Word: philbin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the game last week stepped a new player who, instead of saving up the express ace, played it as his first and only card. He was Philip Henry Philbin Jr., youthful, debonair son of a Colorado hotelman, who learned the aviation business as a $1-a-year assistant to President Harris ("Pop") Hanshue of Western Air Express, later headed Mid-Continent Air Express. Last week he announced Air Express Corp. ready to operate a daily 17 to 18-hr. service between New York and Los Angeles, exclusively for express. First flights...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...