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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London the Right Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, Bart., P. C., M. P., chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. and director of many another industrial concern, last week received the British gentlemen of the press. In Manhattan a few hours later Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank and of the Chase Securities Corp. and director of many a banking, railroad, public utility and industrial concern received U. S. reporters. Both men had the same announcement to deliver-the creation of the Finance Company of Great Britain & America Ltd. with ?2,040,000 (about $10,000,000) capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Anglo-U. S. Financiers | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...purpose of the company is to apply capital, which the Wiggin and Mond organizations gather, to commercial and industrial enterprises in the British Empire, Europe and the U. S. Said Sir Alfred, selecting his words meticulously: "The potentialities are very great indeed. The money behind us may be said to be limitless, but it will be only for good things. There are possibilities of further extension internationally. This group of financiers is not intended to be an octopus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Anglo-U. S. Financiers | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Leaders & Spokesmen: 1) For Capital, Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, towering manufacturer of industrial chemicals, father of the present Conference, into which he has mustered the active heads of 159 major British corporations; 2) For Labor, Mr. Ben Turner, jovial, moderate President of the British Trades Union Congress, a body so potent that it wrought the great British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926), estimated to have cost the Empire not less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Hopeful! | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Conference. After three hours in secret session, last week, the leaders were optimistic. Said Mr. Turner: "Extraordinary successful! . . . The employers' proposals are exceedingly comprehensive. . . . We have entered these conversations without prejudice, committed only to the finding of a just and lasting solution of industrial problems." Said Sir Alfred Mond: "Most hopeful! . . . We have appointed a joint acting committee of investigation'' (to meet under the alternate chairmanship of Mr. Turner and Sir Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Hopeful! | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...anagram, of course from "Alfred Mond." He likes to toy with his name (Mondson, monsol) as much as did the late (1851-1925) soap maker Viscount Leverhulme (Lux, Rinso), who was born William Hesketh Lever and married Elizabeth Ellen Hulme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Antiseptic | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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