Word: melchett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will of Baron Melchett, "one of the richest men in England," surprised the public when it disclosed that his estate at his death was only $2,500,000. But it did not surprise financial wiseacres who were aware that most of his holdings were in stocks knocked down by the economic depression, particularly Imperial Chemical and International Nickel. The remaining estate will be divided among his family. The new Lord Melchett will inherit half the estate. Lady Erleigh, daughter-in-law of the Marquess of Reading, Great Britain's No. 1 Jew, is to receive Lord Melchett...
Edward Wentworth Beatty, chairman and president of Canadian Pacific Railway, was elected a director of the advisory committee of International Nickel Co. of Canada Ltd., succeeding the late Lord Melchett...
First. Lord Reading succeeded the late Alfred Moritz Mond, Baron Melchett, as Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., thus becoming the Empire's No. 1 tycoon...
Zionist efforts will be redoubled at an emergency meeting of the World Zionist Actions Committee planned for November 4 in London. To cheer President Weizmann came a fighting letter from Great Britain's richest Jewish industrialist, Baron Melchett, who also resigned his chairmanships of the Council and Political Committee of the Jewish Agency. Calling the Passfield Declaration a "grotesque travesty ... an insult to the intelligence of Jewry," he wrote with cold fury: "It is impossible to discover what rights the Jews in or out of Palestine are to have in the future, or in what way they...
...stuff, but of the same quality that won 5,000,000 Liberal votes at the last election. What was new came next. Earlier in the week, Sir William Philip Morris, famed small-motor-car tycoon, had drummed up another committee of "foremost British industrialists," including Jewish Baron Melchett to try again to save the Empire from "economic ruin" and its "muddling politicians." Poking fun at the "Industrialists," Politician Lloyd George remarked that "Great Britain is the most overindustrialized country in the world. Only 7% of our people are on the soil! At present the industries of the country...