Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...
Thus, melodiously, did the Ward Line christen the ships of the profitable Havana trade. Year after year, they have plied comfortably and euphoniously between Cuba and New York, carrying many a lodge brother, Greek-letter man, Pan-American conferee and others to whom Havana has offered, since 1919, increasingly attractive facilities for convivial conventions...
...bound list was abruptly added, last week, the President Roosevelt. Alphabetically, the new ship fitted in between the Orizaba and the San Jacinto. Actually, it at once became the unofficial flagship of the Ward Line fleet, featured in every advertisement as offering "expedited service (fastest ever known) between New York and Havana...
...Lines. Its transfer to another service could only be justified by the existence of an emergency in U. S. shipping. That such an emergency did exist was the theme, last week, of energetic statements from the U. S. Shipping Board and the leaders of the New York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead, she had paused in New York only long enough to take aboard a capacity passenger list for the first...
Incorporated last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a wireless company, capitalized at $25,000,000, now ready to fulfill the stern conditions laid down by the Commission. The company must establish communications between no cities. Fifteen transmitting stations (in 15 cities) must be ready by Dec. 31, 1929, and two each month thereafter until...