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When the Duke of Manchester's second wife, Kathleen Ethel Dawes Montagu, sued through the estate's trustees to get the Manchester jewels, furs and laces from his first wife Helena Zimmerman Montagu, the florid Duke told British reporters. "My trouble is that I've been a mug, always too trustful and willing...
...Bausch (& Lomb), President William G, Stuber of Eastman Kodak Co., onetime President Charles Doran of Sperry Gyroscope Co., John Hays Hammond, Packer Edward A. Cudahy Jr., Princess Erik of Denmark, Banker Albert E. Nettleton, Louis B. Kuppenheimer (clothes), Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan (Chicago's Rush Medical College), Sir Montagu 6 Lady Allan of Montreal...
...Married. Montagu Collet Norman, 61, longtime (since 1920) Governor of the Bank of England; and Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens Worsthorne, 33, divorced welfare worker, member of the London County Council, granddaughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon; furtively, day after announcement of engagement; in London at the dingy Chelsea Registry Office...
White Tags. Without ceremony of any sort and in the notable absence of Montagu Collet Norman, fox-bearded Governor of the Bank of England, an emissary from Mr. Norman's office picked up a handful of white tags and an order for 11,500 gold bars, took an elevator down 60 ft. to the Old Lady's bullion vaults. With him went an ordinary detail of scarlet-coated British guardsmen wearing bearskin hats and carrying Army rifles with fixed bayonets...
...became interested in the case when 30 rifles were found aboard the Carma. But the murdering slug came from none of these weapons. One of the ship's company, all of whom signed on as crew when harbor officials declared the Carma unseaworthy, was Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, self-styled "remittance man," second son of the Duke of Manchester. He admitted having a .38 calibre revolver. He said he had lent it to a friend who had lent it to a friend. Lord Edward was taken into custody. So were the other 14 adventurers, eight of them women...