Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Every courtier must have his queen, and Bachelor Norman's is a fussy old lady in a mythical lace 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...
...policies which are really one have been the guiding principles of Governor Norman for the past nine years: 1) Deflation of pound sterling after the Wartime period of inflation; 2) absolute maintenance of the pound on a gold basis once deflation was achieved (TIME, May 4, 1925). Under Governor Norman's aegis a gold reserve of �150,000,000, in the vaults of the Bank of England, was inaugurated, on the advice of the Cunliff Currency Commission that such a reserve was "desirable" (i. e. indispensable in the Commission's opinion) if the gold parity of the pound...
...Clinton Norman Howard, Chairman of the National United Committee for Law Enforcement,* at a W. C. T. U. meeting at Round Lake, N. Y.: "The people will not let their constitution be wickershamed into a squatter sovereignty hodgepodge. . . . Maryland, Wisconsin and New York are where South Carolina was in the conflict against the abolition of slavery. . . . They are the copperhead and slacker states and are more culpable in time of peace than any slacker citizen in time...
Among the 99 were Albert Ottinger, defeated Republican candidate for New York's governorship; Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the pinko-liberal U. S. Nation; Norman C. Chambers, famed pneumatic toolman; Miss Rosemary Bauer, Chicago debutante, Liquid Carbonic heiress; Mrs. Mabel S. Ingalls, Manhattan socialite, niece of John Pierpont Morgan...