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> Senior Laborite M. P. Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, who has given the House of Commons many an unorthodox thought on Palestine, taxes, President Roosevelt and India, bet Laborite M. P. Richard Stokes ?5 ($20) that London would not be bombed during the War's first six months. Owner of big...
Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren.
Instead of getting the order, "Firm B" was told by a Government official, "you are 50% too cheap!", the specifications were slightly altered, and "Firm B" then bid ?148 ($592), but the order finally went to "Firm A" at ?180 ($720). To newshawks Gadfly Stokes swore that he was in...
Obviously Laborite Stokes was hinting as directly as he dared at a major chain of collusion to up prices and profits, but he was faced down last week by Minister of Supply Dr. Leslie Burgin who appeared to be familiar with the transaction mentioned. It was simply not true, said...
Up to this week there was no body of information available to British press or public on which any such charges as those of Richard Stokes could be made to stick in a court of law. But everyone was hearing stories of disgruntled contractors who complained of price rigging on...