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...found on the list. Democrat Joseph Tumulty and the wife of Democrat Jouett Shouse made small headlines as silver owners but neither the onetime secretary to Woodrow Wilson nor the wife of the onetime party manager could be called insiders with the silver bloc. Notable catches were Errett Lobban Cord, member of the Committee for the Nation, owning 1,651,000 oz.; Frank A. Vanderlip Jr., son of another member, owning 300,000 oz.; Amy Collins, treasurer of the Radio League of the Little Flower, mouthpiece for ardent Silverite Father Coughlin, 500,000 oz.; A. Atwater Kent, radio tycoon...
Loudest whistles of all came from the crowd when the bids of American Air Lines' inscrutable Errett Lobban Cord were read off. On the set-up presented by Mr. Farley, Errett Cord had been expected to underbid the field, capture a virtual monopoly of U. S. airmail. Instead, he bid so close to the maximum on eight routes, that he was heavily underbid on all but the Newark-Boston run. He stood to lose even his old southern transcontinental route, having overbid his nearest competitor for half the run by 10?. Obviously fear of Cord competition had caused other...
...Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Sillirrmn Evans, whose name has frequently been linked with Errett Lobban Cord's because of his onetime position as vice president of American Airways, resigned last week to become vice president of Maryland Casualty...
...contracts, only one would, without firing its best men and reorganizing, be clearly eligible for new contracts,* and that one line was the line that had had the always unprofitable southern transcontinental route. That line was American Airways, controlled by that ambitious, trouble-brewing newcomer to aviation, Errett Lobban Cord. "General" Farley reconsidered and opened not only the southern route but a new northern transcontinental route to the bidding. But these bids were to be opened one week later than the rest, offering possible consolation prizes to any bidder unsuccessful in the first auction. Again the old-line companies thought...
...Williamsport. Pa., his Lycoming Manufacturing Co. said to be the largest motor-builders in the world; in Wayne, Mich., his Stinson Aircraft Corp.. biggest U. S. builders of cabin airplanes; in Cleveland his Smith Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.; and in Auburn, Ind., the great automobile plant where Errett Lobban Cord ten years ago got a toehold on Success...