Word: montagues
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...Duke of Manchester's erratic second son has set out to join the French Foreign Legion. The first time, last summer, he got as far as the Dunkirk recruiting office before changing his mind, decided to open a hot-dog stand at Maidenhead. "I am Lord Edward Montagu. I want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train with soap and toothbrush...
...kerosene-lit apartment, as ex-Governor Moret packed up to leave last week, he found a crinkled prediction penned to him in high excitement four years ago by fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman who is now in his 15th year as Governor of the Bank of England. "Unless drastic measures are taken to save it, the capitalist system throughout the civilized world will be wrecked within a year," wrote Governor Norman to Governor Moret in 1931. "I should like this prediction to be filed for future reference...
...tightly as he fills his own bulging vest does Sir Josiah Charles Stamp fill his various important posts in London. As a Director of the Bank of England, this pink and pleasant knight is second only in reputation to Montagu Norman. He is also chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a colonel of the Royal Engineers, general treasurer of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and a much sought-after lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge...
Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, adventuresome second son of the Duke of Manchester, set up business in a hot-dog stand at Maidenhead, England, cleared $20 in 24 hours...
Germany has been saved so often by her foreign creditors at the last moment that these International Bankers were the subject of speculation last week. Was there another rescue in them? In London the staid Financial News inferred from the presence in Manhattan last week of fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, that he might be organizing a rescue party. After the Nazi assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss (see p. 17). British editors raised a chorus of demands that Germany be left to her fate...