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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who buy stock in a munitions firm and cash their dividend checks with alacrity should turn up at stockholders' meetings to make trouble is an endless source of honest wonder to General Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, Chairman of Vickers...
...Sir Herbert has received from the U. S. the Distinguished Service Order, from Japan the Order of the Rising Sun and a hatful of European decorations including the Cross of the Legion of Honor and from George V the accolade of knighthood with the Grand Cross of the Order of The Bath...
Last week as seamy-faced Sir Herbert faced his annual stockholders' meeting & ordeal, up popped that spruce iron tycoon, the Earl of Dudley, to chirp: "Stockholders, I appeal to you to protect your Chairman against sniping. The sooner the Government and everyone else realizes that Vickers is a business and not a philanthropic institution the better...
This, from the Noble Earl, was well meant. As the glare of prying publicity increases, directors of munitions trusts are becoming cagier and Sir Herbert soon revealed that he is making progress. At the stockholders' meeting last year a sniping coupon-cutter produced German magazines carrying Vickers advertisements, loudly drew the only possible inference. Last week there seemed to be no more such advertisements and when the Chairman was questioned about German sales he replied as though shocked...
Embarrassing last year was a stockholder's sarcastic sermon on the theme that in Balkan countries the correspondent of the London Times always seemed to be a munitions salesman for Vickers, and vice versa. There was also the clergyman-stockholder with the loud, ironic laugh at many of Sir Herbert's statements-not-withstanding the fact that the Church of England's Clergy Pension Institution owns more Vickers shares than the Chairman himself...