Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank charter received cable-grams from Governor Émile Moreau of the Bank of France. In the case of the Allied Powers, M. Moreau was told whom to invite by the governors of the respective banks of issue who all chose financiers from within their own organizations. Thus keen, patrician Montagu Collet Nor:nan, Governor of the Bank of England, chose a famed member of its board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests throughout ; Asia, is chairman of :the Hongkong & Shanghai...
Fear of being mobbed by rowdy agents of the Nationalist Government with which he is out of sympathy, has long since made patrician Scholar Hu extremely careful of his delicate, parchment-like skin. For months he has spent his studious nights in the well guarded foreign quarter of Shanghai, venturing out only by day to the suburb of Woosung where he is president of a private college called the China National Institute. Recently, however, Dr. Hu, daring much, contributed to the leading Chinese intellectual review, the monthly Crescent Moon, three articles flaying the Nationalist Government. Last week Nationalist's militaristic...
...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...
...Keystone Patrician in Service. The biggest plane in this country is the Keystone Patrician, an 18 passenger. This spring it hopped between the coasts and borders, proving its stamina in all sorts of weather. Last week it went into its first regular passenger service, on the Colonial Airways New York-Boston run. Fare...
...Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...