Word: normans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World Bank," a Swiss corporation owned and operated by the central banks of the powers and a consortium of U. S. banks, keeps no gold in its modest headquarters at Basle, instead maintains deposits with the member banks, one of them the privately operated Bank of England. Goateed Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England and a director of the B.I.S., had no other course than to return the gold to the B.I.S. Presumably the Czech National Bank's management will have no course other than to do its Nazi masters' bidding, call home the gold from...
...slogan of most opposition parties in Europe might well be the battle cry that punsters once pinned on U. S. Socialist Norman Thomas: "Cast away your votes and follow me!" Oppositionists are purged in Russia, shot in Germany, castor-oiled in Italy, executed in Spain, while in most of Central Europe their continued existence is dependent upon the utter impossibility of their ever winning an election. Last week two big opposition party congresses -Labor in England (see p. 24) and Socialist in France-demonstrated that even in Europe's democracies, where oppositionists are not considered criminals, enemies...
...Norman D. Blotner...
...Norman H. Whitehead...
...correspondent, however, matched the eloquence of the Toronto Globe and Mail's, Royd Beamish, who wrote of the Royal Banquet at Quebec: " 'Neath the turreted roof of a Norman castle, where once the Canada of long ago had its seat of Government, the King and Queen had dined [from the breasts of 2,000 snowbirds]. . . . The wine glasses were filled and Lieutenant-Governor Patenaude stood to propose the age-old toast, heard nightly across one-fourth the globe: 'Gentlemen, the King.' . . . From some far corner of that spacious ballroom a strong male voice sounded, rich...