Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Statesman Stimson sailed for home from Southampton aboard S. S. Leviathan. He had spent two full and profitable months of work and play in Europe. Landing in Italy, he had met Benito Mussolini for the first time, talked arms limitation (TIME. July 20). In Paris he had participated in the preliminaries to the London economic conference which he attended as a delegate (TiME. Aug. 3). He had been to Berlin, met President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Briining, departed advising them to "keep a stiff upper lip." At Rogart in Scotland he had rented a farmhouse on the Duke...
...weeks ago Mr. Chapman's bid to keep his company failed to meet the specifications of the U. S. Shipping Board because he tried to dodge responsibility for S. S. Leviathan, the biggest money-loser (TIME, Aug. 24). Mr. Franklin hastened to point out that I. M. M.'s bid was the only proper one submitted. Chairman Thomas Ventry O'Connor of the Board took the matter to President Hoover. No doubt both were somewhat at a loss, for while Mr. Franklin complied with all conditions, Mr. Chapman offered more money. The Board, sympathetic with Mr. Chapman...
...evidently aided by Pacific coast shippers headed by Robert Stanley Dollar. Optimistic Philip Franklin offered $3,000,000 in liquidation of existing indebtedness and otherwise complied with all the conditions laid down by the Board. Tenacious Mr. Chapman offered $3,170,900 but dodged the problem of operating the Leviathan, heaviest money-loser of the fleet. Let the Shipping Board take title to the Leviathan, suggested Mr. Chapman, and he would operate her at his expense on a minimum schedule of five trips a year for five years. Mr. Franklin was willing to keep this floating elephant and send...
Meanwhile Steamship Row buzzed with other possibilities. President Chapman continued conferences with Chairman O'Connor, continued talking of "an adjustment, rather than a sale" of the lines. Mr. Chapman wanted to be relieved of the expensive duty of operating the largest U. S. steamship, S. S. Leviathan, which is also his largest money loser. He wanted also to be rid of the George Washington, next most costly steamer of his fleet. The Government could then sell the Republic, he suggested, leaving him the America, President Roosevelt, President Harding, and the five ships of the American Merchant Line. Last week...
Later he met Paul Whiteman, sang with his orchestra on the Leviathan. When not singing he blew into a French horn that had no notes. He became a popular night club entertainer in Manhattan, then in London where his pudgy, unimpressive physique was an even less noticeable handicap than it had been in the U. S. Bored with night clubs, he made three talking pictures which attracted scant notice, met and married Barbara Bennett, went to Hollywood where he accomplished nothing except learning to ride a horse...