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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Douglas Vickers, 76, retired chairman of Vickers Ltd., World's No. 2 munitions firm,* onetime (1918-22) Member of Parliament; in London. In 1931 he declared to visitors in his plant: "Our work is very necessary, because the League of Nations cannot be depended upon to do everything...
...Board of Directors of Standard Brands, Inc. has never had a chairman. When the office was created last week everyone knew who would fill it: Joseph Wilshire, president since 1929 when Fleischmann Co. was merged with E. W. Gillett Co., Ltd. and Royal Baking Powder Co. Upped to the presidency was Thomas L. Smith...
...London, a Chancery Justice heard the Negus' counsel stoutly assert: "I hope to satisfy your Lordship that the plaintiff is still the Emperor of Ethiopia. . . . He is so recognized by the British Government." But the court postponed decision on the case in which British Cable & Wireless Ltd. denies it owes the Emperor $50,000 for the maintenance in Ethiopia of a radio station for duplex radiotelegraphic service between Britain, Ethiopia, instead claims that the money now reverts to the King of Italy...
...Michael Joseph Ltd., London...
...Consolidated Royal Chemical Corp., which makes such proprietary drugs as Zymole Trokeys, Peruna, Boal's Rolls and Kolor-Bak ("Why have gray hair?"), is an amalgamation of three companies, Royal Drug Co. and Consolidated Drug Trade Products, Inc., in Chicago, and Consolidated Drugs, Ltd. in Canada. All three are the creations and property of the four Hirschfield brothers, James, Nathan, Harold and Irving. In 1916 James at 27 and Nathan at 25 had saved $12,000 from their retail drugstore in the Maxwell Street slum area of Chicago where they were raised, went into the wholesale drug business. Last...