Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France can maintain an army of 5,000,000, Poland an army of 2,000,000. Czechoslovakia 1,500,000 and Italy and other European countries 5,000,000. The Kellogg treaty, under these conditions, is not worth Lord Cushendun's railway fare to Paris to sign it. A clash is inevitable sooner or later if these gigantic armies are maintained, and the Anglo-French compact binds us to support France in its contention that not only these armies shall not be cut down but shall not even be discussed...
...dignified Conservative Prime Minister of England, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University last week in an extremely undignified election...
Quickly, they admitted Pioneers Ford, Schwab, Rosenwald, Eastman, Firestone and Speakers Swift, Taylor, Gifford, Mitchell and many another U. S. businessman to tycoonship. And with enthusiasm they claimed Honor Guest Lord Melchett as Foremost and Mightiest British Tycoon...
...When Lord Melchett landed in Manhattan, last month, no sophisticated observer believed he would repeat Father Ludwig's career and start building a factory to make soda-water. He had, in a manner of speaking, quite enough factories already. Less than two years ago, he had linked Brunner Mond Co. with Nobel Industries, Inc. (explosives) and British Dyestuffs, Ltd., to create England's largest holding company. As chairman of the board of Imperial Chemical Industries. Ltd. (I. C. I.), he presides over a corporation with an authorized capital of nearly...
...Lord Melchett returned from Canada, conferred privately and lengthily in Manhattan. Speculators, scorning merger denials, made hasty calculations. Assets of International Nickel total $75,000,000. Together with the Mond company's assets of $40,000,000, the new international nickel trust would be worth between $115,000,000 and $125,000,000. It would control all but a small fraction of the nickel supply of the world. To close the deal, speculators foresaw a split-up of International Nickel common stock, followed by an exchange of both International and Mond stock for shares in the new trust. Trading...