Word: chapmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, June 29 ct seq.) continued all last week. Chief developments were: 1) a hitherto untold chapter of U. S. shipping history; 2) an apparent shift of advantage between the dickerers, an advantage for President Philip Albright Small Franklin of Roosevelt- International Mercantile Marine Co. over President Paul Wadsworth Chapman of U. S. Lines and his new backers from the Pacific Coast, Robert Stanley Dollar and Kenneth Thomas Dawson...
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History, barred from further excavations in Mongolia by the Chinese Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities, stopped for a polo game at Peiping on his way home, fell off his pony, broke his collarbone...
From Mr. Dollar and from Kenneth D. Dawson, Seattle's potent shipmaster, the Chapman interests got assurance of fresh capital to salvage their enterprise by a private loan. The arrangement made to secure it was not made public...
...bonus of new common. The present unfortunate owners of U. S. Lines, Inc. preference stock are offered a share-for-share exchange of the new company's common; no provision at all was suggested for the U. S. Lines common stockholders. This stock is entirely owned by Mr. Chapman and a small group of friends. If the Franklin proposal should be accepted the equity of these men in the company would be wiped...
Admitted by the Shipping Board is the fact that Banker Chapman paid too much for the Lines in 1929. This will weigh with them during their conferences this week in Washington. The Franklin offer makes no effort to correct this, could not be expected to, but Steamship Row was betting that when the decision came, U. S. Lines, Inc., bulwarked by Pacific Dollars, would continue to operate the ships. In other harbors the U. S. merchant marine progressed with less difficulty last week...