Word: luckenbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, American-Hawaiian and Luckenbach Steamship companies, largest and most potent in the conference, indignantly withdrew. They hoped that the U. S. Maritime Commission, having failed to persuade intercoastal lines to regulate their own rates, would end throat-cutting for all time by exerting its power to fix minimum tariffs, which dates back in 1933 but has never been exercised...
GREAT NECK, N. Y.--Blonde Bubbles Luckenbach, until today the heiress-apparent of the vast Luckenbach steamship empire, was married this afternoon to 22-year-old Billy Dobbs...
...Maritime Transportation Department to fight the insurgent new National Maritime Union allied with C. I. O. Meantime the Labor Relations Board held hearings on a petition by Leader James Curran of the N. M. U. for an election on the I. M. M., Luckenbach and Black Diamond lines to determine whether he or Joe Ryan should rule the waves. First action took place in New York Harbor. Curran's seamen sat down on the Munson Liner Munargo until three A. F. of L. radio operators were replaced. This was followed by a similar attempt on the New York & Cuba...
...free Utopia. Aside from such wealthy men as Errett Cord, Caleb Bragg, Sam Harris and John J. Raskob, who became interested in Nevada mining before and during Inflation, the list of permanent newcomers included Major Max C. Fleischmann, director of Standard Brands, famed Santa Barbara sportsman; Lewis Luckenbach (steamships); Arthur K. Bourne (Singer sewing machines); the fourth Earl of Cowley, Christian Arthur Wellesley, who came for a divorce, stayed to marry and settle down with his favorite nightclub hat-check girl. When William Randolph Hearst threatened to move away from California's taxes, Reno wired him an invitation...
...Gladys Luckenbach; from her third husband, Lewis Luckenbach, onetime vice president of Luckenbach Steamship Co.: a suit for separate maintenance; in San Francisco. Grounds: cruelty, constant drunkenness. According to friends' testimony, Shipper Luckenbach drank only moderately, "about 15 cocktails daily...