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...announced by Chairman Albert D. Lasker of the Shipping Board that the Leviathan (formerly Vaterland) will leave New York for Southampton and Cherbourg on July 4. Not only will she make her first trip since receiving the $10,000,000 alterations which have equipped her for passenger service; she will go forth now as the largest vessel ever afloat. Hitherto the Majestic, a British ship (formerly the Bismarck) was the largest vessel, with a registered tonnage of 56,551 and a length of 915.5 feet. The Shipping Board announces, however, that on account of alterations on the Leviathan-chiefly because...
...must consider a liquidation plan for the Shipping Board. [Chairman A. D. Lasker will retire next June and is anxious to see the plan completed before that time...
...proposition of having a press agent, believing that it would not be approved by the country and that the director's functions would degenerate into propaganda rather than present the Administration's policies authoritatively. It is believed that the plan was originally broached by Mr. A. D. Lasker, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, who formerly was head of Lord and Thomas (advertising firm) in Chicago and had charge of Republican advertising during the 1920 national campaign...
...waiting. On board the Pioneer, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean, were President and Mrs. Harding and their friends. They had no time schedule to fill, and stopped daily wherever the President felt inclined to play golf. A foursome it was- usually with Mr. McLean, Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board, and Charles G. Dawes. Eighteen holes on the Ormond Beach Links, the same on the Sea Breeze course, twice around the nine hole links at Melbourne, the same at Rio Mar. At Hove Sound, the President missed a day's golfing because the course...
Hughes has been struggling with grippe, but keeping at his desk; Colonel Forbes of the Veterans' Bureau resigned because of his health; Secretaries Davis and Weeks, as well as Chairman Lasker are in the South, also getting a much-needed rest...