Word: matheson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jardine, Matheson & Co. and other big British traders in Red China, the road to disillusion has been a way of travail. After the Reds won the China mainland, such firms as Jardine's, Butterfield & Swire, and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. had the rosily misguided notion that they could do profitable business with Mao Tse-tung. It was in part because of their illusions and their influence that Britain's Labor government of the time recognized the Mao regime...
Plumb Crazy. Most of the companies still trying to operate are British, e.g., Traders Jardine, Matheson & Cox, and Butterfield & Swire, and the British-American Tobacco Co. There are a few American interests still functioning, but they are under the same pressures. Example: the Communists are trying to make four U.S. banks pay off their depositors in the same way as the British banks. But in this the Reds will probably fail, since the dollar deposits are in America and the U.S. Treasury refuses to permit delivery of the funds to Chinese mainland branches. The only Western firm in Shanghai that...
...talking about the none "too lily-white" professors here Mrs. Brown cited only a "Professor Matheson" and offered to let Senator Tobey have a "look at his record." Mrs. Brown was evidently referring to F. O. Matthiessen, one-time professor of History and Literature, who committed suicide in the spring...
...18th century. Ashore, the traders were treated to fireworks and feasting by hong merchants, who alone among Chinese were permitted to deal with foreigners. But opposition to the old East India Co. was growing in England. Company Surgeon William Jardine saw his chance. He and his partner, James Matheson, a fellow Scot, doubled as consular representatives of foreign countries. Soon Jardine, Matheson & Co. were making millions in the China trade...
...hull, and two casualties-a Chinese crewman who had been wounded in the knee by a pirate bullet, and the ten-year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short speeches...