Word: cunarder
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...America's greatest monsieur, and so there are times when his awful name may not even be mentioned. One of those times was last week when details of Le Monsieur's embarkation were being arranged between 23 Wall St.* and the highest U. S. official of the Cunard Line. On that momentous morning some smart, insidious Frenchman must have gleaned among excited, thrilled Cunard employes his impression that the following telephone conversation took place...
...Cunard: "The gentleman's suite is in readiness. I suppose you wish the usual arrangement...
...last week there came from the Post Office Department an order withdrawing from the Berengaria, the Ansonia and the Andania, three Cunard Line vessels, all trans-Atlantic mail not specifically addressed to these three vessels. Immediately came protests. The Berengaria crosses the Atlantic in six days. Transfer of its mail to other, slower ships meant that such mail would take from three to six days longer in transit. The Post Office speedily reversed itself, rescinded the order, explained that it had been issued because it had been supposed that the Berengaria would be late in sailing. The rescinding order also...
Meanwhile the Post Office order was regarded in shipping circles as a thrust at the Cunard Line, which last fortnight (TIME. Jan. 7) began cutting into U. S. Lines, Havana trade by putting the 20,000-ton Caronia on the New York-to-Cuba route. Angry, the U. S. Shipping Board loaned its crack trans-Atlantic steamer, speed, the President Roosevelt, to the (U. S.) Ward Line, thus promised the Caronia the best competition that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound...
...remembered that the government of the U. S. has many departments, many activities, that Postmaster General New, for instance, would have no official reason to be grieved if every U. S. citizen went to Cuba on a British ship. Meanwhile, however, reports that the mail orders were reprisals against Cunarders persisted, named T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, as the probable source of the "discrimination." Mr. O'Connor is, of course, vitally concerned with the Cunard competition in the Havana tourist trade. Also, he has invited U. S. shipowners to attend a marine...