Word: shipman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first things that tall Charles Shipman Payson did after he graduated from Yale in 1921 was to marry Joan Whitney, daughter of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney and niece of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Harry Payne Whitney. One of the next things he did was to become interested in taking sugar syrups from Cuba to the U. S. Refined Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days...
...bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users...
...Edward N. Johnston and Robert C. Cutting, consulting engineers, last week brought suit for $500,000 against Refined Syrups, Inc., of which tall young Charles Shipman Payson, son-in-law of the late Payne Whitney, is a big stockholder. They told this story...
Lawful Larceny (RKO). Lowell Sherman directs and takes a lead role in Samuel Shipman's old drama of a wife's revenge. It is a problem play, the problem being whether a wife commits a crime when she goes to another woman's home, where her husband has been gambling away his substance, and brings his affec- tion and property home again. Full of theatrical cliches, Lawful Larceny is enlivened by the verbal improvisations and expansive mannerisms of Actor Lowell Sherman and by the skill of Director Lowell Sherman in giving Actor Sherman due opportunities. In spite...
Elected. Charles Kendall Gilbert, 51, "liberal" secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, sociologist; to succeed the late Herbert Shipman as diocese suffragan bishop. The result of the vote brought the diocesan convention to its feet with applause. Mrs. Gilbert watched from the organ gallery...