Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Broken. Between Henry Breckinridge, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War and Miss Bessie McKeldin, stepdaughter of Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer...
...Attorney General Sargent called at the White House by request to discuss the President's legal authority in the Shipping Board struggle (see SHIPPING) with Mr. Coolidge and Admiral Leigh C. Palmer. The President let it be known that he felt that the Shipping Board had disregarded the proprieties in naming Elmer E. Crowley head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation without consulting...
...Government's management of its merchant marine was last week again subordinated to a quarrel among the managers. The Shipping Board mounted its rostrum and announced the removal of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer as Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the appointment of Elmer E. Crowley of Massachusetts as his successor. Admiral Palmer was offered a subordinate post and declined it. His exit was followed by the exit of a number of his subordinates, some following him out of loyalty, others ousted by the Board "for the sake of efficiency...
Board's affairs transferred to his department, and the Board by majority vote transmitted a letter to the President intimating that Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, should be ousted and the Board left in complete control of the Government's merchant marine...
...That was a buster, that pen. I called it the Idea, after a horse I owned. Eugene Leigh, who brought that French horse over last year, trained him for me. . . When I had a place at No. 212 Broadway I sent President Garfield a pen like that. L. E. Waterman had a place a few doors down the street. I used to get my rubber from H. P. & E. Day up at Seymour, Conn. No one could make gutta percha like they could, on a big marble table, you know. Well, one time Mr. Day said he couldn...