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...fierce competition from Sir Michael Nairn of Scotland whose family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum-Nairn is thought of as a Morgan company...
This lyric was personally composed by Commander Locker-Lampson, son of English poet Frederick Locker, maternal grandson of the late Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart., a Vermonter, said to have been the first American ever made a British baronet. The music for Commander Locker-Lampson's patriotic song March On! is from the British Gaumont talking film High Treason...
...Peerages and baronetcies are hereditary, knighthoods die with the holder. A baronet bears the title "Sir" by right. A knight is "Sir" by courtesy. In ascending order of rank, peers (members of the House of Lords) are barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, dukes...
...Buyers. So long and so spectacularly has Sir Joseph Duveen, baronet, been in the public prints* that many people forget the existence of his brothers four- Ernest, Edward, Benjamin, Charles. Charles Duveen left the firm of Duveen Bros, years ago to start a New York furniture shop of his own under the name of Charles of London. Sir Joseph's son-in-law, Armand Lowengard manages the Paris branch. But though Ernest, Edward and Benjamin are partners in the company, actively engaged in its traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers...
...Author. Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he is tall, pale, has thin lips, restless hands; unassailable socially, he delights in flouting convention. The English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other...