Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Questions Asked (By Anne Morrison Chapin; John Golden, producer) shows how a young patrician dipsomaniac (Ross Alexander) who boards a Staten Island ferry under the impression that it is a liner for Bermuda, achieves regeneration. On board, he prevents a young woman (Barbara Robbins), pregnant and unmarried, from tossing herself overboard. In the next scene he has married her and they are living in a penthouse with the young man's chatty but devoted mother (Spring Byington). Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle. Visits from...
Edsel Ford likewise told his story of what occurred just before the crash. On Feb. 13, 1933 Secretary Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motor) and Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, visited Detroit, asked the Fords to permit the freezing of $7,500,000 of their deposits in Union Guardian Trust Co., asked them to put up $5,000,000 capital for a new mortgage company which was to assist in getting a $49,000,000 loan for the Guardian from...
Hudson & Terraplane offer as optional equipment "Axleflex," President Roy Dikeman Chapin's answer to knee-action. The wheel-and-spring assembly is traditional but the axle is hinged in the centre by parallel bars, permitting each wheel to bounce independently. President Chapin is convinced that the public is more interested in performance than innovations. Since he returned to Hudson from Washington, where he was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce, President Chapin has sent Terraplanes into one hill-climbing contest after another, to hang up some 70 records. And he has pulled Hudson out of its deep, deep...
...Chapin got his start with the old Olds Motor Works about the time "Come, Away with Me, Lucille. In My Merry Oldsmobile" was a smash hit. But he soon left the merry Oldsmobile and ended up in Hudson in its infancy. He agrees with those engineers who believe that the place to begin streamlining is the rear, not the front of a car. And Hudsons and Terraplanes show his attention to rears, which this year are all strictly teardrop...
...years ago the prima donna had a dozen great impresarios. Last week General Motors, preparing for motor show festivities, called the roll of its past executives. Among them were William Crapo Durant, Henry Martyn Leland, Alexander Winton, John D. Maxwell, Ransom Eli Olds, Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin- impresarios...