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...England. Old ladies should not attempt to vie with ironmasters in their own field, yet last week the Bank of England, for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," prepared to take control of a large part of England's iron and steel industry. Bank Governor Montagu Collet Norman, famed for his keen maneuvers on the complex field of international exchange, prepared for the new role of Steel...
...Canada. Canada has no central bank, no Montagu Norman, but it has many able financiers. During the past year these have labored on the same problem?reviving the iron and steel industry. Last week, their plans approved, the mechanism of a tremendous reorganization stirred...
...budget afternoon last week the great leaders of British banking, shipping and industry left their offices and jostled each other in the distinguished visitors' gallery of the House, or the Peers' gallery if their rank entitled them to that eminence. Noticed in the distinguished jam was Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and in the packed Peers' gallery Baron Kylsant, chairman of the Royal Mail Line, White Star Line and associated companies, largest shipping combine on earth...
Reelected. Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, to be Governor of the Bank of England for the eleventh consecutive year...
...translation of the Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount, but realizing the hopelessness of his getting married, he transferred his affections to food. His most famed affair (purely conversational, literary) was with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Says Biographer Sitwell: "Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them to stay to supper?they had supped; to drink?they preferred talk. The Dean then...