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...president and sole owner is Henry Herbermann, 55, a hard, dark chunk of a man who began life as a tough waterfront youngster in Pennsylvania R. R.'s Jersey City yards, rose to be chief clerk, went into the trucking business, moved a whole German U-boat into Manhattan's Central Park for Liberty Loan speeches, bought up the shipless Export company in 1920 for $65,000. His friends now include Egyptian royalty, from whose stables he has acquired fine Arabian horseflesh (see cut). An older, even more valuable friend, with whom for years he has played poker...
Campbell Bascom Slemp had hardly left the White House as Calvin Coolidge's secretary when Mr. Herbermann snapped up his professional services to help Export Steamship buy some freighters from the Shipping Board. The Government was asking $8.50 per ton. Export Steamship offered $5. Fixer Slemp got 18 of them for his client for $7.50 per ton-a total of $1,071,431. He sent the company a bill for $50,000. Mr. Herbermann settled...
...Henry Herbermann, president of American Export Lines, came a pair of Royal Arabs, Leila II and Ibn Nava, mare & stallion from the stables of Ahmed Fuad, King of Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Cordova, Darfur...