Word: cuno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most potent though not soonest to walk the plank would be famed Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor (Prime Minister) of the German Republic during 1922-23, and present Chairman of the rapidly expanding and resurgent Hamburg-Amerikas-Linie which has obsorbed the Kosmos, Stinnes and German-Australian lines thus bringing its tonnage up to 850,000, as against...
...Hampshire, Eng., under the chairmanship of onetime (1921-22) Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Home. Present to discuss Anglo-German industrial problems in secretive round table fashion were some of the foremost financiers of Britain and Germany: President Evan Williams of the British Mine Owners Association; former Chancellor Cuno, Chairman of the Hamburg-American Line; Sir Hugo Hirst, Chairman of the British General Electric Co.; Dr. Sorge, a director of Krupp...
...time until certain of buying U. S. Shipping Board vessels at "reasonable" prices. (The Leviathan may be bought for $10,000,000, all the others for $27,000,000-TIME, July 19). United American Line. Averrell Harriman closed the sale of his Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Wilhelm Cuno's Hamburg-American Line last week. He wished to sell last spring (TIME, Mar. 15). The boats have been too expensive to operate; have brought a good price (over $8,000,000). The money might buy Shipping Board boats...
...master play. He created a contract with the Hamburg-American Line so that for 20 years his United American Line would represent the German company in the U. S. They would represent his company in Germany. German shipping had sunk to a pitiful low of 672,671 tons. Wilhelm Cuno, onetime head of the German line, was busy in Germany's muddled politics. The contract was profitable for both parties...
...Herr Cuno eventually returned to his business affairs. German officials at Hamburg and other ports grew less affable to the U. S. agents. Yet they dared not hint their wish to abrogate that contract. At the same time Mr. Harriman was noting the low earnings of transatlantic carriage. Now it seems, from the sale of these three ships, that the Hamburg-American Line is to go more on its own, that Harriman will concentrate more on his coastwise shipping, mayhap resume his railroad activities. (He is a director of the Union Pacific, of the Illinois Central, besides being chairman...