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After a few years at his father's forge. Preserved Fish III shipped to the Pacific on a whaler, at 21 became its captain. Shrewd, he recognized a fortune lay in selling whale oil, not in getting it. He prospered as a merchant in New Bedford, had a political squabble, sold his property cheap, settled in New York. At the height of his business career he was one of the 28 brokers of the New York Exchange Board which later became the New York Stock Exchange. He controlled a potent shipping firm of Fish & Grinnell which had its beginnings...
...eleven times Governor of the Bank of England (TIME, May 4), continue to hold that helm? Mr. Norman was strangely in Canada just before the pound was taken off gold (TIME, Sept. 28). He returned secretively to London via Liverpool last week, slipping off the S. S. Duchess of Bedford on a special tender, dashing in a closed car to his train, commencing to dictate rapidly to a secretary before the train pulled...
Ever since 1897 the Province of Quebec has remained unflinchingly Liberal. Last year, however, the rest of Canada turned Conservative with a vengeance and swept Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett into power on a Canada-First platform tinted ever so delicately with anti-U. S. sentiment. Many Quebeckers voted for Bennett. Conservative tacticians decided that last week's provincial election was the moment to invade the province in earnest...
Unless Premier Richard Bedford Bennett backs down at the last moment, as few U.S. publishers think but all hope he will, on Sept. 1 Canada's new tariff schedule on U.S. periodicals will go into effect (TIME,June 15, et seq.). The duty on magazines with more than 20% advertising would be 2? a copy; on magazines with 30% advertising, 5? a copy. Unsold copies are included. Exempt would be educational, scientific, religious journals if they contain less than 20% advertising. Last week two periodicals took steps. They were Bernarr Macfadden's Love Story and Western Story. They...
...females and any bulls under ten years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe 59 known bison (protected through the European Bison Society). Most important European herd is the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn Abbey, England, where he has successfully crossbred the American and European strains. Next week Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Society sails to Europe to study the possibilities of a bison breeding park in Poland. If he finds the project feasible, his Society...