Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific Mail, smelling doom, called upon their Manhattan financiers, and especially upon their lawyer, one-time (1909-21) Senator George E. Chamberlain of Oregon. They did not have the cash resources of the Dollars and their friends, so put in a bid in larger figures but less cash?$1,350,000 per boat, about one-fifth in cash and the balance in 7% preferred stock in a holding company to be organized. They later offered to increase the cash payment to $1,500,000, proposed that the Government accept bonds at 4˝ for the balance. Their main object...
Finally, Senator Chamberlain went to court. Justice William Hitz of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia issued a temporary injunction forbidding the sale, gave the Dollar Company until Apr. 15 to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. The legal grounds for the injunction appear to be slight except for the general grounds of "public policy" used in the advocacy of the Pacific Mail...
Before Captain Robbie's white $ on its field of red can be sole consort of the stars and stripes on the Pacific, his son?and the Fleishhackers?must finish the battle. They have against them the legal talent of Senator Chamberlain, a hard fighter, the general reluctance of taxpayers to admit the necessity of selling $6,000,000 boats...
...conversion loan of $150,000,000 to leak into the City. Mr. Churchill cleared himself by stating that a permanent and non-partisan Treasury official had investigated the leak, found nothing. The House was mollified. ¶A Conservative, name omitted in cable despatches, asked Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain if any attempt had been made to collect the British debts repudiated by the Southern states of the U. S. after the Civil War.* CHAMBERLAIN...
...CHAMBERLAIN : "I hope my noble friend will apply her persuasive argu- ments to the Legislatures and Governors of those states. It is a fact, I see no prospect of making representations with any chance of success. The Government of the United States has no control over those states...