Word: leviathan
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...Lecture Hall at 2 o'clock. C. J. Whiteside, head crew coach, H. H. Haines, Freshman coach; and Captain T. E. Armstrong '32 will talk. At 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon aspirants from the Class of 1935 will report to Weld Boat House for workouts in the Leviathan and in shells...
Connolly for Mason. A dapper little man with a lot of luggage walked across the gangplank of the Leviathan, Europe-bound. With the same proud little steps he had left the Hearst fold five days before. After the resignations of Col. William Franklin Knox from Hearst-papers' general managership and Editor Ray Long from Cosmopolitan Magazine (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.), Frank Earl Mason was the third major executive to leave the Hearst banner in eight months...
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...