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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the mystery ended when Mr. Shearer, to collect a pay claim, filed suit in Manhattan against his alleged employers?Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding Co., American Brown-Bovari Corp. From these shipbuilders, Lobbyist Shearer said, he had received $51,230. He claimed they still owed him $257,655 for professional services. He had, he stated, been hired to prepare literature, information, data, to write articles, to interview public officials and press representatives, to make speeches in behalf of U. S. shipbuilding from 1926 to 1929. The dullest Congressman could see the connection: Big Navy?more cruisers; more...
Business men hastened to speculate on reasons for the new combination. Most obvious seemed the desire to bring new financial power into United Cigar Co. and Tobacco Products Corp., whose earnings were depressed as a result of price lowering of popular brand cigarets to compete with price-cutting chain stores. From a high this year of 27 3/8, United Cigar stock had dropped last week to 15 5/8. Likewise Tobacco Products Corp. experienced a drop, from the year's high of 22 5/8 to a closing last week...
Died. John Bennett Daniel, 29, of Manhattan, National Broadcasting Co. announcer, introducer of many a famed speaker (President Hoover and Coolidge), describer of many a famed event (Lindbergh reception, Graf Zeppelin arrivals at Lakehurst, inaugurations); in Manhattan...
Died. Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, 83, of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass., longtime art editor for Houghton Mifflin Co. (book publishers); in Manhattan. Mr. Scudder was an original member of the Oneida Football Club, first in the U. S., which played its first game on Boston Common in 1862* and was never beaten, never scored upon...
...Lindberghs had remembered that, decided to return the courtesy. City Editor Bergener ordered another newsman to telephone the Cutter house. Amused, Col. Lindbergh answered, confirmed, amplified. Flying from Cleveland to Detroit, Col. Lindbergh furnished many another newspaper with good "copy" by visiting President Alvan Macauley of Packard Motor Co., trying out one of the new Diesel-powered Packard airplanes, driving a Packard speed car round a concrete track at 112 m.p.h...