Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balancing figure of the British budget. These facts were used last week in a slashing attack on the Laborite Chancellor by Conservative Sir Josiah Stamp. One of London's most potent tycoons. Sir Josiah served with Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan in drafting the Young Plan which Mr. Snowden would not endorse at The Hague until it had been changed, to give Britain more "sponge cake." Last week Sir Josiah testily observed: "Mr. Snowden set out to get something off the Latins. He has got practically nothing...
...vastly different annual convention at Belfast, Ireland. Hard-bitten Ben Tillett made another speech. The years have brought power and respectability to British Labor. There were no Russian Communists at last week's meeting. One of the Trades Union's two gold watches went to a Mr. W. J. Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased inter-Empire trade...
...masterfully, President Wilbert J. Austin of Cleveland's famed Austin Co. (engineers and builders) turned from his glowing globe to speak crisply of his biggest, most distant deal. "Soviet Russia has adopted the method any large industrial concern in this country would use in a like undertaking," said Mr. Austin, slim, alert, decisive. "It has sent out its engineers to make a survey of the latest and best methods of doing what the country wants done. "Following this research the job was to find an organization that could do the work. Evidently the American idea of doing big things...
Other methods used by Sister Locy were generally a la McPherson. Arriving, she announced: "We have unfurled the Four-Square banner in Waukegan in answer to Mr. Voliva's rule of injustice and tyranny and to provide a church home for those who are disgusted with Voliva's tactics." Then hiring a theatre she held lusty revival meetings, playing hymns on her silver trumpet. As an additional lure she stated these meetings were exact duplicates of those Sister McPherson was holding in the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles. At the end of each session Sister Locy called upon...
Louis Arico, barber to most of Tammany Hall, was awakened one morning at 5 a. m. by a trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than...