Word: dikeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposes of a corporate marriage Hudson can offer an established low-price model, Terraplane. Hudson also has Roy Dikeman Chapin (54), one of its founders, and one of the Industry's few shoe-string pioneers who are still relatively young. Roy Chapin did not look so young after serving a half-year as Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce but since he returned to Detroit he has slowed Hudson's headlong flight into...
Edsel Ford likewise told his story of what occurred just before the crash. On Feb. 13, 1933 Secretary Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motor) and Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, visited Detroit, asked the Fords to permit the freezing of $7,500,000 of their deposits in Union Guardian Trust Co., asked them to put up $5,000,000 capital for a new mortgage company which was to assist in getting a $49,000,000 loan for the Guardian from...
Hudson & Terraplane offer as optional equipment "Axleflex," President Roy Dikeman Chapin's answer to knee-action. The wheel-and-spring assembly is traditional but the axle is hinged in the centre by parallel bars, permitting each wheel to bounce independently. President Chapin is convinced that the public is more interested in performance than innovations. Since he returned to Hudson from Washington, where he was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce, President Chapin has sent Terraplanes into one hill-climbing contest after another, to hang up some 70 records. And he has pulled Hudson out of its deep, deep...
Secretary of Commerce Roy Dikeman Chapin was "capable, likeable-a business man." Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde "had a horror of short-selling of stocks which Wall Street couldn't quite share, but he made his contributions to the achievements of the Administration." Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was "quick-acting, a good fellow. He has not been found guilty of any crime in connection with the Moose. His successor [the late William Nuckles Doak] was of a little higher type, I think...
...Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough. You'd better change your tune. Good...