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Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...
...front row. Beside him sat his New York lawyer, Daniel Florence Cohalan. Promptly Mr. Cohalan protested that Mr. Shearer should be called first to the stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report. He had no authority beyond that. We were to pay a third of the agreed amount of $25,000 for his compensation and expenses...
First of the shipbuilders summoned was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) ; next Norman R. Parker, secretary and treasurer of American Brown Boveri Co.; then Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; then S. W. Wakeman, vice president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. No "tramps in purple and fine linen" are these, no "millionaires in rags...
That was clear enough. No one had any doubt that "a naval expert" was William B. Shearer and "three shipbuilding corporations" were Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., American Brown Boveri Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., whom Mr. Shearer has sued for a balance of $257,655 on a claim of $308,885 for propaganda services (TIME, Sept...
...suit was "without merit." Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News Co. which built the cruiser Houston also launched last week, said that his company had never employed "Shearer or any one else to oppose disarmament." Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) said the suit was "wholly unsupported by the facts...