Word: matheson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assigning a director to supervise the whole production, had bits made under different directors and assembled the parts when completed. Best line: Butterworth's comment on Durante's party: "This place is littered with movie celebrities - and that makes some litter." Channel Crossing (Gaumont British). A financier (Matheson Lang) with a Christ-like beard is threatened with ruin when a clerk (Anthony Bushell), in love with his secretary (Constance Cummings), overhears that some of his securities are forged. The financier takes steps to kill the clerk. When he learns that his secretary loves Bushell, he spares the clerk...
...This was bad news for British and French businessmen in North China. Their colleagues in Manchuria had got a taste of Japan's policy of a nominal "open door" with a thousand petty obstructions for foreign businessmen. Last week two of the oldest British firms in China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between Japan...
...number one Harvard man, M.C. Stark '33, defeated Kallman of Army, in exactly 25 moves. The other Harvard players who won their matches were: M. A. Mergentheim, Jr. '33, S. S. Coggan '34, B. L. Bowie '35, and E. W. March and '36. V. L. Eaton '34, and Matheson of Army each received a half point in their match, by virtue of a perpetual check...
...been a K. C.- King's Counsel. Through his investment firm were handled the trust and endowment funds of the University and the diocese. Lawyer Machray was a nephew, heir and executor of the late pioneering Archbishop Robert Machray, who, like his successor Archbishop Samuel Pritchard Matheson, left the administration of church funds in Lawyer Machray's hands. In Winnipeg it was common to hear, "A Machray can do no wrong...
...Church of England brought no charges against Lawyer Machray. To rebuild the depleted fund, the income of which was from $60,000 to $70,000 a year, it was proposed that an appeal be sent to Anglican laymen throughout Canada. Saddest was the case of venerable, white- bearded Archbishop Matheson, onetime primate of all Canada. He admitted he had " lost everything," including $9,000 in savings, an $8,000 house...