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...Morgan hand in a velvet glove which directs a fiscal juggernaut capable of thun dering over mere business brontosauri. Il Magnifico in all his purple pride never had to do with a loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars in 1915. It is said that the Allies wanted to borrow a round billion at that time; but Mr. Morgan led the British fiscal representative, Lord Reading, into his sanctum, and thoughtfully observed: "Reading, I wouldn't ask a billion if I were...
...remarkable compendium of little-known facts and strange information, gathering up all stray notes about Witch history in England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the height of the delusion in the Seventeenth Century...
Historically it is of record that the tunnel project, first officially embodied in the Anglo-French protocol of May 3, 1875, has repeatedly been blocked by British fear of a subaqueous invasion, and the Englishman's jealous love of his "splendid isolation." Today however even the most insularly minded are beginning to see that invasion from the skies is the real danger and that a channel tunnel would be vastly advantageous to British commerce in time of peace and easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last...
Newspapers. Anglo-Foreign Newspapers Ltd., a $15,000,000 holding company was formed last week in London, to acquire a group of British and continental newspapers. Chairman Harry S. Home will scout for French and German dailies. Vice-chairman Sir Robert Donald, onetime editor of the Daily Chronicle, will investigate possible British acquisitions...
Then, at last. Bishop Manning began to be less diplomatic. When the Anglo-Catholic Congress met in Manhattan last fall he went openly to preside over it. That congress was so "high" that it looked to some quite Romish?what with masses, and talk of the rosary, and of prayer for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Broad-churchmen were affronted...