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...Collet, Economic Stabilizer, sadly admit ted as much last week. He announced a new subsidy program designed to get more coffee into the U.S. during the next three months. Said he: U.S. coffee supplies are so short that a subsidy is "the only alternative either to a return to rationing or to a price increase to consumers of 5^ or more per pound of roasted coffee." Thus the RFC will pay about $25,000,-ooo to Latin American growers, at the rate of 3^ a pound, for all coffee (up to 6,000,000 Ibs.) sold to the U.S. between...
...added: "England was conquered twice in its history, once by William the Norman in 1066, and again by Montagu the Norman in 1931." (Until 1944, Montagu Collet Norman was Governor of the Bank...
...world powers. In the 19th Century, the pound sterling, under the bank's leadership, became a universal currency - a circumstance shattered by World War I which broke up the gold standard, and left England debt-ridden. In the post-World War I period, under recently-retired Governor Montagu Collet Norman, it reestablished the gold standard for six years, thereafter became a virtual adjunct of the British Treasury...
...streamed into the large reception room, sat staring at pictures of Jim Farley, John Garner, and Garner and Truman, while they waited to pump the Senator's hand. All afternoon he kept jumping up to answer the telephone in the next-door office of Federal Judge John Caskie Collet. There is no telephone in the Truman office-the Senator says it's an unnecessary expense...
Four years later the reign ebbed. Last week, after a quarter of a century in which he dominated every move of the world's greatest banking institution, Montagu Collet Norman, 73, resigned the Governorship of the Bank of England, and prepared to go into permanent retirement...