Word: monde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Alfred Moritz Mond, most potent British chemical tycoon, and onetime (1921-22) Minister of Health...
...financier and mining potentate; at Buckland, near Bwlch, Breconshire, when the horse he was exercising ran into a telegraph pole. England was waiting to hear of the completion of a merger of Lord Buckland's Welsh industrial and mining interests with those of Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond...
...Alfred Mond was aboard the Lutzow. So was Irénée du Pont, representing the world potent E. I. du Pont de Nemours chemical firm of Wilmington...