Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy Industry. Coal, iron & steel and engineering firms (including armaments) account for 59 Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an...
Communications. Sir Charles Coupar Barrie is a Tory M.P. for Southampton, a director of $150,000,000 Cable and Wireless, Ltd. But he is also on the board of big Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd., which controls eleven subsidiary insurance companies; of Santa Rosa Milling Co., Ltd., which has Chilean and...
At the Charles Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles, Calif. this week, shooting will begin on the most-discussed, most-feared-for, most-looked-for picture of 1940. The Great Dictator, written, produced, directed and acted by Charles Spencer Chaplin.* Among the speculators on what slue-footed little Charlie will do...
Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in...
Tireless Editor Grey often toiled 16 hours at a stretch before tooling off in his Wolseley to his Kingston-on-Thames home, nine miles from London (he is married, has a girl, 7, a boy, 9, who wants to be a flier). Most of his philippics he rasped into a...