Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President. Last year at Aberdeen, Sir Josiah Stamp, voluble economist, director of the Bank of England, chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, engaged in a spirited, if indirect, debate with Sir James Jeans. Sir Josiah contended in effect that science was causing too much technological unemployment, had better take a holiday (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). This year at Norwich the same Sir Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which...
...there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world's largest, and onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...rights to a valuable Eagle oil field, has been suing Eagle with great success in the Mexican courts. Appealing last month to the Supreme Court, Eagle was obliged to put up a bond of approximately $10,000,000, winner take all. Eagle chose London's Midland Bank as a safe place for this huge stake, the largest cash bond in Mexican history. Last week the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that it must be deposited in a Mexican bank. To add to Eagle's woes, the Mexican Government abruptly issued a sweeping decree that all concessions of State lands...
...Mayfair, Metropole and Grosvenor. His brother Arthur Edward, also in Manhattan last week, runs the biggest hotel chain outside the U. S., a string of smaller places the length & breadth of the British Isles. On the side he directs the dining-car, restaurant and hotel division of London, Midland & Scottish...
...tightly as he fills his own bulging vest does Sir Josiah Charles Stamp fill his various important posts in London. As a Director of the Bank of England, this pink and pleasant knight is second only in reputation to Montagu Norman. He is also chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a colonel of the Royal Engineers, general treasurer of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and a much sought-after lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge...