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Since last month the ist Lady of Minto has been missing from her accustomed place in London's Mayfair district. Her place is in the art gallery of Victor Gilbert Lariston Garnet Murray-Kynnyn-mond Elliott, the present (5th) Earl of Minto. Done in the 18th century by the masterful brush of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the ist Lady of Minto's value as last estimated was anywhere up to $150,000. When the theft was discovered His Grace posted a reward of $10,000 for the capture of the thief, the return of his ancestress...
...Englishmen venerate the Archbishop of Canterbury, passionately though the Primate has inveighed against the Soviet Government (TiME, March 10), a credit of $150,000,000 over a two-year period opened at London in favor of the Reds was announced last week, and such outstanding British firms as Brunner, Mond & Co., Ltd., Imperial Chemical Trust of Great Britain and Vickers-Arm-strong Co., Ltd., prepared to ship to Russia as rapidly as possible $40.000,000 worth of chemical and hydro-electric products...
...crime, it is probably humane compared with the vengeance which the inconvenienced and thwarted users of the book would like to take upon the person of the offender. The offender, if he could realize the trouble he is causing and the warth he calls forth would probably mond his ways...
...London potent Baron Melchett (Alfred Moritz Mond), one of the foremost British industrial tycoons, pledged ?5000 ($25,000) to feed and succor the hundreds of Palestine Jews burnt out of their homes or left orphaned, widowed, destitute. London Bankers James A. de Rothschild quickly followed with a like sum. So did Manhattan's Felix Warburg, who was in London. A fourth $25,000 was pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry...
...Henry Mond and Jenny Lee. Britain's most potent industrialist, Lord Melchett, saw his son, the Hon. Henry Mond, capture a seat for the Conservatives last week, by 3,000 plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny...