Word: connors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman O'Connor of the Shipping Board called and was closeted with President Coolidge. At a conference with reporters the President's spokesman denied that he was about to request Mr. O'Connor's resignation; also declared that if the League of Nations calls a Disarmament Conference the U. S. will not take part unless Congress so authorizes...
...more than $15,300,000 all told." Admiral Palmer took Director Lord's ultimatum philosophically. The Board itself, more volatile, was expected to be less resigned, more irate at the reduction. The form that the first protest of the Board took was a statement by Chairman O'Connor that, if General Lord's allowance were not increased, the Leviathan would probably have to retire from service...
...Club in London. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, was unable to attend on account of the death of his brother; President (Premier) William T. Cosgrave of the Free State was unable to be present; but Governor General "Tim" Healy of the Irish Free State, "Tay Pay" O'Connor (the only Irish Nationalist member of the House of Commons-known as "the Father of the House"), and the Duke of York, among others, were present...
...Connor simply said he had had audience with Henry Ford, from whom he had wrung a tentative offer to take 400 of the listless bottoms at something between $1 and $7 per ton (scrap price). At $3 per ton, the entire listless fleet of 5,700,000 tons would bring about $17,000,000. Mr. Ford would probably pay about half that for about half the fleet-all is quite vague. Mr. Ford thought he might use 30 or perhaps only 10 for commerce; the rest for junk...
Sixth Tongue. Emerged one of the professionals from the ship owners' meeting, declared that Mr. O'Connor's $20 would not enable U. S. firms to compete with other nations except Great Britain; would perpetuate the existing difference between wages paid on Government-built boats and those paid on other U. S. boats...