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Eight hundred and seventeen first cabin passengers, 450 second, and 450 third-paying about $500,000 in fares -sailed on the great liner. Among the more prominent were Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake...
...Said Mr. Lasker: "When we took the trial trip the Leviathan was not booked for 40% (for the present trip) . . . but after her return . . . hundreds of applicants were turned away at the offices of the United States Lines. . . . This is the first time in the history of shipping that a new boat has gone out loaded to capacity...
Albert D. Lasker hoped that the achievement would be some "return" to the President for his " constant interest and enthusiasm for America...
...number of Chicagoans, young and old fellow-townsmen of ex-Chairman Lasker and Chairman Farley. (For example, William Wrigley, Jr., Julius Rosenwald, K. L. Ames...
Emergency Fleet Corporation in pursuance of Mr. Lasker's previously outlined plan. (TIME, June...