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Colby M. Chester, Class of 1900, President and then Chairman of the General Foods Corporation, stands with five prominent businessmen before meeting with President Roosevelt.

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Big business men talk with Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. Five of the nation's outstanding business men conferred today with the president at the White House, they are shown just before entering the White House, they are, left to right:

Colby Chester, Chairman of the Board of the National Manufacturers Assoc.;Ernest P. Weir, President of the National Steel Corp; Lewis Brown, President of the Johns-Manville Co.; Alfred P. Sloan, Chairman of the Board of General Motors; and M.W. Clement, Pres. of the Pennsylvania R.R., 1/11/38.

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General Foods, Class of 1900, Corporate, Xerography, Copy, Entrepreneur, Lewis Brown, Ernest P. Weir, Alfred P. Sloan, M.W. Clement, General Motors, White House

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