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...late William Bolitho once wrote: "In the luxurious hand dealt England by Fate . . . the longest suit is the Jew. . . . Do not forget . . . Marcus Samuel, who gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Witnesses in Washington | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

with Lenina, fled from her like St. Cimeon Stylites from Thais. His Fordship Mustapha Mond granted him an old lighthouse where he could live in savagery, but television reporters hunted him out, Lenina returned to torture him and the flesh got him in the end. Early morning reporters found him dangling in his lighthouse. "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, northeast, east, southeast, south, south-southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Neckers | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...clever device Chairman Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology was able to measure the electrical charge of the electron, the indivisible unit of all electricity. For that Dr. Millikan won a 1923 Nobel Prize. Last week two other Caltech men-Jesse W. M. du Mond and Harry Kirkpatrick- reported the perfection of another device, to measure the speed of electrons moving within atoms. A serviceable description of the structure of an atom is this: At its core are, according to the particular kind of atom, 1 to 238 protons (positive charges of electricity). The hydrogen atom (simplest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electron Speeds | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

First. Lord Reading succeeded the late Alfred Moritz Mond, Baron Melchett, as Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., thus becoming the Empire's No. 1 tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Isaacs Week | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Jewish Telegraphic Agency at once pointed out, Rufus Daniel Isaacs' son & heir Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, is the husband of Alfred Moritz Mond's daughter Eva Violet. The son & heir of this No. 1 Jewish couple is Master Michael Alfred Rufus Isaacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Isaacs Week | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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