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Note: A brilliant student and athlete at Western High in Washington, D.C., at 16 he was appointed to the USNA, Annapolis, from which he graduated in 1915, at the head of his class, class President, starting forward on the basketball team (2 yrs), starting shortstop on the baseball team (4 yrs.), Chairman of the Hop Committee, golf champion, etc. The Baltimore Sun referred to him as "probably the most verstile man ever to have attended the Academy. " In 1919 he left the Navy, worked for the U.S. Shipping Board in New York and then Washington (Asst. to Adm. Cohn). He left in 1929 to join Grace Line, a major American-flag cargo/passenger carrier between the West Coast of So. America and N.Y./San Fransisco. During WWII, as Vice President of Operations, he operated about 200 ships for the Government. He became President of Grace Line in 1945, Executive Vice President of W. R. Grace & Co., holding both positions until his death in January 1953.
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