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Stubbornly shaking his head, George Rowland Blades, Baron Ebbisham, onetime (1926-27) Lord Mayor of London and Alderman for the Ward of Bassishaw, was the only dissenting member of a board of five which last week enthusiastically endorsed the long-shelved project to build a 20-odd-mile tunnel under the English Channel, connect London and Paris by rail. Not so Lord Ebbisham. Pressed for reasons, he contented himself with remarking ominously: "The displacement of sailors on the Cross-Channel Route would be regrettable...
...supporters include H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born London department store tycoon, and Sir William Bull, senior partner of Bull and Bull, eloquent solicitors. They were pleased but cautious at last week's report. Beside the obvious opposition of cross-Channel steamship companies, other timorous Tories like Lord Ebbisham, the Channel tunnel must still be approved by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
...much as it has been for over 180 years. Trooping in, last week, to dine off the City's plate of gold, went not only H. R. H. but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Empire's choicest assortment of Industrial Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss off a few champagne toasts to the British Industries Fair, which would open next day in London. But no sooner had Edward of Wales risen and begun to speak, than the Tycoons realized with...
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