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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...
...declared the structure, if made higher, would be economically unsound because of increased approaches. The Army's specifications, it said, would add $25,000,000 to a cost that already rose close to $200,000.000. But the Army insisted on 200 ft. clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria, which otherwise could not get above 57th Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth...
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...
Europa 5 clays . . Berengaria 6 days Bremen 5 days . . Aqnitania 6 days Mauretania 5 days . . Olympic 6 clays Leviathan 5 ½ days . . Paris 6 days Majestic 5 l½ days . . L'oluinbi/s 6 clays France 6 days . . Re du France 6 days...
...proof of bonafide pumping, plus a life-membership fee of $5. Some of the members: the late Myron T. Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...