Word: montague
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Excited book-boomers have compared this unusual biography to James Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
...Treasury Woodin was an overnight guest at Hyde Park. He assured newshawks that currency inflation was not even being contemplated at present. Another Presidential visitor was Budget Director Douglas who was instructed to keep regular 1935 government costs below $2,500,000,000. A third caller was Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, escorted by Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Last week Britain ceased pegging the pound. ¶To speed up his National Recovery Program President Roosevelt directed R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Jones to plan a temporary extension of Federal credit through...
...Fund, meeting something too big for it to handle, had stepped aside to let the pound again "seek its natural level." What that might be none knew, but at 81¾ francs the pound was only 1¼ francs above its all-time low. This week fox-bearded Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, having pleasantly enjoyed himself at Bar Harbor, Me., was to have an interview with President Roosevelt at the suggestion of Governor George Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Britons wondered, like Americans, exactly where their currency was headed, saw their pound...
...prospect of a share in restored prosperity. ... It will be bitterly lost if it is lost through the shortsightedness and practical shortcoming in the attitude of other countries toward the President's experiment." Two days later the Governor of the Bank of England, fox-bearded, deflationist Montagu Collet Norman, served notice on his entire staff that their pay will be cut 10% next March and cut thereafter every March for the next three years. Thus, by implication, Governor Norman set himself more strongly than ever against a policy of British price & wage raising. Indignant clerks in the Bank...
...ignored Australia? By the time newshawks seriously put that question Uncle Henry was already a wheat hero, cackling to everyone his best anecdotes about the days when President Wilson sent him as Wartime Ambassador to Turkey and such yarns as the one about the time he caught Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional ?1,000,000 to Mr. Morgenthau's Greek Refugee Settlement Commission until reminded that the Greek Government could withdraw a ?2,000,000 gold deposit from the Bank...