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...ALFRED BUTTERFIELD...
Plumb Crazy. Most of the companies still trying to operate are British, e.g., Traders Jardine, Matheson & Cox, and Butterfield & Swire, and the British-American Tobacco Co. There are a few American interests still functioning, but they are under the same pressures. Example: the Communists are trying to make four U.S. banks pay off their depositors in the same way as the British banks. But in this the Reds will probably fail, since the dollar deposits are in America and the U.S. Treasury refuses to permit delivery of the funds to Chinese mainland branches. The only Western firm in Shanghai that...
...former Dartmouth captain and then for two years one of the best guards in professional basketball with the Boston Celtics. Leede is also the official coach of the Business School squad. Al Stein, last year's Columbia captain, Dick Kazmaier of Princeton, Dick Stubbing of Notre Dame, and Bill Butterfield of Purdue give the team plenty of variety in background...
Getting Out. It was firms like Jardine's and Butterfield & Swire, hoping to do business with the Communists, that did much to persuade the British Labor government to recognize Mao Tse-tung. In British-held Hong Kong, trade with China skyrocketed. The artificial prosperity did not last. On the mainland, the Communists imposed confiscatory taxes on foreign enterprises, shut off trade, and while refusing to allow workers to be fired, denied exit permits to some 700 British nationals...
...Butterfield also proposed that colleges abolish long pre-season practices, abolish long trips, limit practice time, play teams only in the colleges' own class and group, and insist that athletes on scholarships remain in the top half of their class...