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...Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Captain Martin E. Trench, visited Camden, N. J. There officials of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation met him on the bridge of a new battleship, formally turned the ship over to the Government. Captain Trench signed a receipt and read an order from the Secretary of the Navy commissioning the Colorado as a battleship of the U. S. Navy. The colors were hoisted and Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap took command. A new fighter had been added to the U. S. fleet...
Should you contemplate participating in the funeral services of the late President, which I should greatly appreciate, upon the receipt of an expression of your wishes you will, of course, be duly apprised of the arrangements...
Before President Harding sailed for Alaska from Tacoma he announced the receipt of a letter from the Iron and Steel Institute. It was signed by the directors of that body, including Elbert H. Gary, Charles M. Schwab, James A. Farrell, E. G. Grace and others. The letter accepted in principle the abolition of the twelve-hour day, and promised that the change from the two-shift to the three-shift system would be brought about as soon as there was a sufficient surplus of labor...
...receipt by the New York Stock Exchange of an application from the Stutz Motor Car Co. of America to have its 263,000 shares restored to trading on its floor brings vivid memories of the circumstances in 1920 under which Stutz was " stricken from the list" of the Exchange. After a decline in motor shares in February, 1920, Allan A. Ryan cornered the Stutz stock. Its price rose swiftly to 391 on March 31, 1921, when the Exchange authorities, having ascertained the existence of the " corner," suspended dealings in it there. After various conferences between Mr. Ryan and the Exchange...
...George T. Harding, the President's father: "I celebrated my 79th birthday by hitching up my sorrel mare and driving to the offices of The Marion Star, where I received congratulations. Later I gave my receipt for good health: 'Eat rye bread and oatmeal; they keep the arteries clean.' From my distinguished son I received a sum of money...