Word: watford
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...business man and a gardener, an international financier and an English squire. He enjoys the country life of his home ["Wall Hall''] at Watford with an affection as deep as any of his English ancestors felt for theirs. What his Hertfordshire retreat meant to him is an illustration of the abiding value of the English countryside as an unequalled recreative force...
John Pierpont Morgan presented to the Watford Peace 'Memorial Hospital (near Wall Hall, the Morgan residence at Watford, England) 130 bottles of champagne. Hospital officials were flustered; they prescribe champagne only for seasickness, and Watford is 70 mi. inland. They wrote twice to a local wine merchant, once asking him to buy the champagne outright, once to have it credited against the hospital's brandy account. The champagne remained in the hospital's cellar...
...With particular suspicion do they view Morgan, banker of Great Britain during the War, who has his London house in Grosvenor Square and his English country seat, Wall Hall, at Watford. What is more natural, they think, than . . . that the Morgan group, with its vast investments in British shipping held in vassalage to the British Government, should favor American naval surrender, perpetuating British mastery of the seas...