Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Squelches Briton. Chief event in Mexico last week was the settlement by bullnecked, square-jawed President Emilio Fortes Gil of a strike which has paralyzed for a fortnight the British-owned Mexicano Railway, vital link between Mexico City and the major Mexican port of Vera Cruz. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution approving the strike as fully in accord with the ideals and aspirations of the Grand Revolutionary Party. Police prevented British Manager J. D. W. Holmes of the Mexicano Railway from hiring strike breakers. Finally President Fortes Gil intervened and settled the strike by decreeing that...
...Largest British tin smelter is Williams, Harvey & Co., controlled by the Patino Mines and Enterprises, Consolidated (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Williams, Harvey & Co. joined with three other large British tin smelters in a provisional plan to form the largest tin smelting organization in the world. Behind the consolidation is seen the influence of Patino, the Anglo-Oriental tin interests, and the new Tin Producers' Association. From this merger which affects about half the world's tin supply, is expected to come the long-awaited stabilization of tin production and price, one of the purposes...
...Lost Patrol (British). There was material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence...
Michael meets Mary in the British Museum. She has been deserted by a bounder of a husband, is destitute, and consequently profits greatly by the loans which Michael persuades her to accept. Striving toward greater respectability than the law allows them, the two are married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary...
While the Italian freighter Leonardo da Vinci with a cargo of Renaissance paintings was being tossed in a heavy storm last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 23), the steamship Manuka, carrying a $125,000 traveling exhibition of modern British art to New Zealand, crashed in the fog on the rocks off South Island, near Australia, and broke up soon after the crew and passengers were removed. Among the shipwrecked paintings were two oils by Sir William Orpen, several water colors by Laura Knight, a collection of modern etchings by Frank Brangwyn and C. R. W. Nevinson...