Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen-Mother Emma of Holland, 70 years old, the proud, aristocratic parent of plump, reigning Queen Wilhelmina. She stood alone in a room of the Royal Academy in London and looked at 51 browntoned Rembrandts, part of the magnificent loan exhibition of Dutch art which has delighted London since January (TIME, Jan. 21)?sequel to the Flemish exhibition of the year before. Attendants kept a curious crowd outside locked doors. When Queen Emma heard of this she at once commanded, "Let the people in! They must not be deprived of these things...
Three further lectures, which were announced yesterday, will bring to those interested, discussions of widely different subjects. On March 21, R. G. Hawtrey, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Whitehall, London, who is now delivering the Lowell Institute lectures in Boston, will speak on the British Treasury. On March 28, there will be a talk on "Political Theory and Political Practice" by Ernest Barker, professor at Cambridge University; and Charles Beard will lecture on "Hair Trigger Governments in Eastern Europe" on April...
...candidate for Board Chairmanship of Standard Oil of Indiana. Once (in 1923) Mr. Kingsbury, taking a cross-continental trip, was shocked to discover waiting for him at every station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce the arrival of the menagerie. Buffaloes, animals, bugler were all sent...
Cocoa Exchange. The Manhattan Cocoa Exchange transactions are about twice as large as transactions on all other cocoa exchanges combined, with London and Liverpool exchanges ranking next in size. It was originally (1925) planned as a cocoa and rubber exchange, but the rubber men did not come in and now have their own exchange. Outstanding furnishings on the rather sparsely equipped Exchange floor include a large battery of telephones and a brass-rail circle occupied by camp-chairs on which the traders perch. Compared to the Wall Street Exchange, there is a noticeable absence of fury, frenzy; the building...
...this ailment, in 1922, died Publisher Lord Xorthcliffe, whose picture always hung near the desk of Publisher Hadden. Lord Northchffe, indomitable, founded the London Daily Mail (now nearly 2,000,000 daily circulation), owned the London Times and scores of other publications, signed himself N like Napoleon. *Total paid in: $86,000. Largest subscriber, Mrs. William L. Harkness of Manhattan and Cleveland. First Board of Directors: Robert A. Chambers, Henry P. Davison, William V. Griffin, all of New York, William T. Hincks of Bridgeport, Conn.-besides Messrs. Hadden and Luce. Counsel: Judge Robert L. Luce of Manhattan...