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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most famed of British annuals is probably the children's Chatterbox, which for well-brought-up English and American moppets has long been a Christmas staple. This year Chatterbox was issued by London's Dean & Son, Ltd., who acquired it from the family of its late Editor Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton. Founder of Chatterbox was the Rev. Erskine Clark who started it in St. Paul's shadow in 1866 passed it on to Editor Darton when he died in 1901. In the monthly Chatterbox, Canon Clark hoped to get children's minds off "bad stories...
Died. Sir Basil Zaharoff, 86, Greek munitioneer and "Mystery Man of Europe," knighted by King George V, supersalesman for Vickers Ltd.; at Monte Carlo last week; of heart failure. Minimum estimate of the fortune left to Sir Basil's stepdaughters, the Royal Bourbon Princesses Angela & Maria: $50,000,000. Their mother waited 40 years for their insane father Prince Francisco of Bourbon-Sicily to die before she married her lover Sir Basil in 1924 only to die 17 months later. Up in London popped a 67-year-old shoemaker, Hyram Barnett Zaharoff to contest the will and claim...
...farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold the rest to Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service...
...Books by Lord Cottenham: Motoring Without Fears, Sicilian Circuit, All Out, Motoring Today and Tomorrow and Steering Wheel Papers. †Its makers were originally the Morris Garages of Abingdon-on-Thames, are now incorporated as the M.G. Car Co. Ltd...
William Jameson distilled his first batch of whiskey in Ireland in 1752, aged it in sherry casks. The company he founded is still making whiskey in Dublin although no Jameson has been in the firm since 1905. Present president of William Jameson & Co., Ltd. is smart, swart Lionel Marks. Last year Mr. Marks observed that during Prohibition the taste for malty Irish whiskey seemed to have dwindled away in the U. S., sought co-operation of National Distillers to get Jameson's consumed somehow. Their new "Irish-American" product is 25% pot-still Irish, 20 years...