Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation to a manufacturer, and it was Lord Leverhulme who developed the Belgian Congo more successfully than...
...search for raw materials? particularly palm oil?that Lord Leverhulme became involved in the greatest of his enterprises?the development of the Belgian Congo. Situated in the least illuminated portions of darkest Africa, first explored by the famed Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created...
...Ramsay MacDonald at Geneva (see The League), forthright Chancellor Snowden voiced his pride frankly to correspondents: "We succeeded in all the essential points of our claims. . . . The influence of Great Britain in international affairs has been reestablished. . . . The arrangement for withdrawal of foreign troops from the Rhine is the greatest political achievement since Locarno...
...duties of the office of President of Nicaragua require me to write for publication some statements that are a little severe. ... It seems to me that a crime was committed against this country when ... a nation friendly to Nicaragua was offended in the greatest pride that it can have, the honor of its army and of its marines. I refer to the United States of America...
Late to arrive in Minneapolis was Arthur Hind, Utica, N. Y. plush tycoon, owner of the "world's rarest stamp," the only known 1¢ British Guiana of 1856, for which he paid $32,500. philately's greatest price. Cut octagonally, magenta in color, not a particularly good specimen as stamps go, this unique scrap of paper was "discovered" in 1872, when it sold for six shillings...