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...host, Albert Davis Lasker, onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, took him to the Jockey Club races. As everyone knows, Indian-blooded Mr. Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz...
...forth behind his subordinates, surveying the entire field of action, and issues sealed orders on printed forms at half-day intervals. An electric clock rings a gong every 15 minutes, which is the equivalent of the half-day period. Mr. Geddes is one commander. Famed Chess-Player Edward Lasker is the other...
...Lord & Thomas & Logan's board chairman is another onetime head of the Shipping Board-Albert D. Lasker...
...discovery, by the investigating Senators, that Albert D. Lasker, opulent Chicago advertising man, intimate of President Harding's and onetime (1921-1923) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, gave $26,000 to the Harding campaign fund in 1920, $1,000 of which was recorded and $25,000 kept secret...
...Emmanuel Lasker...