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According to the Journal of Commerce those re-discount reductions were the result of the recent visit with Governor Benjamin Strong (the New York Federal Reserve Bank) of Governor Montagu Norman (the Bank of England) Deputy Governor Charles Rist (the Bank of France)' and Dr. Hjalmar Schact (head of the German Reichsbank) (TIME, July 11). Those visitors went with Governor Strong to Washington for a conference with members of the Federal Reserve Board...
...Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is most picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
...galleries were packed with peers; Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England and many another stalwart banker and businessman gave anxious heed to the chancellor's words. The Treasury, he announced, faced a deficit of $182,500,000 on last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf...
Married. The Hon. Ivor Montagu, 22, third son of wealthy Jewish banker, Lord Swaythling, head of Samuel Montagu & Co.; to Typist Eileen Hellstern, daughter of a surgical shoemaker; secretly, in London...
...Were informed that 270;000 of the 1,000,000 miners called on strike have drifted back to work. During the week, efforts to reach a compromise between miners and owners were begun through private channels by both Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and Chairman Arthur Pugh of the Trades Union Council...