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...wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India, and now is a great public utility tycoon-in short, from the Earl of Birkenhead, it was the gesture of a genius who would not truckle to vulgar respectability...
Last week this prodigal orator, statesman, financier landed in Manhattan. With him landed also Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, onetime (1924-1928) Secretary of State for War, Sir Harry Duncan McGowan and many another. But no affair of state took Lord Birkenhead to the U. S. Not as statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties...
Utilities, not chemicals, however, were Lord Birkenhead's major errand. Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., is a holding company for British light and power companies serving 95 cities in England and Scotland. Areas exclusively controlled comprise 9,300 square miles, including large manufacturing centres in the neighborhood of London, and with a population of more than 2,000,000. As electric service is increasing at double the rate in corresponding U. S. cities and towns, prosperous is Greater London & Counties Trust...
...advertised trade mark of an Empire gasoline called "British Petrol." Also "B. P." is what Boy Scouts the world over call their jovial, snowy-whiskered Chief Scout, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell. Last week the 50,000 Scouts who have been attending an international "jamboree" (Scoutese for convention) at Birkenhead, England (TIME, Aug. 12) broke camp and prepared to disperse to their homes in 50 nations with a message from...
...soft, wet soil of Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, where Scout tents had been bogged for a fortnight, Baron† Baden-Powell buried what he soon described as a golden hatchet. Next he handed round golden arrows, one to each national Scout leader. Finally beloved "B. P." cried in his rich, booming bass voice...