Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Eric D. Maclagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current year will give the eighth in a series of lectures on Italian Sculpture on Wednesday evening, February 29, in the New Lecture Hall. The two remaining lectures in the course, on "The Sixteenth Century" and "Bernini and the Seventeenth Century" will be given on March 7 and March 14 respectively...
Second, for London: U. S. loans to Australia help sterling to maintain itself at par, for when dollars flow outward towards the Antipodes gold sovereigns may hold the fort in London City...
Fourth, and of paramount importance to Wall Street, London, and Australia alike: U. S. loans to the British Continent of the South Pacific, now at. a total of over $200,000,000, give the three parties a community of political interest in case of war on the Pacific; doubtless, in case of emergency, this tie would play its diplomatic role in preventing a conflict. It is by such co-operation between the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank that great political ends are achieved...
This was the first French offering since the U. S. State Department removed its ban on French industrial financing. Theorists, comparing current prices for French bonds in New York, London, Amsterdam, Basel, had guessed that French business would have to pay about 6.10% interest on new borrowings. But out came the bankers with Paris-Orleans Railroad bonds yielding only 5.75% and the public quickly devoured them. Proof was here that bankers and public have a better opinion of French credit than statisticians...
Friends staked their "Dis" to a country manor, terraced. "My dear lady, you cannot have a terrace without peacocks!"?this to his adored wife, whom Author Maurois variously records as 15, 12, 14 years his senior. Affectionate, loyal, her garrulous naivete was the joke of London. In a conversation about Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) she asked his address to invite him to dinner. But her cultured husband remembered: "She believed in me when men despised...