Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transaction, Tammany Hall manages to get a crooked finger into dock-leasing. Last week New Yorkers learned why travelers must go all the way to the Army base pier at the foot of 58th Street, Brooklyn, to sail on the fastest transatlantic vessels in the world-the North German Lloyd's Bremen and Europa* Strapping big Heinrich Schuengel, who is for N. G. L. what humorous little Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks is for Cunard- resident U. S. director-had a chance to air his grievance before Counsel Samuel Seabury's legislative committee on municipal scandals. Smaller Lloyd liners...
...hours. He had an audience with Mussolini, was photographed shaking hands with Il Duce proving he had been there (see cut). The late Sir Thomas Lipton took him racing on the Shamrock V and he watched King George's Britannia lose to them by a drifting length. Lloyd George drove him 45 miles to catch a train, in one hour flat...
...peerage in 1919 after he became Minister of Munitions. During the War he was Surveyor General of Supplies, directed the expenditure of over $2,400,000,000. His close friendship with Sir Thomas began in 1927 when he became chairman of Marconi Co. and a director of Lloyd's Bank. In his will Sir Thomas appointed him one of six trustees of his estate, estimated at $3,910,000. Lord Inverforth is now chairman of the trustees...
Ernst Glaessel, 53, head of Roland Line before it was merged with North German Lloyd, was elected chairman of the board of management of N. G. L., succeeding the late Dr. Carl J. Stimming...
Nobody was more pleased than Benjamin Lloyd Belt, oldtime, Virginia-born tobaccoman. In the business 40-odd years, he has been with Lorillard since it became independent in 1911, a result of American Tobacco Co.'s dissolution as a trust. In 1925 Lorillard got a thorough shaking up and Belt for president. When he took hold he found the company had everything except a popular cheap cigaret. Beech-Nut, Lorillard's first venture into the blended field, had failed. American Tobacco Co. had its Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers its Chesterfield, R. J. Reynolds its Camel. Fat and quick...