Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to crop up in the news. At Hyde Park President Roosevelt issued an executive order which permitted cancellation of all government contracts with non-NRA manufacturers. In Manhattan Postmaster General Farley talked of prosecuting violators of NRA agreements under the postal fraud statute. In Washington Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that the Blue Eagle would get all his spending money. The boycott raised its menacing head when General Johnson inaugurated a "Buy Now" campaign with the buying to be done exclusively from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility company which claimed NRA exemption on the ground...
When Germany's two greatest shipping lines, North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American, were abruptly lumped together under Chancellor Adolf Hitler's "Maritime Adviser" Herr Emil Helfferich, the ousted former board chairmen of both lines revealed that "dissatisfaction in the outside world toward Germany" had sharply reduced their business (TIME, Aug. 1). Last week the German Government fought back against this blight on German shipping caused by the distaste of many travelers for anything remotely connected with Hitlerism...
...booking passage on a foreign ship. Since no trans-Atlantic passage can be bought for such a sum (except on a freight boat), this German order amounted to a boycott of U. S. and other foreign steamship companies serving Germany On the Berlin Stock Exchange shares of North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American bounded upward. "Maritime Adviser" Helfferich, board chairman of both lines, beamed, repeated his favorite slogan, "The spirit of Adolf Hitler is the best Nazi spirit! We will devote ourselves to fulfilling it." Meanwhile boycotted foreign shipping men devoted themselves to energetic protests. Both...
...contributions to world peace." Soon 900,000 U. S. Scouts could hear two of their fellows speaking from the Jamboree over an international hookup. Both had obeyed the injunctions of B.P. "I have made five foreign friends in the short time I have been here," reported Eagle Scout William Lloyd Smith, 17, of Newton, Mass. "Here we are making friends to last a lifetime!" cried Eagle Scout Joseph Summers, 16, of Jefferson City, Mo. ''The Fourth
...York Shipbuilding founders' shares soared from $2 to $20 a share this year, Lou Manning denied any open market operations. Chairman William Mowat Flook stepped down to vice chairman to make way for Mr. Cord and Lou Manning became chairman of the executive committee. Venerable President Clinton Lloyd Bardo stayed on to build the ships. Andrew William Mellon founded New York Shipbuilding in 1899 (see p. 47). Astute, he sold it out at the height of the Wartime shipbuilding boom. After the War when marine construction dwindled almost to nil, it branched into electrical equipment under license agreements with...