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White Tags. Without ceremony of any sort and in the notable absence of Montagu Collet Norman, fox-bearded Governor of the Bank of England, an emissary from Mr. Norman's office picked up a handful of white tags and an order for 11,500 gold bars, took an elevator down 60 ft. to the Old Lady's bullion vaults. With him went an ordinary detail of scarlet-coated British guardsmen wearing bearskin hats and carrying Army rifles with fixed bayonets...
...Premier Edouard Herriot can see the brighter side of things more easily than men as thin as Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...walked a handsome, fox-bearded gentleman with a black slouch hat and the mysterious manner of the Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits to the U. S. are always secretive. They almost always preface international financial developments of the greatest...
Almost the only important living British painter not represented at Pittsburgh last week was Augustus John who entered the week's news by finishing, after three years of hastily snatched sittings, a portrait of fox-bearded Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. Between the time the face was sketched in charcoal and the final varnish was applied Governor Norman's beard changed from grey to white...
...circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement that the fall of the pound had upped travel costs to Britons 20%, advised holidays at British resorts, cruises on British ships where a pound is still a pound. Norman Home, The pound being where it is, can bearded Montagu Collet Norman, eleven times Governor of the Bank of England (TIME, May 4), continue to hold that helm? Mr. Norman was strangely in Canada just before the pound was taken off gold (TIME, Sept. 28). He returned secretively to London via Liverpool last week, slipping off the S. S. Duchess of Bedford...