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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army which is seething with ambitions for a coup d'état. As always since the War the stabilizing influence in Greece remained British influence. The millionaire widow of M. Venizelos is the daughter of a British-nationalized Greek. Another British-moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King George II himself went direct from London to resume the Greek Throne as the protégé of King George V and London bankers (TIME, Dec. 2). As Greek church bells tolled for Venizelos and Greek flags flew at half mast, Greek censors passed Athens dispatches...
Died, Eleanor Constance Lodge, 66, first woman to receive an LL.D. from Oxford University, sister of Spiritualist Sir Oliver Lodge; in Oxford...
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...
...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 pay about $15,000,000, thereby providing Sir Henri with a profit of $6,000,000 on his U. S. building venture...
When the liner docked, the couple tripped smiling down the gangplank, amid yells of "Here comes the bride!" They refused all comment on the nuptials. Then Cinemactor Chaplin chartered the yacht Sea Belle II from Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements, for an East Indies cruise, sped off for a few days in Java...