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...every mile their ships steamed in 1925. Instead, for 16,450,000 miles of steaming, the company can show a profit of only "two bob" (2 shillings=24.5c each) per mile.† As President of the Board of the P. & O., James Lyle Mackay, First Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, 73, unchallenged maritime seigneur,** deigned to make no statement last week when the P. & O. balance sheet flashed over the cables. For him spoke his son-in-law, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, a Director of the Bank of England and of the P. & O.: "1925 was the worst year...
Justice Horridge, before whom the damage suit was tried, said: "Captain Wright is justified in thinking that in calling him 'a liar, a coward and a fool' Viscount Gladstone employed the language of the pantry rather than that of the House of Lords...
Thus wrote Captain Peter Emmanuel Wright, onetime assistant secretary to the Allied Supreme War Council in his recently published book, Portraits and Criticisms. The Right Honorable Herbert John Gladstone, first Viscount Gladstone, son of the late Victorian Liberal Premier, at once denounced his father's abuser to the secretary of the Bath Club, of which both Captain and Viscount were members. Lord Gladstone wrote to the secretary: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow! A liar, a coward and a fool...
...quietly expelled from the Bath Club. Last week he sued for damages. After deliberating for an hour and a half, the jury awarded him ?100 ($500) "for loss of club amenities" and ?25 ($125) for injury to his reputation. Triumphant, Captain Wright at once filed suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone...
...Viscount Haldane: "Once, when a burglar in the Exchequer Court asked for an accounting against his partner, the Court clapped both into prison. A man cannot invoke his own wrong-doing against...