Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
When, last January, the U. S. Shipping Board announced bids for ships of the United States and the American Merchant Lines, highest bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman, who is head of P. W. Chapman. Inc., of Chicago and Manhattan and whom anyone but a newsman can interview at any time. After a wrangle with die-hard government-owning Senators, the Chapman bid was accepted. Last week the Shipping Board opened bids on ships of the American Diamond and the America France Lines, which operate freighters between U. S. and French, Dutch and Belgian ports. Again Bidder Chapman was high...
Last week Automan Henry Ford got the League of Nations into a predicament and Merchant Edward A. Filene got it out again...
...first time far-sighted Merchant Filene had helped the League. He has outstanding another $25,000 offer to the Labor Office's Scientific Management Institute, conditional upon the Rockefeller Institute's donating a like amount. And the International Labor Conference which last week opened at Geneva is using a telephonic translation system for which Mr. Filene paid. This translation system is a device which records speeches in six languages, thus enabling most of the delegates to follow proceedings without the delay of interpreters...
...ardent supporter of the American Merchant Marine I noticed with considerable anxiety your publication of a statement attributed to Robert Dollar, in which he stated that his boats are, and always have been, successfully operating sans liquor...