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...Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1937 was the president of the British League of Nations Union (1 Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 2 the Earl of Bewdley, 3 Sir Thomas Inskip, 4 Walter Runciman, 5 Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw...
Besides Prall, Harvard teachers on the executive council of the Cambridge Union of Teachers include Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, Earl G. Latham '31, instructor in Government, Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, Earl G. Mims, instructor in Government, Erbest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English, and Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor in Economics...
W1111am Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, is a spruce widower of 44 who sports a mustache arid has a huge fortune founded upon the British iron and steel industry. Fourteen years ago the Earl of Dudley arrived in the U. S. as equerry to the Prince of Wales. Two years ago the Earl visited the U. S. in a futile attempt to get the U. S. steel industry to join the European Steel Cartel. Last week the Earl of Dudley once more sailed into New York Harbor on the same errand...
...first eleven months of 1937 U. S. iron & steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted to 2,337,970 gross tons against 1,040,630 for the first eleven months last year. Hence the arrival last week of the Earl of Dudley and a committee including Hector Dieudonne, director general of Comptoir Metallurgique Luxembourgeois, sales organization of the cartel...
Last year, however, the big U. S. steel companies are supposed to have made a "gentlemen's agreement" with the cartel not to undersell them abroad. Last week when the Earl of Dudley arrived it was generally assumed that if he could not wangle actual U. S. participation in the cartel he would try to get the big steel concerns to force the little ones now engaged in foreign dumping to join in the "gentlemen's agreement." Last week the only fact that emerged from a great cloud of secrecy was that the Earl would do his negotiating...