Business & Finance: Stewart Out, Childs Out

Rumor, last week, busied itself with the future of big Oilman Robert W. Stewart. He might, thought Rumor, merge brains, experience and personality with Horse & Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, either in the Sinclair Oil Co. or in a to-be-constructed oil combination. Colonel Stewart's future is discussable because his potent past was abruptly closed last week at Whiting, Indiana. There, in a public building, he presided with great cheer at the annual stockholders meeting of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, of which he was Chairman. Profits...

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