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...getting on with oilmen; Eugene Meyer, millionaire publisher (Washington Post), ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernard Baruch's financial right hand on the War Industries Board, ex-chairman of RFC, "Butch" to his irreverent workers; and Roger Dearborn Lapharn, chairman of the board of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, organizer and vice president of the San Francisco Employers Council. From Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen's leader, Mr. Lapham won high praise during the 1936 maritime strike. Said Bridges: "If the employers as a group will exhibit the same...
...Story begins with the death of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), at one time the world's third richest man, overlord of mines and factories and steamship lines, boss of newspapers, news services and radio chains, possessor of a vast castle in Florida, a staggering agglomeration of art, two wives, millions of enemies. The MARCH OF TIME is running off rushes of its Kane biography in its projection room. But when they are shown, the editor does not think the facts reveal the man. "It might be any rich publisher-Pulitzer, Hearst or John Doe," he complains...
Meanwhile, on foreign fronts Göring's trust followed the troops. From the Austrian National Bank he got control of Louis Rothschild's holdings: Austria's leading automobile and former armament company (Steyr-Daimler-Puch A. G.), .the Danube steamship company, a railroad car factory. After a struggle, the Thyssen group coughed up Alpine Montangesell-schaft A. G., No.1 Austrian steel company. In exchange, the Thyssen group got shares in a synthetic oil plant. In charge of his Austrian properties Göring put Guido Schmidt, who as Austrian Foreign Minister had made reservations for Kurt...
...Maine, then went to sea. In a Boston fisherman he spent two years on the Grand Banks. For a few months he took fishing parties out of Gloucester on his own yacht, Vagrant, got his master's papers while he was working as a fireman aboard the steamship Florida between Miami and Havana...
...Government stood firm. Meanwhile, across the muddy estuary of the Plata, progressive Uruguay quietly passed The Great Dictator. Two big river boats were refitted to handle mobs of Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) who made the two-hour trip across the Plata to see the picture. One steamship company offered a special excursion, including a round trip over to the town of Colonia, dinner after the show. Some 100,000 Argentines were expected to see the picture in Uruguay...