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President of the Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. is Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger, potent internationalist, chairman of the great Anglo-French banking firm of Erlangers, Ltd., naturalized Briton. Enthusiastic fellow supporters include H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born London department store tycoon, and Sir William Bull, senior partner of Bull and Bull, eloquent solicitors. They were pleased but cautious at last week's report. Beside the obvious opposition of cross-Channel steamship companies, other timorous Tories like Lord Ebbisham, the Channel tunnel must still be approved by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
Such Men are Dangerous (Fox). A Sunday-supplement story, taking one of its angles from the disappearance of Belgian Tycoon Alfred Loewenstein from his plane two years ago, has a rich man pretending to be dead in order to assume a new identity. To humiliate his wife for not loving him the way he is, he wants to make her love him as somebody else. A surgeon changes him from a crook-shouldered, gross, bearded, bespectacled, wedge-nosed fellow, to a straight, handsome cineman-to the likeness in fact, of Warner Baxter, who plays the role in both guises. Elinor...
...James Louis Kraft, cheese tycoon, went news both profitable and philanthropic last week. His Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. used to dump away yearly thousands of gallons of whey (the watery part of milk left after the curds are removed) or return it to farmers for hog wash. That whey contains most of the milk minerals. To make money from this whey Mr. Kraft some time ago gave Rutgers University funds for research. Rutgers fellows developed a powdered whey which chicken farmers use to keep parasites from their fowls. A year ago Kraft developed Velveeta, a mixture of cheese and whey...
...With quick and courteous unanimity, the Senate approved such a resolution. Next day Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Robert Marion La Follette rushed upon the Senate floor demanding withdrawal of the Senate's approval of Mr. Stone. The La Follette objection: Mr. Stone is a public utility tycoon...
...while no Illini has been a U. S. President or tycoon of the first magnitude, he will learn to share alumnal pride in j such figures as President Samuel Wesley Stratton of M.I.T., who took his B.S. at Illinois; Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois; Motormaker Ray Graham...