Word: industrialist
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...jewelry. He is a disgraced nobleman. They fall in love, her self-confidence returns, he returns her belongings, sets out to get money enough to accompany her to Vienna. But they never get to Vienna, for he is shot while attempting to pilfer money from the room of an industrialist...
...industrialist has compromised himself for the first time in his life with a young stenographer. The stenographer goes away with a clerk who, knowing himself about to die, is cheerfully spending his life's savings. As the curtain falls a prophetic doctor is still seated grimly in the lobby, the desk clerk is notified that his wife has finally had her baby, and a traveler comes in to occupy the room in which the killing took place...
Zionist efforts will be redoubled at an emergency meeting of the World Zionist Actions Committee planned for November 4 in London. To cheer President Weizmann came a fighting letter from Great Britain's richest Jewish industrialist, Baron Melchett, who also resigned his chairmanships of the Council and Political Committee of the Jewish Agency. Calling the Passfield Declaration a "grotesque travesty ... an insult to the intelligence of Jewry," he wrote with cold fury: "It is impossible to discover what rights the Jews in or out of Palestine are to have in the future, or in what way they...
...about a new bronze statue. In the group were famed financiers in custom-made clothes, old workmen whose trousers showed a bag at the knees through the newly acquired press, young mechanics with large browned hands. All of them were there to honor the late great George Westinghouse, inventor, industrialist. Many present had worked with him, had known him as "The Old Man," whose impetuous, unreasoning temper and whose wholehearted consideration were amazing contradictions. The statue, erected by Westinghouse employes and friends, memorialized the genius which, though lately overshadowed by publicity for Thomas Alva Edison, was one of the . main...
...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...