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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber's most important act, the new Bank of France set-up was its sharpest stab of lèse majeste against the entrenched French ruling class. Abolished henceforth are the Regents elected by the 200 biggest stockholders representing the so-called "200 Families." Instead, various branches of the Government appoint 16 Regents, the savings banks another, the Bank's employes "secretly elect" still another and two Regents are chosen by all the Bank's 40,000 stockholders, each having one vote, regardless of his holdings...
...training, tradition and conviction Will Clayton is a free trader. Any meddling with the economic machine is, to him, the supreme sin. Before the Bankhead Act] before the AAA crop reduction program, before cotton loans were instituted, before the Hoover Farm Board started to thrash around in the futures markets, Will Clay ton's favorite hate was the tariff. Said he, when ploughing-under was rampant: "There is only one means of preserving a correct balance between supply and demand in a great world commodity like cotton, and that is through the corrective influences of competitive price levels established...
Last week from Madison, Wis. the shadow of Ohio's late Senator John Sherman spread darkly across 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, 58 oilmen and three oil trade journals. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act they were all criminally indicted by a Federal grand jury for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935, and continuing to date, to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in interstate commerce, mainly in ten States of the Middle West...
...Commerce, and Warren C. Platt, publisher of Platt's Oilgram and National Petroleum News.* To oilmen the sole surprise was that the Government had decided to use for the first time in a big case its power to conduct a criminal rather than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that complaints of oil price-fixing had been received, that at President Roosevelt's express request the Department of Justice would investigate. Three months ago a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, has since examined more than 100 witnesses...
...Future of Marriage in Western Civilization develops his theory that marriage, which he defined in an earlier volume as "a more or less durable connection between male and female, lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of offspring," is fundamental in human society, growing out of the necessities of life in primitive and modern communities. This theory brings him into opposition with such writers as Briffault and Iwan Bloch, who have maintained that primitive societies were promiscuous and that the family, as a relatively recent development in human society, will eventually disappear. Dr. Westermarck says that...