Word: melchett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Melchett, better known as Sir Alfred Mond, internationally famed British industrial magnate, has agreed to speak before the second year class in the Graduate School of Business Administration next Tuesday on "The British Chemical Industry." He will give the address in Room 100, Baker Library, at 5 o'clock...
...Lord Melchett was raised to the peerage last May as a recognition of his contributions to British industry. Sir Alfred was the Minister of Health in the MacDonald Labor ministry and is a fellow of the Royal Society. He is the President of the giant corporation known as the Imperial Chemical Industries. In addition to speaking at Harvard, he will talk to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and will be entertained at a private affair in his honor, during his stay in Boston and Cambridge...
...Lord Melchett, onetime Sir Alfred Mond, paid $200,000 for a servant who can do no work. But the servant is pleasant to look at-for it is a painting by Rembrandt of his own servant, Hendrickje Stoffels. Sir Joseph Duveen, the seller, said that he was glad an Englishman got the painting, though an American would have paid him a higher price...
...Alfred Mond, the great chemical tycoon, was created Baron Melchett not long after he instituted the so-called Mond Conferences (TIME, Jan. 23), facilitating direct group bargaining between Employer and Employed, without meddlesome intervention from the Government. The left wing of British Labor considers that unions now attempting to cooperate with employers through Mond Conferences are obtaining little except efficient and scientific demonstrations that higher wages or shorter hours are quite unfeasable...