Word: lyle
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Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...people muttering about "academic freedom," getting up petitions, holding meetings. Dr. Uhler's resignation was at once demanded. Few days later, in spite of sputtering members of the American Association of University Professors (of which Dr. Uhler is a member) and a committee of New Orleans writers headed by Lyle Saxon (Old Louisiana, Lafitte, The Pirate), he was suspended. Then met the University Executive Board, of which Governor Huey Pierce Long is a leading member. Forthwith it dismissed Dr. Uhler...
Municipal Judge John Homer Lyle...
...Author. Andrew Nelson Lytle is one of the group of young literary Southerners (others: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Lyle Lanier) which is trying to organize an agrarian movement in the South. Author Lytle lives on a farm in north Alabama. Bedford Forrest is his first book...