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...privately-owned Bank of France looks and smells like a miser's snuggery. Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper. Their beloved master since 1930, M. Clement Moret, the National Tightwad and, as such, a national hero, had just been kicked upstairs from Governor of the Bank of France to Honorary Governor. He was going to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and soon a lesser tightwad would replace him, hélas. To the fusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tightwad Up & Out | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...banker with the Mephistophelian beard, Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England, wrote a private letter to Governor Clément Moret of the Bank of France several months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ein' Feste Burg | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...stockholders of the Bank of France had their annual meeting and heard a speech on this same subject from their Governor Clément Moret. Avoiding the subject of rising retail prices, Governor Moret admitted that the Bank of France was ready to lend from her overflowing vaults to any foreign country that offered the necessary guarantees. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Duty | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

After a few words on the World Depression, which France is beginning to feel slightly-M. Moret prefers the phrase "attenuated prosperity''-he said sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Duty | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...necessary steps by the central banks." This amounted to saying that if things do not look up within 30 days five men will be largely to blame: Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board (U. S.). Governor Clement Moret of the Bank of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: D'Abernon On Gold | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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