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., aroused, in Ormond Beach, Fla., issued his first...

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