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...Oxford representatives are world-renowned scholars. Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc., Fellow of Magdalen College, is the chairman. He is professor of Mineralogy at Oxford. The director of the British Museum is also included in the group. He is Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.A., Hon. D. Litt., Hon. Fellow of New College and Magdalen College, and internationally known as an eminent classical scholar. The third man is Sir Edmund K. Chambers, K.B.E., M.A., Corpus Christi College, who is the author of several books on the history of the English theatre...
...Author. The fame of Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell will hardly be increased if he becomes third Earl Russell (he is heir presumptive). Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven...
Rich, pious and a man of his solemn word is the Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett. Last July he said unto Canadians that if they would return his Conservative Party victorious to Parliament then verily, verily he would build a great tariff wall around the Dominion and behind it there would be plenty of new jobs for Canada's 117,000 unemployed. As everyone knows, it came to pass that Mr. Bennett is now Prime Minister with a clear majority over the Liberal opposition. One day last week he built his Great Wall. In British nations (each Dominion...
...Arbitral Board was to consist of three, and Lena chose as her personal champion a man in whom she knew all England (and particularly "The City") would have confidence, Rt. Hon. Sir Leslie Frederic Scott, P. C., onetime Solicitor General of Great Britain. In due course last Spring arbitral Chairman Stutzer summoned his Board to meet in Berlin. All seemed to be going swimmingly when...
Great Britain, eager to strengthen its industrial position, has vigorously pursued a policy of rationalization by merger. From the first it was known that the Bank of England, guided by able Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, instigated most of these deals. Recently the Bank, through a holding company, actually entered the industry and subscribed for 25% of the stock of the $30,000,000 Bankers Industrial Development Co. (TIME, June...