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With a few thousand well-chosen words Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General, disposed of the best laid plan of Messrs. Farley and Lasker, Chairman and ex-Chairman of the Shipping Board, for disposing of the Government's ships...
...plan, announced by Mr. Lasker before his retirement (TIME, June 18) and perfected by his successor, Mr. Farley, was for the creation of 18) and perfected by his successor, Emergency Fleet Corporation, which would operate the ships. By this means complete lines were to be built up, with trade names, goodwill, terminal facilities and all the advantages of complete business enterprises. It was proposed to sell the ships in time by the simple expedient of selling the stock of these corporations...
...Shipping Board, sitting in Washington, is still vainly trying to solve the problem of the Government's merchant fleet-" the disposal of a liability at a profit." Shipowners and operators object vociferously to the plan of Government operation (TIME, June 18) announced by Albert D. Lasker before his retirement as Chairman of the Shipping Board. The Board in turn is willing to accept none of the owners' and operators' counter proposals. A fragment of the solution was achieved, however, by two sales to private owners...
...Mischa Elman, Leon Kamenev, Albert D. Lasker and Pugilist Leonard were among 33 more who received scattered votes...
Despatches from Vienna indicate that the playing of Rubinstein (Poland) and Bogoljubow (Russia) was decidedly disappointing in the International Chess Tournament at Ostrau, Czecho-Slovakia. Emanuel Lasker (Germany) was the winner and has filed his challenge for a return match for the World's Championship with Jose Capablanca (Cuba...