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Fifty-three countries sent 817 delegates to a twelve-day conference at Portschach (southern Austria) to discuss The Place of the Boy in the Nations of the World. The official language, in the words of an Englishman, Basil Matthews, was " English, or perhaps I should rather say, American." The conference was deeply stirred by reports of boy labor under terrible conditions in the developing factory system of the Far East...
...Spanish Gold or Lalage's Trovers. Nor does the inimitable J. J. Meldon appear in it? though one of the principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers...
...Gaekwar of Baroda: " I am credited with being one of the twelve richest men in the world: Henry Ford, $550,000,000; John D. Rockefeller, $500,000,000; The Duke of Westminster, $150,000,000; myself, $125,000,000; Sir Basil Zaharoff, $100,000,000; Hugo Stinnes, $100,000,000; Baron H. Mitsui, $100,000,000; Baron K. Iwasaki, $100,000,000; T. B. Walker, perhaps less than...
...Basil is reported to be one of the richest men in Europe, his fortune being estimated at $100,000,000, but it is probably a good deal more than that. Although he was born in Alexandria of Greek and Russian parentage, he is a French citizen, living for a good part of each year in a magnificent chateau outside Paris. His French citizenship, however, does not deter him from accepting and using a British title. His apparent business is Continental sales agent for Vickers and other large munitions factories in Britain; beneath and beyond this no man knows the limit...
...savior of Monte Carlo: Sir Basil Zaharoff, French citizen, British baronet, munitions salesman...