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...corporations, plus stock in 41 British-owned U.S. insurance companies (including Globe Indemnity and Royal Indemnity) estimated to be worth $180,000,000, plus an estimated $115,000,000 of unlisted securities in 46 privately owned U.S. corporations-including Delta & Pine Land Co., Dunlop Tire & Rubber, Clark Thread, Josiah Wedgewood & Sons (china), Yardley of London (cosmetics) Also assigned to RFC were the earnings of 41 U.S. branches of British insurance companies. Since total earnings of these investments have averaged about $36,000,000 a year-enough to amortize the loan at 3% interest in 15 years-Jesse Jones figured...
FOREVER FREEDOM-Josiah C. Wedgwood and Allan Nevins-Penguin Books...
...bull cavorting in a china shop was nothing to the stir raised last week when a china merchant lumbered into a bull pen. The china merchant was big, bluff Colonel the Right Honorable Josiah Clement Wedgwood, great-great-great-grandson of the Josiah Wedgwood who founded Britain's famed pottery works. The bull pen was Congress...
Beetle-browed, 69-year-old Colonel Wedgwood is no fancy-pants. He fought for Britain in the Boer War, in World War I was wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting progressive. For 35 years (first as Liberal, then as Laborite) he has been a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
...last month Colonel Josh landed in the U.S. He had every right to be there -for 90% of the business of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (whose managing director is the Colonel's son Josiah) is done in Canada, the West Indies...