Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...longer credits from the Government. What the Government did was to cry out for other deep water financiers to lend a hand. Some $2,500,000 was needed and was not forthcoming: not, that is, without bringing new men into the management of U. S. Lines. Chairman O'Connor, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Hutchinson Ingham Cone, also of the Shipping Board, journeyed...
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...
...President Hoover's motorcade to the Rapidan entered the news a second time last week when a big bus cut in behind the President's car near Fairfax. Three of the four Hoovercade cars finally got around it. The last car, driven by Frank Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, started to go around at 50 m. p. h. when a rear wheel skidded and the bus sent Connor's machine spinning over & over into the ditch. Connor's wife broke her collarbone, suffered other injuries. Her husband got off with bruises. ¶Despite...
...base hits--Herlihy, O'Connor, Three-base hit--Donaldson. Home run--Herlihy. Sacrifice hit--Anderson. Stolen base Ketchum. Struck out--by Gilligan 13, by Taylor 6. Bases on balls--off Gilligan 4. off Taylor 1. Double play--Herlihy and O'Donnell. Umpire--Berry. Time of game...