Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tour through English factory towns is an august, frock-coated, slant-eyed Trade Delegation from the rich Chinese province of Manchuria. Last week while visiting the extensive Longbridge Works at Birmingham, where Sir Herbert Austin turns out his trig, seven h. p. "Baby Austins" in thousands, Chairman T. Y. Wang of the Delegation said...
...sorry, sir," says the butler over the telephone, "Mr. Wallace is writing a play and must not be disturbed before it's finished. . . . What's that, sir? . . . You'll hold the wire...
...Harbor in the hope that the Ogre might show himself on deck. When, last week, two Napoleons of U. S. finance reached London on a diplomatic, but controversial errand, they were regarded with less hostility but with almost as much curiosity. "American Millionaires in Kingsway," headlined the London Standard, "Sir Hugo Meets the United States Giants," cried the London Evening News. Much has Britain lately worried concerning the U. S. Money; now Yankee Doodle had certainly come to town...
...finance know, they had come to London to combat the recent decision (TIME, April 1) of British General Electric Co., Ltd., to restrict a forthcoming stock issue to British citizens exclusively. This plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich. So Sir Hugo, discovering himself to be an unpopular minority, postponed the issue, pending conferences with representatives...
...public could squeeze information out of the official communiques concerning the Hirst-Chadbourne-Swope meetings. The first report said that "no conclusion was arrived at at this morning's amicable meeting." Further meetings were delayed when Mr. Chadbourne was taken with a chill. It is known, however, that Sir Hugo has proposed a compromise arrangement by which U. S. shareholders can exercise their rights in the new issue, provided that they sell their new shares within ten weeks. This arrangement permits U. S. shareholders to benefit by the bonus character of the new stock, but makes no concession...