Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...established in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, of which Edward S. Harkness is president, are similar to the Rhodes Scholarships and were inaugurated in order to give British students an opportunity to study in America and to foster good will between the United States and Great Britain...
...Straus likes to commemorate festivals by gifts. On his 80th birthday last year (Jan. 31) he sent $100,000 to Jerusalem's Zionist leaders. His name is inevitably associated with milk. He has established milk stations throughout the U. S., conducted pasteurization campaigns in the U. S., Palestine, Great Britain, France...
...climax of Tel Aviv's celebration was a parade of the city's native-born children. The first manchild, now 20, proudly presented a bouquet to the city's first and only Mayor, Meyer Diezengoff. Great Britain was represented by Maj. J. E. F. Campbell, District Commissioner of Southern Palestine, who made his speech in fluent Hebrew...
British G.E.-U.S.G.E. No direct connection has existed between Gerard Swope's U. S. General Electric Co. and Sir Hugo Hirst's British General Electric Co.. Ltd., onetime (TIME, April 1, et seq.) prominent exponent of the Britain-for-the-British financial theory. Last week, however, such a connection was rumored in the report that British G. E. contemplated merging with Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., largest British makers of electrical equipment. Inasmuch as Associated Electrical Industries is about one-third owned by International Electric Co., and as this latter corporation is a subsidiary of U. S. General Electric...
...prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France and 8% to Switzerland. Sole check to cartel plans was the failure to bring Britain's chemical industry into the cartel structure, but cartel leaders trust that they will eventually be able to overcome the British tradition of individualism which has thus far made the United Kingdom a conspicuous exception to the prevailing cartel trend...