Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beheld, for the first time in 22 years, the apparition of two Sheriffs of the city of London, clad in scarlet robes, accompanied by the bewigged City Remembrancer, appealing at the bar of the House of Commons...
...Sheriffs appealed against the destruction of 52 churches in the city of London-nine built before the Great Fire, 32 designed by Sir Christopher Wren-which are about to be torn down under the Union of Benefices and Disposal of Churches...
White Star Line. Last week President Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co. was in London to sell his White Star Line to Furness, Withy & Co., British operators, for over $35,000,000 (TIME, May 24 et ante...
...drama of business does not always go unrecorded. Sometimes it yields good ore to a professional playmaker. John Galsworthy, for instance, devised a play called "Old English" (which had a successful run in New York and London last year) from a meditation which must have taken shape some- what like this...
Thus that eminent propagandist, Mr. Galsworthy, must have planned his play. Does life plagiarize literature? Only last week, in a noisy director's room in London, the scene was enacted exactly as Mr. Galsworthy planned it. Sir Thomas Lipton was the oaken figure at the foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know...