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Before the rage of Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso, he fled to France in a monk's cassock. Later he made peace with the crown and nearly won himself a title through elaborate gifts to charity. Juan March bulwarked his tobacco fortune with banks, newspapers, a steamship line, and after the revolution won himself immunity from arrest by a seat in the Cortes...
...serious danger to his own vessel, crew or passengers is involved. The lawyers sought to prove that it followed from these facts that the vessel's owners could also be held legally responsible-a point of law which has never been tested in court. Counsel for the steamship line argued that the case should be dismissed because the Federal Court had no jurisdiction and because the evidence was insufficient. He declared that the two men had mistaken the identity of the ship, had, in fact, never been sighted by the Conte Biancamano. Judge Patterson postponed decision until both sides...
Kermit Roosevelt, 44, able second son of the late great Theodore and founder-president of Roosevelt Steamship Co., was elected a director of Atlas Tack Corp. Elected at the same time was John Sargent, partner of President Roosevelt's eldest son James in the Lawson Insurance Agency of Boston...
...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...
Senator Black estimated that Export Steamship Corp., the first of 50 shipping companies on the committee's list for scrutiny, had received Federal subsidies and benefits worth $26,663,151 since 1928. Yet Export officials testified that their company was now "in worse condition" than in 1930, that it still owed the U. S. some $8,000,000 of which $1,200,000 was already past...