American Decades
Deaths
Warren Bechtel, 60, railroad builder and construction magnate, helped build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Boulder Dam, 28 August 1933.
Hernand Behn, 53, capitalist, founder of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, 7 October 1933.
Robert Somers Brookings, 71, Saint Louis woodenware merchant and philanthropist, generous contributor to Washington University, founder of the Brookings Institution, 15 November 1932.
James A. Campbell, 79, steel manufacturer, president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, third largest in the United States, 20 September 1933.
Howard Earle Coffin, 64, automobile engineer and industrialist, organized the Hudson Motor Car Company, chairman of the Aircraft Board during World War I, 21 November 1937.
William Sloane Coffin, 54, New York furniture maker and real estate magnate, 16 December 1933.
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1930's Business and the Economy
