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Last week the following were news:

During the War Jack Dempsey got into trouble by posing as a riveter in a shipyard. The labor manager of Sun Ship-building Co. dressed him in overalls, snapped his picture to use in a campaign to recruit labor. When the public saw the photograph it concluded that Boxer Dempsey had really become a riveter to escape the draft. Last week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter. Five years ago Tunney married Polly Lauder, Carnegie Steel heiress. Last week he was elected a director of New York Shipbuilding Corp., controlled by Motorman Errett Lobban Cord. Presumably he will represent the Lauder interests.

Paul Mellon, 26, only son of Andrew William Mellon, was elected a director of Gulf Oil Corp., succeeding his uncle, the late Richard Beatty Mellon.

Laurance Hearne Armour, grandnephew of Philip Danforth Armour who founded Armour & Co., was elected president of Chicago's American National Bank & Trust Co., successor to Straus National Bank which was taken over and renamed last year by a group of Chicago businessmen. President Armour, grandson of Banker Andrew Watson Armour who settled in Kansas City, is a director of Armour & Co.

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