The Glass House
One of Dyason’s early ventures into underwriting was floating V. Leonard Kanevsky Pty Ltd in 1919. Leonard Kanevsky had arrived in Australia in 1912, a refugee via England from Tsarist Russia where he had been imprisoned for his politics. He was a moderate socialist and a follower of Alexander Kerensky who was later minister for […]
Thobbery
As I discovered when I went to look up the meaning of ‘thobbery’, after encountering it in Dyason’ writing, the word seems to have come back into use after disappearing for the best part of a century. Its revival now, at a time when it is increasingly difficult to distinguish the true from the false […]