Word: midlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Record Low. For the first time in the 81-year long history of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway its directors declared a dividend of only 1½% last week. Cause: disastrous industrial depression resulting from the British coal strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Midnight Visitor. At a maternity hospital in London's slummy East End the lights were snapped on suddenly one midnight last week, and 48 recent mothers blinked sleepy, startled eyes. Then they huddled bed clothes around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen...
...Midland Bank...
...Plus Viscount Inchcape, Chairman, P. & O. Navigation Co. ; Henry Bell, Director Lloyd's Bank, Ltd. ; Sir Josiah Stamp, President, London Midland and Scottish Ry. ; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild of N. M. Rothschild & Sons; and 36 other equally potent financiers...
...owners (TIME, Sept. 13 et seq.) entered its fourth week the Government concluded its case. The crux of testimony offered was that brought out by U.S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner, who traced $40,000 worth of bonds given by Herr Merton to the late John T King to the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, of which Mal S. Daugherty, the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General's brother, is president. Mr. Buckner then offered evidence that these bonds had been converted into cash, then handed over to Harry M. Daugherty...
...With the Government's case against Colonel Miller practically complete, Mr. Buckner then began his onslaught on onetime (1921-24) U.S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty. He traced a $22,163.81 check of John T. King's to a deposit in the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, on Oct. 13, 1921. It happens that Harry M. Daugherty's brother, Mai S. Daugherty, is president of this bank; that the records for Oct. 13 and 14, 1921, have disappeared; that the accounts of Harry M. Daugherty, Mai S. Daugherty, and Jesse Smith are missing...