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...rumored in Washington that when Albert D. Lasker retires from the Chairmanship of the United States Shipping Board, as he plans to do in the next few weeks, he will go into the newspaper business. It is said he will buy up a number of papers and become, in journalistic importance although not in type, another Munsey, Hearst or Scripps. Be that as it may, his departure from the Shipping Board is expected to mark the passing of the leading member of what is more or less openly called the President's Kitchen Cabinet...
...When Mr. Lasker became Chairman of the Shipping Board he made it understood that he would accept the appointment for two years only. That two years will expire on June...
Albert D. Lasker, Chairman of the Shipping Board, became quite excited and wrote a letter to Mayor Hylan of New York when he learned that the Government's great ship, Leviathan, might not be able to find a pier in Manhattan...
Reports from Washington state that Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board has handed to the President his resignation, to take effect July 5. This is the day after the Leviathan returns to the transatlantic passenger service which she left as the Vaterland...
...Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association offered to buy, for $300,000 cash, three 12,000 ton government vessels from the Shipping Board, guaranteeing to operate them immediately and to deposit an initial payment of $90,000 in escrow in a responsible bank. The offer was rejected by Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board on the ground that the bid was below the minimum selling price of $30 per deadweight ton fixed by the Board's policy. Mr. Lasker said he would consider the sale if the union would meet the minimum requirements...