Word: heyworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefree caprice of the royal prerogative sometimes to be seen. The caprices made the headlines, but the top honors went to the most staunchly established pillars of a solvent society: ¶Baronies (with the right to be addressed as "Lord") went to Unilever Board Chairman Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, ex-M.P. and Bank Director Ralph Assheton, Merchant Malcolm S. McCorquodale and World Court Judge Sir Arnold Duncan McNair. ¶Knighthoods (and the right to be addressed as "Sir") went to the British West Indies' onetime rabble-rousing Labor Leader William Alexander Bustamante, who used to cock a snook...
...office in Racine, Wis., Jervis J. Babb, executive vice president of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (floor wax), got an unexpected phone call from New York City. Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman of the global Unilever soap empire, had never met Jerry Babb, but he wanted to. Would Mr. Babb have lunch in Chicago that week with him and Paul Rykens, boss of Unilever's Dutch affiliate...
...sunny morning sped Charles Luckman, 40, the hustling, $300,000-a-year president of Lever Bros. There, a sleek Constellation rolled to a halt and from it stepped his two bosses, who also happen to be two of the world's most potent tycoons-pipe-smoking Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, boss of Britain's Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd., and Paul Rykens, boss of Holland's Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V. Between them, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens run the globe-girdling Lever soap empire with some 500 subsidiaries in over 40 countries...