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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...
...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...
...late Ludwig Mond owned many an old painting - an early Raphael, a Botticelli, a Titian. These he bequeathed as the Mond Collection, contingent upon his wife's death, to the National Gallery in London...
...season they entertain with as lavish hospitality at the other London house, Mondalfro,* or at their great estate, Melchet Court, a few miles northwest of Southampton. Lady Mond forebore her many social activities during the War; accomplished much alleviation of suffering, for which she was created (in 1920) Dame Commander of the British Empire...
...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...