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...Premier Edouard Herriot can see the brighter side of things more easily than men as thin as Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...capacity as economic adviser, Professor Sprague has been in constant touch with financial developments on the Continent, and has been associated with Sir Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, during the critical months when that country was forced to drop the gold standard. In addition to his advisory work he has interested himself in the coordination of the various departments of the Bank...
...gangplank walked a handsome, fox-bearded gentleman with a black slouch hat and the mysterious manner of the Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits to the U. S. are always secretive. They almost always preface international financial developments...
...weeks after ... I vacated the office of Prime Minister . . . Mr. Bonar Law, who succeeded me, sent Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. Montagu Norman to the United States in January 1923 to open negotiations for the funding of the British debt...
...worse team could have been chosen. Mr. Montagu Norman [today Governor of the Bank of England], is the high priest of the golden calf [i. e. the Gold Standard] and his main preoccupation was to keep his idol burnished and supreme in the pantheon of commerce. In his honest view it was the only god to lead the nation out of the wilderness. Such a person was a dangerous counsellor for a man of Mr. Baldwin's equipment...