Word: pollitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blushed Cunliffe-Lister: "I plead slightly guilty. I find to my surprise that I own three shares of Vickers stock bringing me dividends of 7½ shillings a year. I thought I had sold all my Vickers holdings years ago." Star accusation of the session was made when Harry Pollitt, testifying on behalf of the British Communist Party, charged that George V's own cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, held 5,000 5% preference shares of Vickers...
Vickers is frankly a munitions firm, but huge Imperial Chemical Industries, among whose subsidiaries are six munitions firms, claims that less than 1% of its profits are from munitions. Venerable Chairman Sir John began to frown when Communist Pollitt reeled off the names of holders of I. C. I. stock as "an indictment of the Capitalist class as a whole." Outstanding names: Quaker Cocoamaker Barrow Cadbury (30,875), Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (833 preference, 5,414 ordinary) and the Right Rev. Edward Thomas Scott Reid, Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (?2,100 in ordinary and preference...
Twenty-three of the awards are made for travel abroad. Six research fellowships in the Law School; with a total value of $15,750, were announced as follows: the Judah Philip Benjamin Research Fellowship to B. H. Pollitt of Newark, N. J.; the Sidney Thompson Fairchild Fellowship to P. E. Bryan, of Emery University, Georgia; the Brandies Research Fellowship to A. L. Harding, of Dallas, Texas; and three unnamed research fellowships in the school, to P. A. Freund, of St. Louis, Missouri; G. V. Head of Columbia, Missouri; and J. J. Smith, Jr., of Meridian, Mississippi...