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...Within fifteen years he was in London, prosperous, giving away his sketches and landscapes, dividing the court favor with the American West and that of the city with Reynolds. Among others he painted, sometimes with brushes on sticks six feet long, Sheridan, Burke, Johnson, Franklin, Canning, Lady Montagu, Clive, and Blackstone. Like his more than 300 paintings his was a warm personality--lively, generous, natural...
...anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry ($2), including a translation of a famed essay by Jean Cocteau on the Painter Chirico, four good poems by Wallace Stevens on the Idea of Man, suave Surrealist stories by Montagu O'Reilly, fantasies by Henry Miller, incorrigible author of the more-than-Rabelaisian Tropic of Cancer...
...Sons on London's St. Swithin's Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining companies, banks and banking houses, speculators, arbitragers. On Saturdays the meetings open...
...world's mounting gold output disturbed even the august assembly of the Bank for International Settlements meeting last week in Basle, Switzerland. On hand were such central banking potentates as Britain's Montagu Norman, Germany's Hjalmar Schacht, France's Emile Labeyrie. Representing the U. S. was Vice President Samuel A. Welldon of Manhattan's First National Bank...
...full force, jam-packed the House so thickly that Laborite M.P. Richard Gibson had to take refuge in one of the galleries with a host of peers, foreign diplomats and other bigwigs, including the famed economist Sir Josiah Stamp and Bank of England's eccentric Governor Montagu Norman. So staggering was the Budget speech which all were keyed up to hear that Montagu Norman was reported next day to have "looked bewildered as if he could not follow or believe what he heard...