Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
...military correspondents" of London papers wrote that this was the first time in British history that a sentry had disappeared from a British Royal sentry post. They took comfort in the fact that the King was not in residence at Buckingham Palace when the vanishment occurred. "The matter is being treated," said the pontifical Times, "with some levity in the barracks of the Welsh and Coldstream Guards...
...drug companies. In March, 1929, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., announced the acquisition of 18 additional companies. Last week J. S. Merrell Drug Co. was sold to McKesson & Robbins, began to operate as a McKesson & Robbins subsidiary. In addition to its U. S. companies, McKesson & Robbins has branches in London, Paris, Montreal, Kobe, Shanghai, Hankow, and many a South American city. The 1928 net earnings of the 16 original companies...
Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance...
...long owned by Dukes of Portland, the vase had been announced for auction by the present Sixth Duke, "owing to the exigencies of the present times." For 119 years the Portlands had loaned it to the British Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed, of course, that "some rich American" would carry off the treasure. Even Edward of Wales strolled in, peered at the exquisite white and blue glass scene of the marriage of King Peleus and Thetis, Queen of the Nereids...