Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alison Skipworth as the social commission merchant and Harry Gold as the Jewish orchestra leader and romance mender give particularly able characterizations, while Gene Raymond as the in-human lever hits a new low. In spite of his assertion that he is "four years older than you are and knows all about life" we have to believe his other gem that "I have never played with anything except a violin...
Henry Herbermann did not remain a truckman for long. For some $60.000 he bought and became president of Export Steamship Corp., which operates between New York and the Mediterranean. When after the War the Federal Government set out to restore the U. S. merchant marine to its oldtime glory by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, Exporter Herbermann got the first mail contract. His subsequent activities were aired last year before the Senate committee investigating air and ocean mail contracts. Discoveries: 1) the Shipping Board spent $1,825,000 to repair 18 ships which it sold bolt...
Engaged. Charles Henry George Howard, Earl of Suffolk, 28, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Levi Leiter; and Dancer Mimi Crawford (Mimi Forde Pigott), niece of Robert Chalmers, First Baron of Northiam, onetime Governor of Ceylon...
...name was Arthur Stephen Lane and he stood 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighed 196 Ib. Eldest child of an Arlington commission merchant who has four other sons, six daughters, he has had to work for part of his college expenses. At Phillips Exeter he was senior class president, student council chairman, football captain and All-New England tackle. He started his career at Princeton by being elected class president, captain of the freshman football and hockey teams. Each year since then his classmates have re-elected him their president. A broken collar bone laid him up for most...
...official announcement of the union by his Majesty's Government of these two great North Atlantic shipping companies. For the time being the couple will be known as Cunard-White Star, Ltd., may later become British National Services. In the last five years British pride in the merchant marine has been roughly handled. Cunard's Mauretania, commissioned in 1907, is still the fastest British ship but her old records have been broken by Germany's Bremen and Europa, Italy's Conte dl Savoia and Rex. White Star's flagship Majestic is still the biggest ship...