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...Bank of England's standoffish Governor Montagu Norman very rarely can be induced to make a speech anywhere. But he will make one this week at a London luncheon which will be attended by an assortment of bigwigs - Cabinet members, Members of Parliament, businessmen, foreign ambassadors. Later the same day there will be a frilly "sherry party" at the Savoy Hotel. The occasion for all this decorous festivity: the 100th birthday of the London Economist, a sedately liberal, authoritative British weekly which ranks with such respected and influential British newspapers as the London Times and Manchester Guardian...
Despite its homely familiarity, when money goes abroad it cloaks itself in mystery. The present generation has seen this mystery in its darkest phase. It has seen the franc bloat and the mark blow up. It has seen Montagu Norman claw his way up from devaluation to set the pound on gold at the sacred rate of $4.86½. It has seen Hjalmar Schacht counter with moneys designed to fit every purse and purpose. It has listened to the jargon of scores of theories. And it has rightly suspected that all this confusion had much to do with unemployment...
Cussers' morals do not arouse his respect, admitted Dr. Montague F. Ashley-Montagu of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College last week. But he believes that swearing is darned good physiological therapy. Not so far back, in Psychiatry, he declared...
...acceleration of its flow, and a rise in the amount of sugar in the blood, respiration is accelerated, and there is a general feeling of tension which is gradually reduced as the swearing proceeds. ... [It] is a psychological means of keeping the organism physiologically clean." Dr. Ashley-Montagu approves swearing among females. "Today, instead of swooning or breaking into tears, [women] will swear and then do something useful. It is in my view a great advance upon the old method...
English-born Dr. Ashley-Montagu's own cursing is confined to an occasional...