Business: Personnel: Jan. 21, 1935

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Even more athletic than big, brawny President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange is tanned, wiry President E. Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he...

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