Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly came the bombshell that Ethiopia's Emperor, like an incipient bankrupt who hastily transfers his assets, had handed oil concessions covering more than half his realm to a British Master of Foxhounds with swank London connections (see p. 23). Instantly the French Left Parties, hostile to Capitalism and to Imperialism, were alert. M. Herriot and the other Leagophiles began to wonder if British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden, who had been slated to preach to the League Council this week about Right & Justice, was not either duped or duping. Paris detected a nauseating odor of oil from...
...Castle, South Wales. This was once the country seat of Lord Kylsant, also a beefy John Bull, who went to jail for his irregularities as chairman of the Royal Mail (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et ante). There today Fat Chaps is respected as Mr. Francis M. Rickett, velvet-capped Master of Foxhounds of the swank Craven Hunt in Berkshire. The local lords and squires who hunt with him know nothing about oil, and little about Mr. Rickett. In Irak sheiks know him as one of Britain's slickest oil promoters. While "Lawrence of Arabia" was worrying about the Arabs...
Last week, after an unsuccessful attempt at reorganization, North & South Development Co. was placed under a special master and committee of trustees who began liquidating its assets to pay off $897,000 in claims...
...depopulated and wasted though she must be--she would soon be attacking the United States, threatening the Monroe Doctrine, etc. But the point is not that she would have invaded America immediately. The point is that in a few years Germany, economic mistress of all Europe, and unquestioned military master, must inevitably have faced the United States, her rampant militarism vindicated to the detriment of pacific America. One wishes Mr. Millis had seen the implications of this argument; he might feel happier about the results...
...point of the Morrow plan was that United Stores Corp. would receive 444,840 shares, or 37%, of the new common stock at a special price which would give it a profit of $437,000 in return for money spent in acquiring landlord's claims. That, said the Special Master, was an "unconscionable profit" which Congress never intended when it passed the new bankruptcy amendment. Equally displeased were the common stockholders who had a p!an of their own. They wanted the Morrows to get only what they had spent for landlord claims, plus a small profit and no common...