Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having heard Professor Young yesterday on the London money market I am moved to hear Professor Gay in Harvard 1 at 9 o'clock this morning in his Economics 2 lecture. For he will lecture on the development of money and banking in England before 1800. This was admittedly not the great period of such institutions, but it may be considered as interesting as any. The growth of usury until the Church sanctioned it is a story of constant struggle between bankrupt monarchs and the money lenders whom they could threaten...
...horizon was deemed so clear that President Herriot of the Chamber departed on a visit to Lyons, of which city he is Mayor. The President of the Republic announced his intention of leaving Paris for a few days to open the Lyons Spring Fair. Finance Minister Doumer cabled to London and proposed to resume the Franco-British debt negotiations. An almost ominous optimism prevailed...
English biographical work), perhaps the greatest "late Victorian" authority on the life of Shakespeare, author of a biography of Edward VII (by request of George V) and of a fiercely criticized biography of Queen Victoria; at London. It was at the suggestion of the great Dr. Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford, that he altered his original name "Solomon Lazarus" to "Sidney Lee" (in order to attain literary eminence more easily...
...Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, 71, designer of the ill fated Titanic, friend of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he visited recently at Doorn (TIME, Nov. 30, GERMANY), retired General Manager of the great Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff, created a member of the Privy Council by Edward VII; at London, after prophesying his death some weeks ago and ordering that the Merry Widow Waltz be played at his funeral...
Died. William Wallace Crapo, 95, "oldest ex-Congressman," "first citizen of New Bedford (Mass.)," famed lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus...