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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purple on the bench sat the Hon. Sir Albert Charles Clauson, C.B.E. Before him was a case in which stockholders of Haile Selassie's defunct Bank of Ethiopia were attempting to regain possession of certain securities, admittedly held by the National Bank of Egypt in Cairo, against the Italian-appointed liquidator of the Bank of Ethiopia, one Wladimiro Liguori. Plaintiffs brought in evidence a decree signed by Emperor Haile Selassie from his exile at Bath...
...University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner of Zenda). At that time he had no intention of going into any church. He studied law for six years at the Inner Temple, but the night before he was to take his bar examinations came his conversion. Cosmo Gordon Lang...
Challenger. Racing for the America's Cup tends to become an obsession. From 1899 through 1930, proprietor of the obsession was Great Britain's famed Sir Thomas (tea) Lipton, who spent $4,000,000 on five unsuccessful tries to "lift the Mug." Skipper Sopwith challenged for the Cup for the first time in 1934. Beaten after a disputed finish in the fourth race, he sailed home in a rage, announced he would never challenge again, took almost two years to change his mind. Famed principally as an airplane manufacturer, whose first appearance on the U. S. scene...
...Kimberley last week, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who is also chairman of Diamond Corp., was as optimistic about diamonds as his fellow South African, General Jan Christiaan .Smuts was pessimistic about gold. Operations were resumed last year at the Dutoitspan mine. With the world once more buying diamonds, said Sir Ernest, two other mines would soon be reopened: Bultfontein and Wesselton. Jagersfontein and Premier, where the great Cullinan diamond, world's largest (3,106 carats— 1 2/5 lb.), was found, would have to await larger quotas to permit profitable operation...
Just how De Beers managed to make nearly $15,000,000 profits last year with only one mine in full operation was not elucidated by Sir Ernest. Stockholders merely accepted the fact with a rousing "Hear! Hear!" The company inventories its diamonds on hand at ?1, and presumably a large part of the earnings, aside from some $4,200,000 derived from investments in such enterprises as African Explosives & Industries, Ltd., were realized on diamonds mined in previous years...