Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born in the U. S., educated in France, living in England, Author Sedgwick has a fine sense of the best elements in all three countries. In private life she is Mme. Basil de Selincourt, lives in England, tends her roses, sings Brahms and Haydn oratorios in the village choral society which her husband conducts...
...process of building the Panama Canal, symbolic of great labor, was painted by Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), famed Scandinavian-born U. S. artist.* Last week twelve of his paintings were purchased anonymously in Manhattan for presentation to the U. S. Military Academy in memory of the West Pointer who, as chief engineer, was most potent in channeling the isthmus-the late General George W. Goethals...
...exclusively. This plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich. So Sir Hugo, discovering himself to be an unpopular minority, postponed the issue, pending conferences with representatives of his U. S. shareholders, who own some 60% (nonvoting) of present British G. E. stock. It was for these conferences that Stockholders' Representatives Chadbourne and Swope came to London...
...advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry Worth Thornton (TIME, Jan. 28) has lifted Canadian National out of the annual deficit class. No deficit problem has Canadian Pacific. In 1928 it showed a net operating income of over $51,000,000 and net earnings of over $48,000,000. Its common stock earned $15 a share...
...recent and contemporary history of Canadian railroads is found in the careers of Canadian Pacific's Beatty and Canadian National's Thornton. Beatty was born a British citizen; Thornton became one (1916). Both have been honored by the British Crown. Beatty is a King's Counsel; Thornton a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire. Both played football, Beatty at University of Toronto; Thornton at University of Pennsylvania. Beatty was Canadian Pacific President at 41; Thornton president of the Canadian National Railroad at 41. Both came from railroad offices, not from railroad tracks. Beatty took over...