Word: kylsant
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...absurd," spluttered Sir John Simon, "to think that they were guinea pigs who left Lord Kylsant to do what he liked and merely drew their directors' fees...
...Lord Kylsant insisted that the other directors were not guinea pigs, thus implying that if he was guilty, so were they. "If the court thinks the five gentlemen of the experience of my colleagues never asked any questions and knew nothing it is quite wrong...
...jury was out three hours, found Lord Kylsant innocent of presenting false financial statements, guilty of issuing a fraudulent prospectus. Mumbled the judge in a voice so low that it could scarcely be heard...
Still wearing his long black coat and his high silk hat, Sir Owen Cosby Philipps Baron Kylsant straightway motored to Wormwood Scrubs, passed through the jail doors. Newshawks had scarcely finished writing of what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...
...which swept Scot MacDonald into office, not once but several times the support of Liberal Lloyd George has been all that has kept the Laborite Government in office. Recently Liberal oxen have galled under the Lloyd George yoke. Sir John Simon, busy last week in the defense of Lord Kylsant (see p. 17), left the party in disgust, was sped on his way by the hot little Welshman as follows...