Word: industrialist
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...everyone knows, the triumvirate at the head of the Liberal Party has long consisted of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (official leader), Mr. Lloyd George (leader by popular consent) and Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, famed Jewish chemical industrialist, who served as Commissioner of Works and later as Minister of Health in Premier George's Cabinet...
...serious debtor and a smiling creditor-Count Giusseppi Volpi, Finance Minister of Italy and the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were...
...century of disorder in Mexico has sanctioned frequent American intervention and more frequent threats of it. This policy has crystallized in the mind of the American, Industrialist with holdings in Mexico into the habit of appeal to the United States Government for security of his property. Such appeals are, in their essence, appeals to protect rights that the Mexican Government alone ought to be competent, not only to protect, but also to define; and are subversive to its every attempt to assert itself...
Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, retired last week, at 70. He will remain as a director. Mr. Rea, who rose from rodman in a chain gang, through every department of the railroad to election to the Presidency in 1913, is an industrialist of a school that is rapidly passing into legend- a school whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every...
Many a keen industrialist who keeps his eyes on things has proposed to buy them for scrap at scrap prices. But all was not generally known until the Chairman of the Shipping Board ("T. V. O'C.") made a speech, last week, to some travelers on a boat plying between Detroit and Buffalo...