Word: directorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk and Havre, Hamburg, and Bremen, which calls for five 16-knot steamships. The Roosevelt Line is thus a young man's company, and the accession of Commodore Astor emphasizes this feature. His directorship certainly means added re sources for the Roosevelt Line in its bidding for the Baltimore-Hamburg mail contract, and may well mean that a substantial part of the Astor fortune is to be devoted to building up the American merchant marine...