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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Macaronies & Misery | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: New Face for Old Lady | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home from the Sea | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Skids for Montagu Norman? | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: April Pilgrimages | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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