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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hostile to a Habsburg restoration in Hungary!" abruptly announced Prime Minister Juliu Maniu of Rumania last week. Meanwhile the Prime Minister of Hungary, brusque Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen was packing up for a visit to London, but found time to dictate a retort published by the Budapest Pesti Hirlap in which he said: ''All talk about a personal union of Hungary with Rumania under the crown of King Carol II is nonsense-utter nonsense...
Plainly the two statesmen were on each other's nerves. The Count's visit to England is reputedly to convince James Ramsay MacDonald that the legitimate heir to the throne of Hungary, famed Archduke Otto ("Little Otto") of Habsburg must and should be restored when he reaches his majority next...
...time to attend to his far-flung business interests, 3) that he must not be expected to become "involved in any routine work that would preclude my absence from the university for travel," 4) that he "would not feel justified in accepting any such executive position" unless he could count upon the assistance of Trustee Charles Day, Philadelphia engineer. All these provisos were accepted and Pennsylvanians felt they would get a sound business administration...
Last week the utility interests of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance, crossed the. English Channel and arrived in the British Isles. Their advent was signalized by the formation of British & International Utilities, Ltd., a corporation designed to acquire stocks in leading utilities of the British Isles and the British Empire. Control of this company was shared by the Volpi-formed Compagnie Italo Belge pour Enterprises d'Electricité et d'Utilité Publique, commonly known as Cibe, and by Dawnay, Day & Co., Ltd., London merchant bankers. Count Volpi is chairman; Lord...
British & International Utilities, Ltd., is of particular importance to U. S. utility men because of the U. S. interests associated with Volpi enterprises. In the course of expanding from the north-Italian district in which, in 1904, he organized his first utility company, Count Volpi became associated with Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, whose Italian Superpower Co. has a large interest in Adriatic Electric Co., parent Volpi company. In February (TIME, Feb. 17) Count Volpi together with the Mitchell, Bonbright and Field, Glore (Chicago) interests, organized European Electric Corp., Ltd., utility investment company with a Canadian incorporation and trans-Atlantic objectives. British...