Word: montagues
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...might have stepped out of the frame Of the portrait of the most handsome courtier who ever graced the court of a queen." Thus has Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden described the Empire's most important bachelor, potent patrician Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...cap?a sort of financial Queen Victoria. Her age is 235. In the bustling City of London she has been affectionately called for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street." In all her life she has never kept a favorite as long as the nine years she has kept Montagu Collet Norman. Courtier Norman was defending his Old Lady against concerted attacks on her gold reserve?especially against the attacks of ungallant Neighbor France...
...Bank of England, in his quiet sanctum, Montagu Collet Norman sat one morning last week, and probably he stroked in anxious meditation his courtly Vandyke beard. Invisibly the battle of gold was on. It was a question whether to call out the ordinary reserves?whether to raise the rediscount rate of the Bank of England...
After lunch Mum Scot MacDonald sat down to an even more closely hushed conference with Governor of the Bank of England Montagu Collet Norman and Wall Street's dynamic, cosmopolitan Thomas William Lamont...
...high seas last week was Montagu Collet Norman, governor of the Bank of England. On his ship, the Aquitania, was $7,500,000 in gold coming from the Bank of England to American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Manhattan bank...