Word: dikeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget for the approaching season, faced a problem much like the Metropolitan's. In its 25 years, the Symphony raised $4,000,000 by passing the hat. Half the donations came from twelve old Detroit families, headed by such men as Senator James Couzens, Motorman Roy Dikeman Chapin, Banker Julius Haass, Milkman Jerome Remick-all dead today. A newer generation of motor manufacturers, which never had much time for music, or which was left out of cultural shindigs in the old days, now sits on its hands. The Symphony's current drive for funds brought $150 from Chrysler...
Married. Roy Dikeman Chapin Jr., son of the late Hudson Motors head and onetime Secretary of Commerce; to Ruth Mary Ruxton, of New York and Greenwich, Conn.; in Manhattan...
...Hall. By his election a Congressman for the first time became boss of Tammany. Expected was a shake-up of Democratic plans to recover control of New York City from Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who is up for re-election next fall (TIME, Aug. 2). Left, By Automan Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motors), onetime (1932-33) U. S. Secretary of Commerce; an estate of $7,311,616. After the deduction of minor bequests, one-third goes to his widow, Mrs. Inez Tiedeman Chapin, the other two-thirds to his six children-three hoys and three girls...
...President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known...
Hudson's Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin, onetime (1932-33) Secretary of Commerce, has been Topman in his company since 1910. He got into motors by way of photography. Hired by Ransom Eli Olds in 1901, he made all the pictures for the first Olds catalog. As Secretary of Commerce under Herbert Hoover, his premature predictions of Depression's end surprised automobile associates who had long admired him as an able man of business. But Politician Chapin was merely upholding the traditions of his office by breathing optimisms of which Automan Chapin would never have been guilty...