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Mention in the current issue of TIME [Feb. 14] regarding the arrival in this country of Lord Leverhulme, English soap magnate, recalls an amusing incident at the time the first Lord Leverhulme, then but plain W. H. Lever, made his debut in British politics...
...Lever was contesting the Wirral (Cheshire) district, in opposition to one Holt. The year was 1908 or thereabout...
Clever Mr. Lever countered with "Vote for Lever and dam the flowing tide." Lever won the election...
...Philadelphia, the Right Honorable Viscount Leverhulme, head of Lever Bros. Ltd. (Soap) arrived at the 30th Street Railroad Station. President of the International Committee of Scientific Management, he was vexed to discover that he had brought his wife and baggage, had forgotten his railroad tickets. Efficiently he boarded his train, bought two more tickets...
...packing cases, taken in a recent raid on branch headquarters of the Csar, a Rightist organization accused of plotting the overthrow of the French Republic (TIME, Dec. 6). The raid had also netted three Hotchkiss machine guns and 71 automatic rifles, but these cases contained hand grenades. The firing lever of each grenade was held down by a band of paper. Since many were damp, the paper bands seemed likely to break at the slightest shock...