Business: Gentlemen's Agreement

W1111am Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, is a spruce widower of 44 who sports a mustache arid has a huge fortune founded upon the British iron and steel industry. Fourteen years ago the Earl of Dudley arrived in the U. S. as equerry to the Prince of Wales. Two years ago the Earl visited the U. S. in a futile attempt to get the U. S. steel industry to join the European Steel Cartel. Last week the Earl of Dudley once more sailed into New York Harbor on the same errand.

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