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...chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping. For $35,000,000 I. M. M. tossed it out to Lord Kylsant's Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (chartered by Queen Victoria) in 1926. After towering Lord Kylsant ("Lord of the Seven Seas") was convicted of selling Royal Mail stock with a fraudulent prospectus, White Star bulked large in the scrambled affairs of fallen Royal Mail. Still owed...
...blood, comes from the same family as Playwright Owen Davis. Her father, the late Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, was on Punch's editorial staff, was better known as one of England's mightiest oars. Aged 31, Authoress Lehmann is married to Arlist Wogan Phillips, nephew of towering Lord Kylsant who spent the past year in jail for malfeasance in connection with the affairs of the Royal Mail Line (TIME, Aug. 12, 1931 et seq.). Like Infant James she lisped in numbers, still prefers verse to prose but is refreshingly reticent about publishing her verses...
From Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, emerged Convict No. 2,715 to become again Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen. His sentence of one year, for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus, had begun last November, was shortened for good behavior. The towering baron?he is 6 ft. 7 in. long but last week looked bowed and broken? was met by Lady Kylsant who escorted him by motor first to their May fair home, thence to their Welsh estate at Coomb Llangain, Carmarthen, where loyal villagers had erected a laurel arch. Some 40 villagers hooked ropes to His Lord-ship...
...Mitchell, general manager of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., succeeded jailed Lord Kylsant as chairman. No spectacular figure is the new chairman. He entered the company as a junior clerk 39 years ago. His father was with Royal Mail 50 years before...
...Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, former chairman of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. sentenced to jail for a year for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus (TIME, Nov. 16), refused to eat or take exercise, was placed in an observation cell...