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...become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...
...little naturalized Armenian "Pepper King," had fine friends in high places. Broadly hinted was a British "Stavisky" scandal. Names of Cabinet and Parliament members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world...
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 27--United States yachtsmen made it two straight triumphs today in their team match series with the Scottish six-meter best sailors for the British-American...
Thus of the 10-cent cigarette manufacturers the largest is owned 100 per cent by the British-American Tobacco Company, with offices in London, which in turn is owned about 33 1-3 per cent by The British Imperial Tobacco Company, and the remainder is scattered throughout the world, instead of being, therefore, a small independent unit trying to help the American Treasury get along, the chief proponent of the new tax idea is controlled and owned by a foreign concern...
Yesterday the British-American treaty on the waterway was brought before the United States Senate. Political observers prophesied a long battle between Eastern and middle-western interests, with a new card in the hands of the latter through the Civil Works Administration's role in national improvements. But the longest, the most influential, and the most decided of the attacks on the treaty came from Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Mr. Lewis said that the waterway would give Great Britain an important wedge into our boundaries, and that the United States could not afford this wedge at a time...