Word: melchett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, were gathered on the same day the most distinguished, most potent businessmen of the U. S. Urged by Columbia University and by the Institute of American Meat Packers, they had come to attend 1) a Conference of Major Industries, and 2) a dinner to Alfred Moritz Mond, Lord Melchett, most famed of living British industrialists...
Both the conference and the dinner were sponsored by educators and meatpackers. Pressing invitations went to prospective speakers, prospective guests. Looking down the tables in the Hotel Astors ballroom, Lord Melchett saw many a familiar face...
Quickly, they admitted Pioneers Ford, Schwab, Rosenwald, Eastman, Firestone and Speakers Swift, Taylor, Gifford, Mitchell and many another U. S. businessman to tycoonship. And with enthusiasm they claimed Honor Guest Lord Melchett as Foremost and Mightiest British Tycoon...
...Tycoon Melchett rose to speak of Britain's industry, Britain's labor problems, Britain's new urge toward amalgamation...
English tycoons bought, last week, expensive paintings. Lord Melchett paid $200,000 for a Rembrandt portrait of Rembrandt's servant Hindrickje Stofiels, who stood stolidly by the artist in penurious years. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, bought a Gainsborough portrait of the artist at 21, his wife & daughter...