Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With two wins as a team and a win over the Royal Navy fifteen when playing with Yale, the Crimson Rugby Club was highly successful in its second annual trip to Bermuda. On Monday, March 3, it defeated the Bermuda Athletic Association 15-5 as soon as it debarked and the next day was able to repeat with an 8-5 victory over Yale...
...King last week on the 58th day of his reign held his first levee as Edward VIII. Hitherto these royal receptions of men have nearly always been held in St. James's Palace ("The Court of St. James") with the Sovereign driving thither in horse-drawn state from his residence at Buckingham Palace. This procedure Edward VIII, who has his apartments in a wing of St. James's Palace and uses Buckingham Palace merely as an office, varied in two precedent-shattering respects. He held his "Court of St. James" levee in Buckingham Palace, and he drove thither...
...sing any 14 that were most in demand. His repertory was impressively wide, ranging from Brahms lieder to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Three of the loudest requests were for the Toreador's song from Carmen; De Glory Road, now popular because of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Crawford composition...
Flintkote to Lehman. Among the far-flung assets of Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch-Shell group of oil properties is an old-line U. S. building concern, Flintkote Co., makers of asbestos and asphalt shingles and roofing, building paper and other asphalt products. Sir Henri picked it up in 1928 for $8,700,000 cash, receiving the entire issue of Class B stock, which carries the right to elect a majority of Flintkote directors. The Class A stock is traded on the New York Curb Exchange, selling last week for $48 per share as against...
...about to sell out. Last week the reports were confirmed when Flintkote filed a registration statement for an issue of common stock to replace the present Class B stock now outstanding. Upon that conversion the Class A automatically becomes plain common. When this operation is completed, two Royal Dutch affiliates, Shell Union .and N. V. de Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, will sell the Flintkote shares they will get in exchange to a banking group headed by Manhattan's Lehman Brothers, who will in turn offer the stock to the public. For the Royal Dutch interest the Lehman group will...