Business: Able U. S. Men

U. S. stockholders in British General Electric Co., Ltd., last week congratulated themselves upon the brains & brawn of the two representatives whom they had last month (TIME, April 1) sent to London. For well had Commissioners Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne and Herbert Bayard Swope performed their duties. True, Commissioner Chadbourne had been taken with a chill, and both Commissioners Chadbourne & Swope had excursioned to Paris, there to witness a contemporary demonstration of the ancient truth that one horse can run faster than another. But between chills, thrills, the U. S. representatives had...

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