Word: albright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profitable part of its fleets, last week to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. for $34,000,000. The late J. P. Morgan could find no Judge Gary for the shipping trust he planned in 1902, although he did get the ablest shipping executive on the Atlantic seaboard, Philip Albright Small Franklin, for president. Mr. Franklin has had many things to fight-foreign competition, inertia of U. S. shippers, a heavy $36,000,000 bonded indebtedness, most of all legislative handicaps. No other government regulates wages, conditions of work and contracts of its seamen as does...
Died. Henry Fleetwood Albright, 58, a director of the Western Electric Co., to which post he rose from that of office boy; in Manhattan...
Last week such hope dawned again. President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co. was on the high seas coming home to Manhattan from several weeks of negotiation with British interests for the sale of his White Star Line. He had virtually in his pocket some $36,500,000, and P. A. S. Franklin is not the man to let money lie idle or even to earn puny interest...
...Yellowstone. They found it stocked with shifty-eyed witnesses intent on the scalp of National Park Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
...surprised to find, in your Jan. 5 issue, an item captioned "Strayed," for the real story about the elk which leave Yellowstone Park in the winter and go outside the boundaries to feed was told to me by Superintendent Albright a few weeks ago when he was our guest here in Washington. The real feature of this story was that it was not "unpitying hunters" who slew them but the natives living outside the Park. Each hunter is allowed one elk. Mr. Albright said that men, women and chldren were firing into the herd and, after it was all over...