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Rumored early last week was the startling suggestion that the Earl of Birkenhead, recently resigned as Secretary of State for India, would take over the editorship of Britannia, to which he has regularly contributed. Denial of this persistent report by Inveresk Ltd. was coupled with the announcement that "publication of Britannia will be continued under the direction of the present editor, Crawfurd Price...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Great Britain's retired Secretary of State for India, last week, was appointed a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of which Britain's Chemical Tycoon Baron Melchett is head. Director Lord Birkenhead will receive an annual salary of $10,000 plus one-half of one per cent of the profits. Last year this percentage would have represented more than $100,000, since I. C. I.'s profits were...
...less auspicious than this cash endorsement by leading advertisers** seemed the roster of Britannia's first three star contributors: Benito Mussolini, Arnold Bennett, the Earl of Birkenhead...
...Conferred the Most Exalted Order of The Star of India upon the Earl of Birkenhead, when he resigned as Secretary of State for India...
Lord Peel. Appointed to succeed Lord Birkenhead at the India Office, last week, was Lord Peel...