Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opined Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard next day: "So long as the U. S. persists in its policy of collecting War Debts ... the hope that the World War may become nothing more than an evil memory . . . must remain an unfulfilled and merely pious wish...
...Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, British hurdler (Cambridge University), resigned from the Grenadier Guards to enter business in The City (London's Wall Street...
...Chicago and collected a fortune from its clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank of the Atlantic Ocean. Albert Davis Lasker, chairman of Lord & Thomas and Logan (erstwhile Lord & Thomas) is head of the advertising agency which numbers among its accounts American Tobacco Co., Radio Corp. of America and many another. Once an $18 a week messenger boy in a Chicago agency, he now has a private barber shop in his agency office. Every morning...
...Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation...
...Economist Sidney Webb), Dr. Weizmann gave correspondents to understand that the Cabinet would continue sternest measures to restore peace in Palestine, and might even dismiss Acting High Commissioner Harry Charles Luke, whom Zionists regard as chiefly responsible for allowing the situation to get out of hand. Subsequent intimations by Lord Passfield that Mr. Luke would not be dismissed did not alter the fact that the Acting High Commissioner had been superseded in authority by the return to Jerusalem last week of High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor. That Sir John presently received instructions to take an unmistakably pro-Jewish line...