Personnel

Last week the following were news:

Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, already a director of National Biscuit, took a seat on the board of Seaboard Oil.

William DeWitt Mitchell, outgoing U. S. Attorney General, onetime St. Paul law partner of Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler, became senior member of the law firm of Mitchell, Taylor, Capron & Marsh in Manhattan.

Walter Folger Brown, outgoing U. S. Postmaster General, recently appointed receiver of Willys-Overland, was made chairman and active head of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (Hudson Tubes, connecting Manhattan with New Jersey).

Robert Fresnel Loree, younger son of Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree, was elected a director of New York Central R. R. Ever since his smallish Delaware & Hudson bought a 10%, interest in Central (TIME, Feb. 6), Father Loree has been seeking a place at Central's council table. But the I. C. C., wary of interlocking directorates, has taken no action on his application. Impatient to have his $10,000,000 investment represented, he nominated his son, no railroader and hence not subject to the I. C. C. Son Robert Loree is a vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. in charge of the foreign department.

S. Bayard Colgate was elected president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. He rushed from Manhattan to Chicago to take command. Colgate Co. was ruled till a few years ago by five brothers (Sidney Morse, Austen, Richard, Gilbert and Russell--all now dead except Russell), grandsons of William Colgate who founded the company in 1806. In 1928 they sold out to Palmolive-Peet. After the merger Sidney Morse Colgate was chairman of the new company till his death in 1930, but the old family's influence passed into the background. S. Bayard, son of Sidney, though handicapped by ill health, ably captained Roy Chapman Andrews' motor transport on its first venture into the Gobi Desert. Since his father's death he has managed the family interest in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Quiet, clear-headed Bayard Colgate, now only 34, has again obtained control--which the Colgate family has not had since 1928--will try to right his great-grandfather's tilted monument.

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