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When U. S. Lines took over its fleet from the Government in 1929, President Paul Wadsworth Chapman outlined a building program on money borrowed from the Shipping Board under the Jones-White Act. The Manhattan was the first transatlantic passenger vessel built under the new program, the first built in the U. S. since 1897. A day less than one year after the keel was laid the vessel was launched, christened Manhattan by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt...
...When in 1927 he re placed Republican James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. in the Senate, the State soon discovered it had not suffered by the ex change. Chunky, genial, levelheaded. Senator Wagner has been pounding away at Unemployment Relief for two years. Said he last week: "The Administration has waited for some miracle to come about to absorb the unemployed and unemployment has risen to a total in excess of 10.000.000. What has Congress done? We have brought about no recovery in business by any action so far and it is clear that private industry is unable to take...
...roll call gave President Hoover 1,126½ votes. Wisconsin's Senator Elaine received 13; Coolidge, 4½; France, 4; Charles Gates Dawes, 1; New York's one-time Senator James Wadsworth, i; Absent...
...division of the national committee; Sarah Schuyler Butler was a New York delegate with her father Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler; even Ruth Hanna McCormick, born to politics, came as the bride of onetime Congressman Albert Gallatin Simms of New Mexico. Mesdames F. Trubee Davison, Walter Evans Edge, James Wadsworth, Bertrand Hollis Snell chiefly came to have...
...before, Counsel Burke had been playing golf with Lawyer Silas Strawn. Mr. Strawn's law partner Ralph Shaw had as his house guest New York's one-time Senator James Wadsworth. The name of Wadworth, too, was to be put before the convention for Vice Presidential consideration. There was also the chance that Vice Presidential lightning might flash over the Philippines and hit Theodore Roosevelt in Manila. It might also nip Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley as he sat in seclusion in Chicago and framed the river & harbor development plan for his party's platform...