Word: montague
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cook & Son 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...
Vanishment. One person who could have said whether U. S. pressure was brought to bear or not was fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Last week he disappeared completely. He was not in Quebec, where he was supposed to be, nor was he in Ottawa or Montreal. News-hounds could not flush his grey brush in New York or Washington...
...Montagu Norman remained in quiet Quebec, kept himself from being seen or heard. If he was conferring with Wall Street bankers, if he was borrowing more money for Britain, no word of it leaked to the Press. In the midst of the excitement, Secretary Andrew W. Mellon of the U. S. Treasury reappeared on the international scene by disembarking from the Conte Biancamano at New York. A flashlight bulb exploded almost in his face...
...ability of Mr. Montagu Norman to remain in active control of the Bank of England is being discussed somewhat anxiously. The governor has been reported as being very seriously exhausted, especially since the last session of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, where he was prevented from taking much part in the discussions, due to fatigue...
...banker with the Mephistophelian beard, Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England, wrote a private letter to Governor Clément Moret of the Bank of France several months...