Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side stood Philip Albright Small Franklin and his International Mercantile Marine combination. On the other side stood Paul Wadsworth Chapman, present head of U. S. Lines, now evidently aided by Pacific coast shippers headed by Robert Stanley Dollar. Optimistic Philip Franklin offered $3,000,000 in liquidation of existing indebtedness and otherwise complied with all the conditions laid down by the Board. Tenacious Mr. Chapman offered $3,170,900 but dodged the problem of operating the Leviathan, heaviest money-loser of the fleet. Let the Shipping Board take title to the Leviathan, suggested Mr. Chapman, and he would operate...
...major deals of U. S. shipping history, for on the block was no less a prize-or white elephant-than the U. S. Lines, proudest Atlantic fleet in the country. Discussions had been going on slowly for weeks, ever since mid-June when President Paul Wadsworth Chapman and the U. S. Lines' directors went to Washington to explain their troubles to Shipping Board Chairman Thomas Ventry O'Connor (TIME, June...
...Washington President Chapman had explained that there was no immediate crisis, but with the general decline in trade it might be hard for his company to meet certain future obligations...
Meanwhile Steamship Row buzzed with other possibilities. President Chapman continued conferences with Chairman O'Connor, continued talking of "an adjustment, rather than a sale" of the lines. Mr. Chapman wanted to be relieved of the expensive duty of operating the largest U. S. steamship, S. S. Leviathan, which is also his largest money loser. He wanted also to be rid of the George Washington, next most costly steamer of his fleet. The Government could then sell the Republic, he suggested, leaving him the America, President Roosevelt, President Harding, and the five ships of the American Merchant Line. Last week...
...again?" was what shipping men were asking about Joseph Edward Sheedy, executive vice president of U. S. Lines and onetime (1922-24) vice president in charge of operations of Emergency Fleet Corp. It was Sheedy who was credited two years ago with bringing successful Banker Chapman from Chicago into the marble corridors of No. 45 Broadway with his $16,000,000. Last week Mr. Sheedy said he was going to bid again, backed this time by nobody knew whom, but with a reported stake of $10,000,000. Rumor connected this fresh capital with Harvey C. Miller, tidewater terminal...