The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-07
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

SAFE management.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Dispatch to The Reformer.) !
Copyright 1921.
WASHINGTON, June ALBERT ID. |
Iasker of Chicago has accepted the chair |
maRship of the L. S. shipping board. |
President Harding first offered the place |
to Mr.. Lasker a fortnight ago. but the |
latter came to Washington and urged the
President to appoint Walter &. Teagle, |
president Of the Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey. MIR. Lasker believed that Teagle
knew more about ships and the particular
problems of the government than anyone
else, and was even willing to- act rs an
assistant to Mr.. Teagle in order to per
suade the latter to take the job. The
President yielded to Mr.. Lasker's advice
and made a final effort to get Mr.. Teagle
, f.ve..yt hing was arranged satisfactorily
iNvhen the man who was to take over MIR.
! TeagIe's work i'm the Standard Oil Co.
suddenly became Ill and the doctors adj
viSed a prolonged trip to Europe Mr..
Tcagle could not therefore leave his work.
and declined the position. Mr.. Harding
consequently fell back on Albert LaSker.
and insisted that the latter accept as
that he did not know a thing about ships.
/ but the President was of the opinion that
! Technical assistance could be- procured so
! Hong a. the man at the head of the ship
ping board was an organizer and a bust
1 ness man. AIR. Laskcr is president and
owner of the Lord x Thomas Advertis-
ling Agency. but is one of the principal
owners in many big business enterprises.
| He is a part-owner Of the Mitchell Car
1 Co. Quaker Oats. Van Camps. the Chi
ego Baseball club and several other com
/ panieS. He is the author Of the famous
4: Laskrr Plan. by which the warfare in
baseball which developed last winter was
! finally settled. Ii was Lasker who first
suggested Judge Lands rs the arbiter Of
] baseball disputes and. he has the happy
faculty of being able to settle tangled
problems without much fuss or feather.
Throughout the last three wears Mr.
/ I.aSker has stood beside WIN Hays-a
sort of man behind the gun. His advice
and judgment. which won him millions of
dollars of reward in the business world
were turned to politics lie made several
trips around the country with Will Hays
when TIE latter first started out to win
congress for the Republicans early in
i 1918. lie was Il staunch supporter of
Hiram Johnson for president and is said
to have financed the latters campaign at
i Chicago. After the convention. however.
/ LaSker, alongside of Hays. continued his
work for Republican success and was the
genius of the Republican advertising and
publicity campaign last summer. In this
work he frequently came in contact with
President Harding, and won the latter's
esteem and affection.
Mr.. Lasker is prominent in Illinois
lpoliticS and is one of the principal sup
porterS of Senator Mccormick As a
business man his greatest faculty is quick
decision and penetrating Judgment. MANY
/ q bIu bllSInpSS has "a him
/ advice. 1t is said that at the age of -
LaSker was earning 81 900 a week for the
personal service he was rendering AZ a
business advisor. Unusually alert and
keen. President Harding wants the Iasker
Iencrgy turned on to the shipping problem.
The job 'ahead is one Of liquidation
iwithOut sacrifice 20 the interests Of the
government 1t is task of selling ships
and Salyaging rs much as possible of the
: proceeds for the government. Mr.
, Lasker is n Shrewd negotiator and pos
, SeSSed of 4 loyalty which makes President
! turn oyer the whole shipping question to
/ the new chairman without further worry
Thr tales of graft and irregularity IN
/ the shipping situation have come to the
! ears of the President. who has felt that
SOmeone who wasn't tied up with the ship
lpng interests would have detached
: viewpoint and serve the government bet
, tier than one who was engaged in tn,
: operation of ships
!, Mr.. I.asker is member of the Ameri
. lean Jewish committee. the first Of hi,
J trace to be summoned to a high place il
: the Harding administration. He has Seer
tactive in politics about three years. but
in the short time has come to be reeog
!. lnized aS an asset to the party-a driving
= lfOrce and genius for organization. q mar
lwho is destined To climb bigger some day
:, Tin the Harding administration when thu
! job of selling ships is ended
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