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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...
...Merchant Marine Act 1920) the Emergency Fleet Corporation is still responsible to the Shipping Board. But as a matter of fact, ever since President Coolidge appointed Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, U. S. N., to be Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (TIME, Jan. 14, 1924), the latter has operated the fleet without little reference to the Shipping Board, its legal superior And Admiral Palmer, "dictator", has commended himself to the President by harkening to the voice of economy. (He has, for example, cut down the fleet from...
...attempted exploration of the Polar Sea by air, (TIME, June 22 et sec.) Their work had been of a kind which, if the prophets are right, will be rated by future generations-if not with the exploits of Columbus and Magellan- certainly with those of Hinton (Atlantic-crossing aeronaut), Leigh, Wade and Nelson (globe-fliers) and Eckener (Atlantic crossing dirigible pilot...
...tied-up steel ships for scrapping. While the offer was out, at President Coolidge's urging, the Board agreed that henceforward the disposal of Government ships should be in the hands of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The reason was that the Corporation, headed by one man (Admiral Leigh C. Palmer), was in a better situation to conduct negotiations decisively and effectively than the Board, with several members. The Board merely reserved the right to pass on the offers for ships which Admiral Palmer recommended for acceptance...