For two years handsome. 73-year-old Sir Stephen Henry Molyneux Killik. London Alderman, stockbroker, author and Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, has known that last week he would either be dead or Lord Mayor-elect of that square mile of London called "The City." By venerable tradition the Senior Alderman must be elected Lord Mayor, provided he has served one year as Sheriff of London.
For years, however, the Aldermanic candidates for Sheriff, prohibited by equally venerable tradition from campaigning for office, lost the election. In 1922 Stephen Killik, then neither knight nor...
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