Word: cuno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asked the reason, President Tomlinson said: "Throughout the company we are carrying double or combining jobs wherever possible to save overhead. In this spirit the offices of chairman and president have been combined." Marius Boeger, vice chairman of Hamburg-American Line, was elected chairman, succeeding the late Dr. Wilhehn Cuno (TIME...
Died. Carl Joseph Wilhelm Cuno, 56, managing director of Hamburg-American Line; of heart attack from overwork; in Hamburg, where he was Rotary Club president. As German Chancellor for nine months (1922-23) Dr. Cuno deliberately inflated the mark in an effort to force a Reparations moratorium from the Allies. Succeeded as Chancellor by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Dr. Cuno rebuilt the Hamburg-American Line (stripped by the Allies down to 4.000 tons in 1918) up to its present 1.087,175 tons...
...being adhered to, he will rule the Conference with the same undisputed power that its captains have at sea. While the choice must be ratified at the Conference's meeting abroad next week, shippingmen felt there was little doubt that it will go through, less doubt that Wilhelm Cuno, onetime Chancellor of Germany and head of Hamburg-American Line, will grant Mr. Lederer leave of absence from his post as head of the passenger department...
...White House callers last week: Author Herbert George Wells (chaperoned by Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador); Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, onetime German Chancellor (chaperoned by Ambassador von Prittwitz und Gaffron...
...Cuno had just landed at Bremen with Herr Stimming from the crack ship of the latter's line, the Bremen, fastest in the world. On the dock the two men exchanged elaborate, guttural compliments, for Herr Stimming frequently crosses in Dr. Cuno's ships-the idea being that one eye on the enemy is worth two on oneself. Stepping briskly into Herr Stimming's office, the General Directors barked their joint statement at a bristle-haired male stenographer who neatly transcribed it thus...