Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aviator in the Argonne, he is credited with bringing down the last German plane of the War.) After the War he went back to Michigan and took his degree. In New York he took his first and only subordinate job, in the offices of P. W. Chapman & Co. Inc. Here he acquired experience in distributing securities. He married the daughter of a professor in Ann Arbor, took her to live in affluent Greenwich, Conn...
...became vice president in charge of Banker Chapman's New York office. He was just 32 in 1926 when he formed his own enterprise, G. L. Ohrstrom & Co. Inc. with his own offices in Wall Street. Now his organization has offices in every important trade center. He was responsible for important financing: the towering Bank of Manhattan Co. Building; Allerton Corporation (residential hotels for unattached ladies and gentlemen); and, biggest and most important, Tri-Utilities. With a strong face, a bold eye, an athletic demeanor (golf, horseback), young Banker Ohrstrom became a popular topic among Wall Street journalists...
...weeks ago Mr. Chapman's bid to keep his company failed to meet the specifications of the U. S. Shipping Board because he tried to dodge responsibility for S. S. Leviathan, the biggest money-loser (TIME, Aug. 24). Mr. Franklin hastened to point out that I. M. M.'s bid was the only proper one submitted. Chairman Thomas Ventry O'Connor of the Board took the matter to President Hoover. No doubt both were somewhat at a loss, for while Mr. Franklin complied with all conditions, Mr. Chapman offered more money. The Board, sympathetic with Mr. Chapman...
...under consideration his amended offer, raising the amount of cash offered from $3,000,000 to $3.500,000. The Board met, conferred four hours. Reporters waited anxiously to congratulate the winner of the bitter contest. When the doors finally opened a spokesman appeared, said neither the Franklin nor the Chapman-Dollar-Dawson bid was satisfactory; new conditions were to be prepared, new bids could be submitted by anyone interested. Astonished pressmen searched for Chairman O'Connor, found he had slipped out by a side door. Mr. Franklin's outburst had scored a major victory for his company...
With the bidding thus reopened, another contestant was expected to enter the fight. He is Joseph Edward Sheedy, smart vice president of U. S. Lines, the man who got Banker Chapman of Chicago into the shipping business, who has been running U. S. Lines for him for two years, and who now is on an indefinite leave of absence. But last week Steamship Row was inclined to bet on Shipper Franklin against all comers, especially if a means could be found to reconcile him and Banker Chapman by giving the latter a stock interest in a new company...