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Among the first to leave was William Hale Thompson. A truck removed his office furniture, including twelve telephones. Then he took a party of 70 not-too-happy friends off on a chartered steam packet Cape Girardeau for a cruise down the Mississippi River...
Royal Mail Submerged. Stormy seas of financial difficulties have long been swamping the once proud & mighty Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (TIME, Dec. 8). Lord Kylsant is being replaced on the bridge by Walter Runciman; a reorganization is planned. Yet to Royal Mail stock-holders last week brought the stormiest...
...house has been sold, the family is moving out. Her relatives gather. All save one have denied themselves life, just as Alison had. After a good deal of melodrama, during which a doddering old aunt trys to burn the house down, a niece gets hold of a packet of Alison's poems- the ones which tell of her thwarted love. The niece is the only one who has attained the freedom which Alison's poems sang about. After three acts she persuades the family that just as the dead poetess was always making little gifts to her intimates...
Lamport & Holt. More pleased than shocked were Britishers last week when venerable (formed in 1845) Lamport & Holt Ltd. went into a receivership. The Royal Mail Steam Packet group of shipping companies, to which Lamport & Holt belongs, has given many a shock already and last week's receivership merely meant that the management has started a reorganization. Shipping men foresaw some such development when Lamport & Holt withdrew their South American passenger service recently (TIME...
There was many a doubt expressed last year concerning the competency of Owen Crosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, sometimes called "Lord of the Seven Seas," chairman of the huge far-flung Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which includes among its many steamship lines the White Star. Last year Lord Kylsant was publicly accused of mismanagement by his brother Viscount St. Davids. Royal Mail stock sank swiftly and dangerously, Royal Mail passed its dividend (TIME, Dec. 23). Lord Kylsant, it appeared, had purchased investments in "other than shipping companies." Good-will was not augmented by the knowledge that Lord Kylsant draws...