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...Eric Drummond, suave and able Secretary General to the League of Nations, drew a check for something over a million full-valued Swiss francs last week ($225,000). In exchange for the check, there was turned over to the League a villa on the shore of Lake Leman, the lonely Villa Bartholoni, north of Geneva, which was the residence of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson during her visit last September...
...Eric glowed for a moment with satisfaction at the thought that a new League Assembly Hall and Secretariat will shortly rise upon the Bartholoni property and on adjacent lots. Sir Eric's good humor vanished as he settled down to the vast batch of despatches which are his perennial due. Ominous developments concerning the League were occurring at London (see COMMONWEALTH, "Chamberlain Grilled"), at Berlin (see GERMANY, "Tirpitz Roused"), at Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "Houghton Stumbles...
...Scanned in their leisure moments an article, "Do We Need a Mussolini?" contributed to the Sunday Pictorial by Lord Rothermere, its founder, who opined that he could think of three Englishmen of the calibre of II Benito: 1) The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (TIME, March 1, BUSINESS), Chairman of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company and Allied Companies, First Lord of the British Admiralty (1917-18); 2) The Rt. Hon. Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank, First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11); 3) Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
Divorced. Ben Hecht, 36, famed Manhattan-born Chicago author-journalist (Eric Dorn, Humpty Dumpty), by the former Marie Armstrong, critic, who was granted $3,500 a year alimony and the custody of their nine-year-old daughter; in Chicago...
Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...