American Shipping Subsidies
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. The inquiry into the payment of shipping subsidies was continued to-day. The investigation disclosed a letter, written in ID3O by the president of the Black Diamond Steamship Line, saying that he had ‘'been forced to play politics, which made me go as high as the President of tho United States. ” A former Assistant-Attorney General, Mr. Donovan, was counsel for the line in its bidding activities for a United States Shipping Board vessel, and received a fee of 100,000 dollars. Testimony was adduced that Donovan had got in touch with President Hoover.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7279, 5 October 1933, Page 10
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105American Shipping Subsidies Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7279, 5 October 1933, Page 10
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