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...Shipping Board as an independent agency. Contrary to popular belief, this board was not a War creation. It came into being Sept. 7, 1916 as a means of building up a U. S. merchant fleet. When War did come, it established a subsidiary known as Emergency Fleet Corp. (later changed to Merchant Fleet Corp.) which built and operated ships of every description. During its life the Shipping Board and its subsidiary received $3,652,991,915.13 in appropriations, had a book value of $288,523,053 at last report. Fleet Corp. built 2,316 vessels, lost 70, scrapped 18, sold...
...that it had taken him 20 years to save. Recouping in part by sales of 'his book Caught Short, he described himself as ''not in the market but under it.'' Eddie Cantor's steepest losses were in Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., that fabulous creation of Waddill Catchings, loudest prophet of the New Era. Nathan S. Jonas, ousted head of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and Eddie Cantor's friend, neighbor and financial mentor, persuaded him to buy a huge block of Goldman, Sachs and put it away. For the next three years...
...political tradition the Labor portfolio since its creation in 1913 has gone to union men. President Wilson first appointed Pennsylvania's fat, florid William Bauchop Wilson, an oldtime walking delegate. President Harding put in Pennsylvania's stubby, back-slapping James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis who retained his card as an organized steel worker and spent much public time promoting the Loyal Order of Moose. President Hoover picked William Nuckles Doak, a heavy-handed member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...abolished. Said he: "The Legislature created the board solely with the desire to help the dairy farmers. . . . There is no use in continuing an agency at great cost to the taxpayers if it is not found to be helpful ... is fought by the very people who requested its creation...
...Bohemian Grove celebrated its "High Jinks." The 32nd annual play, The Legend of Hani, based on an Indian myth, was written by Playwright Julius Cravens, set to music by Henry Hadley, onetime conductor of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. It relates the efforts of the first man, Hani, after creation of the world by the Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, to subdue the other creatures of earth and find Tala, his predestined mate...