Word: montagues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the men & women the book deals with: the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough ("the courtliest man of his generation had married its most abusive virago"); Robert Walpole ("a great spoke in the Philistine wheel and a heavy stone in the capitalist edifice"); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ("her personality, though it had its inconveniences while she lived, is exactly the sort that is welcomed in the dead"); John Wesley (who "was that fascinating type of fanatic-the 'rational' one ... 'I think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would...
...final accolade came to Britain's No. 1 economist, John Maynard Keynes, last week. Bank of England shareholders elected him a director, to succeed the late Lord Stamp. Orthodox oldtimer Montagu Norman, the Bank's Governor, thus played a sly old English trick: he swallowed his opposition. Monty, just turned 70, also waived in his own favor the Bank's unwritten rule requiring directors to retire at 70, remained in office...
With Churchill were the Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man whose refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound...
Through U.S. financial circles last week a rumor whispered that arch-conservative Montagu Norman was finally being eased out of the governorship of the Bank of England which he has held for 21 years. Reported reasons: 1) his close associations with England's appeasement group; 2) his unwillingness to subordinate finance-as-usual to war effort...
...another point Ashley-Montagu and Hrdlicka presented divergent evidence to reach an important agreement: Hrdlicka declared the evidence from old bones and pots is now conclusive that the long-disputed theory that the American Indians came from Asia via Bering Strait is indeed correct. Ashley-Montagu added evidence of a new sort: analysis of blood types...