Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, men of the city communed over a tale last week. They thought of it, in essence, as of a temperance milk shake poured upon a table-fountain sizzling with champagne. The spirit of the milk shake is a British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits...
...London, Wagons-Lits Chairman Baron Dalziel announced that "while actually controlling Cooks' " he will sit as vice-chairman of Cooks' board under the continued chairmanship of Frank Henry Cook, Knight of Grace...
...only that, but in London British patriots began to suspect that a U. S. corporation might join the Cooks-Wagons-Lits merger. Of these possibilities Captain Cohn naturally said not a word last week. Instead he expanded on the immediate benefits of merging "Cooks' " into Wagons-Lits. With a bland contented air, Captain Cohn said...
Very recently in the London Daily Herald, James Ramsay MacDonald, former premier and present Labor leader, expressed some views on the relationship of the New World with the old. Mr. MacDonald made two suggestions. The first is that it is foolish to believe that international differences are non-existent, and the ex-premier feels that a "nasty frame of mind is growing up" which must be faced at once. The second recommendation is that the situation cannot be effectively treated by means of "old European policies and diplomacies", this recommendation being based on the specific instance of Lord Derby...
...released yesterday is as follows: Embark at Boston Navy Yard June 21; arrive Halifax June 23; leave Halifax June 26, arrive Portland June 30; leave Portland July 3; disembark Boston Navy Yard July 4. It has been suggested that when the ship leaves Boston she might proceed to New London for the Harvard-Yale boat races the next day and leave for Halifax from there. Owing to the heavy demands upon the time of the Wyoming all next summer and the difficulty of rearranging the itinerary, there is only a bare possiblity that this part of the program will...