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...patrician Montagu Collet Nor:nan, Governor of the Bank of England, chose a famed member of its board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests throughout ; Asia, is chairman of :the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank of London. He succeeded the late Baron Revelstoke as junior British representative of the Young Plan Committee (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Charter Men | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Married. Roger Culver Tredwell, 44, U. S. Consul General at Hongkong; and Metta-Louise Orr of Manhattan; in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Seaport Engineer Ernest P. Goodrich will so enlarge the harbor of Canton and deepen its connection with the sea that eventually the transshipment of goods at the British seaport of Hongkong, nearby, will be eliminated. Thus a potent source of revenue will be wrested from Britons in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago, Manhattan. Finally at the end of 40,000 miles it found him, last week, in New Hartford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Shanghai, Hongkong, Calcutta, Swatow, Madras, Bombay, Bankok, Amoy and Fu-chau he has great oil storage tanks. Standard Oil has similar stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Meyer v. Deterding | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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