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...Butterfield & Swire ranks as one of Britain's most proud and powerful companies in the China trade. Sometime in the late 19th Century it came to dominate Yangtze River shipping; it also operated a first-class fleet of ships up & down the China coast. When the Japanese in 1895 demanded the cession of Formosa, after defeating China in war, the influential taipans of Butterfield & Swire sent a haughty admonition to His Majesty's Minister in Peking: the Japanese, they insisted, must not be permitted to encroach on British trading privileges...
...Majesty's Prime Minister Clement Attlee says, there is a "new China." There is also a new Butterfield & Swire. Recently the company advertised a ship scheduled to sail from Hong Kong and arrive at Swatow on the south China coast by April n. Red Chinese authorities, in a huff because they had given permission for the ship to dock on April 13 only, refused to advance the entry date. What was more, they demanded a public apology from the company...
...BRIGHT winter sun shone down on the sparkling blue waters of Hong Kong's incomparable harbor. Commuters on the tidy little ferries that link Victoria Island with the mainland saw spread before them on the waterfront most of the great commercial names of the Orient-Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield & Swire, the East Asiatic Co. Dominating the closely packed warehouses and office buildings rose the massive square tower and the bronze lions of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp...
Meet the People. That is the whole story of A Rage to Live, John Henry O'Hara's new novel, his first in eleven years. But it is not O'Hara's whole intent. Like his earlier taut and febrile novels (Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8), A Rage to Live is shot through with enough gratuitous sex to get itself talked about. But unlike them it attempts the kind of large-scale social portraiture which could easily be the framework of the Great American Novel. Rage is not that. Its wide-lensed look at U.S. small...
...false. The committee also found itself beseiged with messages venching for Mr. Cohen--messages from its own philosophy, physics, and English departments, and from professors at Wesleyan University, where Mr. Cohen had been offered a job but had turned it down to try for the Yale position. Victor L. Butterfield, President of Wesleyan, personally telephoned President Seymour of Yale to register his protest...