Word: thos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardest hit by Mr. Hull's crackdown were tourist agencies. With no tours to book, no increase in travel to non-warring countries, Thos. Cook & Son laid off 125 employes, tightened its belt, like many a competitor, prepared for a starvation diet...
When rich, wanderlusty His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura, Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Deb decided to see the world, he instructed Thos. Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
...19th Century it turned up in the collection of one J. Thos. Stanley, Palmerston House, Turnbridge-by-Sheffield. A generation later it was hanging on the Bavarian walls of Otto Wesendonck, husband of Richard Wagner's greatest love, Matilde Wesendonck...
...Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. scored with a knighthood to Great-Grandson Thomas Cook, 34, "the youngest knight dubbed since 1911"; British Broadcasting Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing...
...THOS. MEADOWCROFT...