Word: a100
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumor that Mr. Tinker represented William Fox, attempting to buy control of his company again, were scouted. Of his friendship with Mr. Clarke there was no doubt and it was thought that he represented a compromise between putting a100% Chaseman in the presidency or leaving Mr. Clarke as president. Banker Tinker is familiar with Fox's set-up through his position at Interstate, for the investment trust bought many Fox and General Theatres Equipment securities. Although it is odd for a cinema company not to have a cineman as either chairman or president, observers pointed out that...
...inclined to treat the matter as one of expediency purely." This was exactly the way the leaders of all three of Britain's parties treated the issue last week. As a matter of expediency, David Lloyd George came out for neither free trade nor protection in a100-minute speech before the annual conference of his free trade Liberal party at Torquay...