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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beside Windsor | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Private Osborne had no knife. Then another plane flew up, maneuvered above Osborne while an officer lowered a sandbag to which a knife was tied. After a half-hour's effort, Osborne caught the knife, freed himself, opened his second 'chute and landed safely in a corn field. There his irate instructors found him, angrily informed him he must repeat the parachute course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flunked | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

George Monroe Moffett was made president of Corn Products Refining Co,, succeeding the late Edward Thomas Bedford (TIME, June 1). George Monroe Moffett was previously Corn Products' vice president. He is a director of Chase National Bank and many industrial companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Corn Products Refining is a far greater company than Penick & Ford. Last year it earned $14,067,000 against $16,309,000 in 1929. Its total assets come to $127,393,000 against Penick & Ford's $14,097,000. Some 9,000 people own its common stock. Corn Product's best known brands include Argo starch, Mazola oil, Karo syrup, Linit starch, Cerelose sugar, Kremel pudding powder. Since Father Bedford was believed to be one of its largest shareholders, Son Bedford may find himself in the strange position of having a more valuable investment in Corn Products than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Father & Son | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...played poker. Every winter F. T. Bedford would spend a month or so with his father at Lake Wales, Fla. Each admired the other. But years ago they made a rule never to discuss business together. The rule was very seldom broken even to mention such important matters as Corn Products' patent infringement suit against Penick & Ford, or Penick & Ford's patent infringement suit against Corn Products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Father & Son | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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